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10 October 2006 Military News

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  • DoD Announces Recruiting and Retention Numbers for FY 2006 10 Oct 2006 -- The Department of Defense announced today its recruiting and retention statistics for the active and Reserve components for fiscal 2006.
  • Transcript: DoD News Briefing with Dr. Chu at the Pentagon 12 Oct 2006 -- Presenter: Undersecretary for Personnel and Readiness Dr. David S. C. Chu

  • 'Spirit of McChord' gives Canadians a lift AFPN 10 Oct 2006 -- Normally they move people, humanitarian supplies, troop rations and equipment, but Airmen with the 817th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron's Detachment 1 here were tasked Oct. 7 to move different equipment -- several 30-foot, 100,000 pound Canadian tanks.
  • Deployed B-52 maintainers achieve perfect record AFPN 10 Oct 2006 -- Since deploying here, B-52 Stratofortress maintainers with the 36th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron have achieved a 100-percent mission effectiveness-rate and 100-percent weapons-release rate for every sortie flown during September.
  • Communication Critical to Maintain Recruiting Momentum AFPS 10 Oct 2006 -- All four services met their active-duty recruiting goals for the past fiscal year, but to keep the momentum going, the military needs to do a better job of communicating the "nobility of service" and of reaching out to adults who influence young people's decisions about joining the military, a senior defense official said.
  • Recruiting Numbers Jump in Fiscal 2006 AFPS 10 Oct 2006 -- All U.S. armed forces made their active-duty recruiting goals for fiscal 2006, the Defense Department's top personnel officer said here today.
  • South Korea-based 35th ADA poised for danger Army News 10 Oct 2006 -- You know you've arrived at a real-world hotspot where the potential for danger is palpable when you see a U2 spy plane lift off and disappear over the horizon and a U.S. Patriot missile battery "hot" crew spring into action.
  • Soldiers protect peace on North, South Korea border Army News 10 Oct 2006 -- Korea may seem largely forgotten as the world's attention focuses on war-on-terror fronts. But, communist North Korea became the center of attention yesterday after claims that it conducted its first-ever nuclear test.
  • Soldiers in South Korea ready for war 365 days a year Army News 10 Oct 2006 -- "It's a country that time has forgotten," said Special Operations Command, Korea, Command Sgt. Maj. Richard Kimmich of North Korea.
  • Stennis Successfully Surges Flight Operations During COMPTUEX Navy NewsStand 10 Oct 2006 -- After two days of increased flight operations ending Oct. 3, USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) Strike Group (JCSSG) demonstrated it could handle the necessary flight-operation tempo required to surge in response to a contingency situation.
  • Eightballers CO Rolls into Rare Air Pocket Navy NewsStand 10 Oct 2006 -- The commanding officer of Helicopter Anti-Submarine (HS) Squadron 8, the "Eightballers," achieved a rare career milestone off of the flight deck of USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) Sept. 29, when he became one of only a few pilots to ever accrue more than 4,000 career flight hours in an SH-60F/H helicopter.

  • Press Briefing by Tony Snow The White House 10 Oct 2006
  • Daily Press Briefing US Dept. of State 10 Oct 2006

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