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10 December 2007 Military News

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  • DoD Announces Recruiting and Retention Numbers for November 2007 10 Dec 2007 -- The Department of Defense announced today its recruiting and retention statistics for the active and Reserve components for the month of November.
  • Active, Reserve Components Meet November Recruiting Goals AFPS 10 Dec 2007 -- All military components met their recruiting goals in November, Defense Department officials said here yesterday.
  • NASSG Completes First Phase of COMPTUEX Navy NewsStand 10 Dec 2007 -- The Nassau Strike Group (NASSG) wrapped up the first phase of its Composite Unit Training Exercise (COMPTUEX) on Dec. 7, allowing the strike group to begin preparations on the second, and final, phase of training.
  • NASSG Tests Medical Readiness During COMPTUEX Navy NewsStand 10 Dec 2007 -- As the Nassau Strike Group continues its Composite Unit Training Exercise (COMPTUEX), the medical team from the amphibious assault ship USS Nassau (LHA 4) and personnel from Fleet Surgical Team (FST) 2 participated in mass casualty drills Dec. 5-6 to better prepare themselves for real-life situations.
  • Tarawa Completes Military Element of Humanitarian Operations in Bangladesh Navy NewsStand 10 Dec 2007 -- The amphibious assault ship USS Tarawa (LHA 1), as well as elements of Amphibious Squadron 1 and the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Special Operations Capable (SOC) completed the military support element of ongoing disaster relief operations in Bangladesh on Dec. 7.
  • NAVSTA Great Lakes Opens 'Green' Drill Hall on RTC Navy NewsStand 10 Dec 2007 -- Leaders from Naval Station Great Lakes, Recruit Training Command (RTC) and Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Midwest celebrated the official opening of a new, energy-efficient drill hall for recruits here Dec. 6 with a ceremonial ribbon cutting.
  • Tarawa's Medical Teams Give Aid To Residents Affected By Tropical Cyclone Sidr Navy NewsStand 10 Dec 2007 -- Two Tarawa Expeditionary Strike Group medical teams provided aid to over 300 Bangladesh residents Dec. 5 who are still recovering from Tropical Cyclone Sidr.
  • Western Hemisphere Leaders Address MDA Cooperation Navy NewsStand 10 Dec 2007 -- Key military and naval leaders from both North and South America gathered in Santiago, on Dec. 5-7, to discuss common hemispheric interests in the realm of maritime domain surveillance, information sharing, and cooperative decision making in the first Western Hemisphere Maritime Domain Awareness Workshop.
  • VAW-120 NFOs Earn Their Wings of Gold Navy NewsStand 10 Dec 2007 -- Eight members of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 120 received their coveted wings of gold during a ceremony held at Breezy Point Officer's Club on Naval Station Norfolk, Nov. 30.
  • CNO Holiday Message to the Fleet Navy NewsStand 10 Dec 2007 -- The Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead has released the following holiday message to the fleet
  • F-15s undergo extensive technical inspections AFPN 10 Dec 2007 -- Air Force maintainers are now performing methodical and time-intensive inspections on all F-15 Eagles, models A, B, C and D, in response to the Dec. 3 stand-down order.
  • Commander retires after 38 years of service AFPN 10 Dec 2007 -- With one last review of a formation of Ramstein's finest Airmen, and along with it, one last coin challenge, Gen. William T. Hobbins, commander of United States Air Forces in Europe, was retired at a ceremony here Dec. 10 after more than 38 years of service.
  • Military Officials Urge Accession to Law of Sea Treaty AFPS 10 Dec 2007 -- Ahead of an anticipated Senate vote to ratify the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea, two military officials today encouraged the congressional chamber to accede to the treaty that will guarantee aspects of vital passage and overflight.
  • U.S. Soldiers Training with Russian Troops in 'Torgau' Army News 07 Dec 2007 -- U.S. and Russian soldiers are training together this week in an exercise named "Torgau" in remembrance of the place where the two armies first met in Germany during World War II.
  • Trends Must be Reversed to Stop Terrorist Recruiting Army News 07 Dec 2007 -- Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey said more than 1,100 terrorists groups are operating around the world and listed a number of global trends that need to be reversed if America is to prevail in conflicts of the 21st Century.
  • 3-D imaging research could aid military planning AFPN 10 Dec 2007 -- Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded scientists are currently developing unique, updateable holographic 3-D displays that can be used in military applications.
  • Vandenberg officals successfully launch Delta II rocket AFPN 10 Dec 2007 -- Officals at Vandenberg Air Force Base successfully launched a Delta II rocket Dec. 8 at 6:31 p.m. The rocket took off from Space Launch Complex-2 carrying the Thales Alenia-Space COSMO-SkyMed 2 Satellite.

  • Russia's integrated radar network to be ready by 2010 RIA Novosti 10 Dec 2007 -- Russia will complete by 2010 the development of a dual-purpose integrated automated radar system, which will eventually become a global air and space surveillance network, a senior Air Force official said on Monday.

  • Press Briefing by Dana Perino The White House 10 Dec 2007

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  • Departing prosecutor at UN tribunal laments Serbia’s failure to arrest suspects UN News Centre 10 Dec 2007 -- Serbia continues to do nothing to arrest the two most notorious suspects from the 1990s Balkan wars, the outgoing Prosecutor of the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said today, declaring that her previous optimism that Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadžic might soon be in custody “has waned considerably.”
  • Three Serbs temporarily released from jail by UN war crimes tribunal UN News Centre 10 Dec 2007 -- Three men facing trial at the United Nations war crimes tribunal set up to deal with the worst crimes of the Balkan wars of the 1990s have been granted temporary release from jail and allowed to return to Serbia while the court is on its annual winter recess.
  • NIGER: Humanitarian access cut to north IRIN 10 Dec 2007 -- Indiscriminately laid landmines, a sceptical government and a rebel group that has attacked aid workers are obstacles that will have to be overcome before relief efforts can start for an estimated 20,000 people affected by flooding and fighting in the country’s remote north.
  • GLOBAL: Climate change - heating up conflict IRIN 10 Dec 2007 -- Increasing pressure caused by climate change on essential resources like water could not only trigger domestic conflicts but also have a destabilising effect globally, warn UN officials.
  • COTE D'IVOIRE: Ex-rebels impose night-driving ban as attacks persist IRIN 10 Dec 2007 -- The head of the ex-rebel group 'Forces Nouvelles' in northwestern Côte d’Ivoire has banned driving after 6pm as a measure “to fully ensure” people’s security in the region, where often-deadly road attacks have become an almost daily occurrence.
  • GLOBAL: UN seeks $3.8 billion for crises-hit communities IRIN 10 Dec 2007 -- The UN has launched a US$3.8-billion appeal to provide emergency aid to 25 million people next year as they struggle to survive conflict, climate-related disasters and other humanitarian crises.
  • Kosovo: Talks End, But Uncertainty Remains RFE/RL 10 Dec 2007 -- It doesn't take long on the streets of Kosovo to see what international mediators have spent the past 120 days determining -- most ethnic Albanians and Serbs who live here are resigned to the inevitability of change. Specifically, to resolving nearly a decade of deadlock.
  • Migiro holds talks with leaders of three troubled African countries UN News Centre 10 Dec 2007 -- Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro has held talks with the leaders of three African countries facing enormous political, economic and social challenges – Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau and Somalia – during her visit to Lisbon, Portugal, this weekend to attend the African Union-European Union summit.
  • Preventive diplomacy essential, Ban Ki-moon tells launch of UN regional centre UN News Centre 10 Dec 2007 -- Preventive diplomacy is not an option but a necessity, given the gravity of so many situations worldwide, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, launching the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia.
  • Secretary-General laments lack of progress on implementing Cyprus agreement UN News Centre 10 Dec 2007 -- The Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot sides have made no progress in the past six months in implementing the July 2006 agreement aimed at establishing the framework for a political process so that full-fledged negotiations on solving the Cyprus problem can begin, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says.
  • Future Kosovo PM tells Serbs 'Don't Fear Independence' VOA 10 Dec 2007 -- Kosovo's incoming Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has urged the province's minority Serbs not to be afraid of independence that the ethnic-Albanian majority wants to declare soon.
  • SUDAN: Water shortage fears in Darfur camps IRIN 10 Dec 2007 -- Long queues of women and children at water distribution points are a frequent sight in the Abou Shouk displaced persons camp of North Darfur.
  • YEMEN: WFP to extend food aid programme in Saada region IRIN 10 Dec 2007 -- The UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Yemen has said it will extend its food aid for displaced and insurgency-affected people in Saada Province in northern Yemen until March 2008.
  • Hamas asks U.S. for dialogue in open letter RIA Novosti 10 Dec 2007 -- An Hamas official has urged the U.S. to enter into dialogue with the Palestinian Islamist group, which currently controls the Gaza Strip, the Jerusalem Post reported on Monday.
  • Rotation of Russian peacekeepers over in Abkhazia RIA Novosti 10 Dec 2007 -- A planned rotation of Russian peacekeepers' units in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone is over, an aide to the CIS joint peacekeeping forces commander said Monday.
  • UN Kosovo deadline set to expire as tensions grow RIA Novosti 10 Dec 2007 -- The UN deadline for an agreement on the future status of Kosovo is to run out on Monday, with the Albanian-dominated province preparing to declare independence and Russia warning of a "chain reaction."

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