UNITED24 - Make a charitable donation in support of Ukraine!

Military


27 October 2006 Military News

Operations
Defense Policy / Programs
Defense Industry
Other Conflicts
News Reports

Current Operations

Defense Policy / Programs

  • AW2 Symposium: Soldiers, families stitch lives back together Army News 27 Oct 2006 -- Some wounds are still healing. Some losses, like limbs, will never be replaced. At the Army's Wounded Warrior Symposium in Arlington this week, 55 severely injured Soldiers and their families opened up about the most painful, trying events of their lives.
  • Essex Offloads MEU, Helps School in Subic Bay Navy NewsStand 27 Oct 2006 -- USS Essex (LHD 2) wrapped up a two-and-a-half day visit in Subic Bay Oct. 19, that included offloading Marines of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and their equipment, as well as Sailors participating in a community service project for a local school.
  • Boxer Expeditionary Strike Group, Indian Navy Begin Exercise Malabar 2006 Navy NewsStand 27 Oct 2006 -- USS Boxer (LHD 4) Expeditionary Strike Group (BOXESG) and the Indian navy's Western Fleet began Exercise Malabar 2006 Oct. 25 off the southwest coast of India.
  • U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command Counter-Narcotic Efforts Recognized Navy NewsStand 27 Oct 2006 -- The Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy presented U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command (NAVSO) the Director's Award for Distinguished Service during a ceremony at NAVSO headquarters Oct. 27 in recognition of their counter-narcotics efforts in its area of responsibility (AOR).
  • DOE Reactor Site Returned To "Green Field" Conditions Navy NewsStand 27 Oct 2006 -- The U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program commemorated the first release of a U.S. nuclear power reactor site for unrestricted future use, the Department of Energy (DOE) S1C Prototype Reactor Site in Windsor, Conn., Oct. 18.
  • Combat Comm readies Airmen for deployments AFPN 27 Oct 2006 -- Driving convoys, building defense fighting positions and throwing elbows in hand-to-hand combat were all incorporated into the combat readiness course here Oct. 20 to 27.
  • Boom uses steady hand to keep aircraft fighting AFPN 27 Oct 2006 -- Senior Airman Jered Danielson compared operating the boom at nearly 5 miles above Iraq to a video game, but there's more to it than just playing a game.
  • Delta II STEREO launches from Cape Canaveral AFPN 27 Oct 2006 -- Two NASA observatories called "STEREO" blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Oct. 25 starting a two-year mission to study solar flares.

  • Bush Praises U.S.-NATO Partnership Against Terror AFPS 27 Oct 2006 -- President Bush today called NATO's chief "a very strong leader" who has ably led the organization in confronting the 21st-century challenge of global terrorism.
  • Bush Praises NATO as Values-Based Alliance Ahead of Riga Summit Washington File 27 Oct 2006 -- NATO has become a "values-based organization" that is working with the United States on three continents to overcome "radicals and extremists," President Bush told the alliance's secretary-general at the White House October 27.

  • Russia, France expand naval cooperation RIA Novosti 27 Oct 2006 -- Russia's state arms exporter and a French defense company signed a cooperation document during an international arms show in France, a RIA Novosti correspondent said Friday.

  • Daily Press Briefing US Dept. of State 27 Oct 2006
  • Press Briefing by Tony Snow The White House 27 Oct 2006

Defense Industry

Other Conflicts

News Reports



NEWSLETTER
Join the GlobalSecurity.org mailing list