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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 13 Oct 2006 [PDF]
• Task Force Lightning Soldier dies
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• CENTAF releases airpower summary for Oct. 13 AFPN 13 Oct 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Oct. 13.
• Explosion Kills Police Chief, Deputy in Hillah, Iraq AFPS 13 Oct 2006 -- The Hillah, Iraq, special weapons and tactics police chief and his deputy were killed today in an explosion at the Hillah Iraqi police headquarters in southern Babil province around 10:00 a.m.
• Bomb Blast Kills Iraqi Special Police Commander VOA 13 Oct 2006 -- Iraqi authorities say a bomb blast at a police station south of Baghdad has killed a commander of a special police force and his aide.
• Afghanistan: ISAF Warning Offers Chance To Break Destructive Cycle RFE/RL 13 Oct 2006 -- All of the parties involved in Afghanistan's stabilization process since the fall of the Taliban nearly five years ago (December 2001) tend to agree that security and reconstruction are two sides of the same coin
• Chinook Helicopters Complete Aid Deliveries to Remote Pakistan Washington File 13 Oct 2006 -- They landed on the edge of high mountains in spots that were sometimes less than 16 meters wide. But the pilots and crews of the United States Army Chinook helicopters were determined to airlift vital supplies to as many parts of Pakistan as they could before the severe Himalayan winter cuts off the remotest regions of the country.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Tanker hits top of the charts for recapitalization priority AFPN 13 Oct 2006 -- The Air Force's new No. 1 procurement priority is the KC-X tanker, replacing the F-22 Raptor.
• Chief of staff of the Air Force reading list announced AFPN 13 Oct 2006 -- Officials announced the new chief of staff of the Air Force reading list here Oct. 13.
• BHR Wraps Up Fleet Week Stay Navy NewsStand 12 Oct 2006 -- Sailors and Marines of USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) (BHR) sailed away from San Francisco Oct. 11, marking the end of San Francisco Fleet Week 2006.
• ACC assists maintainers with AFSO 21 AFPN 13 Oct 2006 -- Moody AFB officials recently welcomed a delegation of Air Combat Command facilitators for a five-day Rapid Improvement Event to assist the base with its Air Force Smart Operations 21 initiatives.
• 14th FTW welcomes new trainer aircraft AFPN 13 Oct 2006 -- The 14th Flying Training Wing commander formally welcomed the T-6 Texan II to the Columbus AFB fleet during an official ceremony here Oct. 12.
• Army business transformation panel highlights initial successes at AUSA Army News 13 Oct 2006 -- Deputy Under Secretary of the Army for Business Transformation Michael Kirby led a panel discussion on the scope, methodology and initial successes of the Army's business transformation at the Association of the U.S. Army annual meeting here Wednesday.
• General Dynamics Awarded $14 Million for Mine Roller Systems for U.S. Marine Corps Vehicles General Dynamics 13 Oct 2006 -- The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), a contract for $14 million for 150 Mine Roller Systems (MRS).
• Carrier Air Wing 9 Prepares for Deployment Navy NewsStand 13 Oct 2006 -- Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW 9) is currently engaged in the John C. Stennis Strike Group's (JCSSG) Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), which began Sept. 21. COMPTUEX is a monthlong exercise involving the entire JCSSG.
• VAW-121 Hosts Safety Fair Navy NewsStand 13 Oct 2006 -- Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 121 hosted a safety fair for Airborne Command Control and Logistics Wing (ACCLOGWING) Oct. 12 at Naval Station Norfolk as part of their required quarterly safety stand down.
• Diego Garcia Earns $133,000 from Selling Scrap Navy NewsStand 13 Oct 2006 -- The first of three loads of scrap metal were removed from Diego Garcia Oct. 9, the result of selling the unusable material to a contractor.
• Six Years After Terror Attack, Navy Ship Patrols Gulf of Aden Washington File 13 Oct 2006 -- Six years ago, al-Qaida terrorists attacked a U.S. Navy ship during a refueling stop in Yemen. Seventeen sailors were killed, but the crew saved the crippled destroyer and it once again patrols international waters around the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa.
• Ukraine must join NATO to ensure security - defense minister RIA Novosti 13 Oct 2006 -- Joining NATO is a key precondition for Ukraine's sovereignty and national security, the ex-Soviet country's defense minister said Friday.
• Daily Press Briefing US Dept. of State 13 Oct 2006
• Press Briefing by Tony Snow The White House 13 Oct 2006

Defense Industry

• DoD News: Contracts for October 13, 2006
• Raytheon Establishes Logistics Partnership with Warner Robins Air Logistics Center for JCA Raytheon 13 Oct 2006 -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has established a strategic partnership agreement with the Air Force's Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Georgia to work together on a logistics approach to the Joint Cargo Aircraft program.
• Boeing Begins Flight Tests and Laser Firings for Laser Gunship Program Boeing 13 Oct 2006 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has begun flight testing for the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) program and has generated "first light" of ATL's high-energy chemical laser in ground tests, achieving two key milestones in the laser gunship development effort.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICES OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL AND THE SPOKESWOMAN FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT United Nations 13 Oct 2006
• PRESS CONFERENCE BY PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF GEORGIA United Nations 13 Oct 2006
• Security Council extends mandate of UN mission in Georgia UN News Centre 13 Oct 2006 -- Voicing concern about fresh tensions in the long-running dispute between Georgian authorities and Abkhaz separatists, the Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) by another six months.
• Russia may use Air Force to protect its peacekeepers in Georgia RIA Novosti 13 Oct 2006 -- Russia may use its Air Force in the event of a Georgian attack on Russian peacekeepers stationed in the Georgian breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the Russian Air Force commander said Friday.
• Commission on Georgian-Ossetian conflict reaches no compromise RIA Novosti 13 Oct 2006 -- Members of the Joint Control Commission for the resolution of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict said Friday they had failed to reach a compromise, and the Georgian side has demanded an alteration in its format.
• Road Map remains best method of achieving peace in Middle East, says Annan UN News Centre 13 Oct 2006 -- Expressing regret that the Middle East peace process has not been revitalized this year as hoped, and that prospects for a two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have dwindled rather than grown, Secretary-General Kofi Annan stressed today that the Road Map remains the best way of achieving a lasting peace in the region.
• SUDAN: Govt, eastern rebels to sign peace agreement IRIN 13 Oct 2006 -- The Sudanese government and Eastern Front rebels have agreed to sign a peace agreement in the Eritrean capital of Asmara to end a simmering conflict in the east of Sudan, sources said.
• US Envoy Natsios Heads to Khartoum VOA 13 Oct 2006 -- United States special envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, is due to arrive in Khartoum on Friday.

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