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| WASHINGTON, July 31, 2001 - DoD is poised to defend department computer networks from a revival of the Code Red "worm" virus, DoD officials said July 31. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 31, 2001 - Iraq has grown increasingly aggressive in trying to down a coalition aircraft, a Pentagon spokesman said July 31. |
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| FORT A.P. HILL, Va., July 27, 2001 - The mission: Work with a nongovernmental organization, feed, shelter, transport and care for 40,000 people. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 27, 2001 - DoD expects to have legislation authorizing more rounds of U.S. base closures to Congress before their August recess, DoD officials said. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 27, 2001 - (This is a summary of the top American Forces Press Service news stories for the week ending July 27, 2001.) |
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| WASHINGTON, July 26, 2001 - "AFIS On Assignment" is a weekly publication of the American Forces Information Service. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 25, 2001 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People bestowed its top service awards on eight service members and two Defense Department civilian employees recently at its 26th annual Armed Services and Veterans Affairs Awards dinner in New Orleans. |
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| ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, Va., July 24, 2001 - DoD honored African American Korean War veterans here July 23 in a three-part commemoration starting at the Tomb of the Unknowns. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 23, 2001 - "I was frightened, but you've got to control fear, or fear will get you killed -- quicker," Medal of Honor recipient Ed W. Freeman said as he described flying his Huey helicopter in and out of a hot landing zone in Vietnam on Nov. 14, 1965. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 23, 2001 - Under a new law that became effective July 2, the State Department now requires both parents' consent to obtain passports for overseas travel of children under age 14. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 20, 2001 - Retired Navy Adm. Leighton W. Smith and retired Marine Corps Gen. Charles Wilhelm have been named co-chairmen of a group charged to find a training site to replace the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 20, 2001 - The Army inducted three Medal of Honor heroes from three different wars into the Pentagon's "Hall of Heroes" on July 16. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 20, 2001 - (This is a summary of the top American Forces Press Service
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| WASHINGTON, July 20, 2001 - WASHINGTON, July 20, 2001 -- Military family member Eric Mize performed what some parents and educators consider a phenomenal feat: He never missed a day of school from kindergarten through the 12th grade -- while attending eight schools on four continents. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 19, 2001 - Last year, two young men ignored signs and went joyriding in an impact area at Camp Shelby, Miss. They got stuck in the mud and called a friend to winch them out. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 19, 2001 - "AFIS On Assignment" is a weekly publication of the American Forces Information Service. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 19, 2001 - Work on the Quadrennial Defense Review, the "blueprint" to U.S. military transformation, is on track, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said July 18. |
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| FORT LEE, Va., July 19, 2001 - Look for celebrations around the world as local commissaries honor the nearly 400 recipients of the first annual Scholarships for Military Children. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 17, 2001 - Developing a joint command and control capability offers DoD a way to speed up responses to aggression and gives the president more options during the crisis stage of an incident, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 17, 2001 - DoD officials released the proposed fiscal 2002 active duty military pay table. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 17, 2001 - The U.S. military is walking a fine line between maintaining today's forces and preparing for defense transformation, DoD's senior leaders told the House Appropriations Committee July 16. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 17, 2001 - WASHINGTON, July 17, 2001 -- The Family Literacy Foundation's "United Through Reading" program is the overall $10,000 grant winner in the second annual Newman's Own award contest. |
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| PALM HARBOR, Fla., July 16, 2001 - Next to their parents, children of military families have no better advocates than the Military Child Education Coalition, Army Gen. Henry H. Shelton told the group July 13 at their annual conference here. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 16, 2001 - DoD and contractor personnel had been working for months on the test of the ground-based interceptor, but "pucker time" started the moment a target missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. At 10:40 p.m. Eastern time July 14. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 16, 2001 - If the bright flash of light wasn't proof enough, the cheers that erupted in the Pacific Missile Range control room proved the success of the most ambitious U.S. missile defense test conducted to date. |
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| PALM HARBOR, Fla., July 13, 2001 - Raising children is tough enough, but moving their families around every two or three years makes the job even more demanding for their parents and school teachers, the nation's top military officer said here July 13. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 13, 2001 - Ballistic missile defense is crucial to U.S. national security, and its development will eventually conflict with the 1972 U.S.-Soviet Anti- Ballistic Missile Treaty, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz said here July 12. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 13, 2001 - (This is a summary of the top American Forces Press Service
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| WASHINGTON, July 13, 2001 - Most Americans want a better life for their children, but that can't happen without serious educators, Army Gen. Tommy R. Franks said July 12. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 12, 2001 - "AFIS On Assignment" is a weekly publication of the American Forces Information Service. |
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| PALM HARBOR, Fla., July 12, 2001 - PALM HARBOR, Fla., July 12, 2001 - "Welcome. We care about you and your success in this new place." That's the message the Department of Defense and the Military Child Education Coalition want to send transitioning students of military families, according to Charles S. Abell, assistant secretary of defense for force management policy. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 11, 2001 - A panel of outside experts recommends DoD overhaul its financial management and accounting operations to realize private-sector-like efficiencies. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 11, 2001 - If you read the newspapers or watch television you are hearing a lot about the Quadrennial Defense Review. What exactly is this QDR and how does it affect service members? |
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| WASHINGTON, July 11, 2001 - WASHINGTON, July 11, 2001 - People thinking about taking dietary supplements to pep up, bulk up or slim down ought to ask their doctor or other health provider first. |
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| ARLINGTON, Va., July 10, 2001 - An optimistic Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz set the tone for the recent 32nd annual National League of POW/MIA Families conference here. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 10, 2001 - The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization will conduct a test of an anti-ballistic missile system July 14. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 6, 2001 - (This is a summary of the top American Forces Press Service articles for the week ending July 6, 2001.) |
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| WASHINGTON, July 6, 2001 - WASHINGTON, July 6, 2001 – All the military services are facing readiness problems directly tied to allowing aircraft, equipment and infrastructure to age, DoD officials said. |
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| ARLINGTON, Va., July 6, 2001 - ARLINGTON, Va., July 6, 2001 – The precedent-setting Navy- Marine Corps Intranet will harness the latest information security technologies and practices to ward off computer hackers seeking to compromise the system, DoD officials say. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 5, 2001 - "AFIS On Assignment" is a weekly publication of the American Forces Information Service. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 5, 2001 - WASHINGTON, July 5, 2001 - Service members and their families stationed in Korea live and work in "grim" conditions, including Quonset huts that were built after the armistice agreement in 1953, Army Gen. Thomas Schwartz said during a recent hearing on quality of life for U.S. forces stationed in Korea. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 5, 2001 - WASHINGTON, July 5, 2001 -- DoD is teaming with veterans service organizations across the country to enhance traditional funeral ceremonies that honor the nation's military veterans. |
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| WASHINGTON, July 2, 2001 - Veterans, ex-POWs, MIA family members and active duty military people have created a poster for National POW/MIA Recognition Day on Sept. 21, 2001, that officials tout as "bigger and better" than last year's. |
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