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09 May 2006 Military News

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Defense Policy / Programs

  • DoD Announces Installation Realignment in United Kingdom 09 May 2006 -- The Department of Defense announced today that the United States military would cease operations at the Army Prepositioned Site (APS) in Hythe, United Kingdom.
  • Steel Hammer Completes MCA During Multi-Sail 06 Navy NewsStand 09 May 2006 -- USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) completed its Mid-Cycle Assessment (MCA) April 19-22 while participating in Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15’s Multi-Sail 2006 (MS06) exercise.
  • Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group Earns Blue Water Certification Navy NewsStand 09 May 2006 -- USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7, Destroyer Squadron 28 and the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group have been conducting Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), and the team received Blue Water Certification, May 6.
  • NAS Jacksonville Shoreline Gets Facelift, New Piers Navy NewsStand 09 May 2006 -- The Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville Public Works Department is removing five condemned piers from the station’s shoreline in May and replacing them with two upgraded piers that base officials say will provide enjoyment to patrons and employees for years to come.
  • Rumsfeld Urges Speedy Approval of Supplemental Budget AFPS 09 May 2006 -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld urged Congress today to quickly approve President Bush's 2006 supplemental budget request, telling Pentagon reporters delays will hamper military operations and slow down progress in Iraq.
  • Transportation Command Transforming to Meet Warfighters' Needs AFPS 09 May 2006 -- Working under a new mandate, U.S. Transportation Command is transforming how it moves people, weapons and supplies to support the global war on terrorism, the command's senior enlisted advisor said here yesterday.
  • Dagger Brigade deploys to Fort Riley, trains transition teams Army News 09 May 2006 -- "Dagger Brigade" Soldiers will help 1st Infantry Division cadre at Fort Riley learn to train military transition teams bound for such missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • Stryker ramps up to unveil Mobile Gun System Army News 09 May 2006 -- The newest version of the Stryker vehicle, designed to provide fire power to Infantry units, will be unveiled May 15 at Fort Knox's Armor Warfighting Symposium.

Defense Industry

Other Conflicts

  • U.S. To Send $10 Million in Humanitarian Aid to Palestinians Washington File 09 May 2006 -- The international community is concerned deeply about the reported shortages of medicine and health care equipment in the Palestinian Territories and will work to address the problem, according to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, but she places the blame for the Palestinians' deteriorating situation squarely on the shoulders of the Hamas-led government.
  • Hamas, Fatah Clash Again in Gaza VOA 09 May 2006 -- At least nine Palestinians have been wounded in a second day of clashes in the Gaza Strip between gunmen of the rival Hamas and Fatah groups.

  • SUDAN: Egeland urges Darfur combatants to build on peace pact IRIN 09 May 2006 -- United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland on Tuesday urged the Sudanese government and insurgents in the country's strife-torn Darfur to take advantage of the peace deal signed last week between Khartoum and a rebel group to bring the conflict in the region to an end.
  • No time to lose in setting up UN force for Sudan's Darfur region - Annan UN News Centre 09 May 2006 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the world community to follow up on last week's peace accord between the Sudanese Government and the main rebel group in Darfur by establishing a muscular UN peacekeeping force and providing immediate aid to prevent hundreds of thousands more people dying.
  • U.S. Lawmaker Praises Bush's Timely Reaction to Darfur Crisis Washington File 09 May 2006 -- Representative Chris Smith (Republican of New Jersey), who in the past has voiced disappointment with the slow reaction of international donors to the Darfur crisis, praised President Bush for showing "strong leadership" after the president outlined immediate steps to bring relief to the more than 2 million people suffering because of events in western Sudan.
  • NIGERIA-SUDAN: AU calls for UN troop support in Darfur IRIN 09 May 2006 -- The force commander of the African Union Mission in Darfur (AMIS) has urged a quick and significant deployment of United Nations troops in the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur to help implement a peace deal struck in the Nigerian capital late last week.
  • UN: U.S. Presses For Peacekeeper Deployment To Darfur REF/RL 09 May 2006 -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is due to address the UN Security Council later today, where she is expected to urge the rapid deployment of a UN peacekeeping force to Darfur.

  • DRC-UGANDA: Call for regional effort to tackle LRA IRIN 09 May 2006 -- Uganda is pushing for "regional cooperation" in its efforts to hunt down and apprehend the leadership and remaining fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group, who are believed to be hiding in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
  • DRC: 18 army brigades to provide security during polls IRIN 09 May 2006 -- Eighteen fully integrated army brigades whose mission will be to provide security during Congo's general elections later this year will be fully trained by 5 July, the spokesman of the army chief of staff, Jean-Willy Mutombo, has said.

  • SOMALIA: More deaths in third day of Mogadishu fighting IRIN 09 May 2006 -- The death toll continued to rise in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, as fighting between rival militias entered its third day, local sources said.
  • US Support of Factions Fuels Resentment in Somalia VOA 09 May 2006 -- In recent months, Mogadishu, Somalia has become a deadly battleground between militias loyal to Islamic courts and a newly formed anti-terror coalition that is believed to have the support of the United States

  • Sri Lanka Peace Envoy Makes Little Progress VOA 09 May 2006 -- The latest diplomatic effort to break an impasse in Sri Lanka's fragile peace process has made no headway.

News Reports

  • Analysis: Georgia To Assess Repercussions Of Quitting CIS REF/RL 09 May 2006 -- For years, Georgian legislators and oppositionists alike have suggested periodically -- generally when relations with Russia take a downturn -- that Georgia might quit the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
  • Raytheon VIIRS Space-Based Weather Sensor Enters Thermal Vacuum Test Chamber Raytheon 09 May 2006 -- Raytheon Company's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) advanced sensor engineering development unit (EDU) has entered thermal vacuum testing, achieving another milestone for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).



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