September 24, 2012

Princess unveils WWII memorial at RAF Greenham Common

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Her Royal Highness, Princess Anne, The Princess Royal officially dedicated three memorial stones for U.S. Visiting Forces at the Greenham Business Park in Greenham Common, United Kingdom, Sept. 21.

September 24, 2012

Culmination of a career: Foreign service experience assists ambassador in EUCOM role

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With decades of diplomatic experience and intimate knowledge of U.S. civilian agencies, Butler is a bridge builder and interpreter who helps EUCOM navigate any political and military issues that arise within 51 countries in the command’s area of responsibility.

September 24, 2012

EUCOM senior enlisted seminar hits its mark

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ISES, a weeklong U.S. European Command event held at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, concluded on Sept. 13.

September 22, 2012

Exercise Jackal Stone 2012 leaders, participants honor fallen SF comrade

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Military members and civilians from the U.S. and Croatia honored the late Master Sgt. Ivica Jerak, a member of U.S. Army Special Operations Command, with a small memorial service held in his native town of Debeljak, Croatia, Sept. 22, 2012.

September 27, 2012

Last LOGEX conference before the exercise

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The LOGEX 13 Final Coordination Conference and associated workshop was held in Tirana, at the Albanian Military Training Doctrine Center.

September 26, 2012

An Interagency Persepctive on the Battle of Antietam

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I couldn’t help but contrast the battlefield with my classroom setting of federal executives debating today’s contentious national policy issues.

September 24, 2012

Missiles and Pirates

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In the week ahead, I'll focus on two topics that don't always get a huge amount of attention, but are very important: piracy and missile defense.

September 12, 2012

EUCOM and SHAPE Senior Enlisted Leaders talk NCO leadership

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SHAPE Command Senior Enlisted Leader and EUCOM's Command Senior Enlisted Leader spotlight on the superb character of senior enlisted leadership

September 20, 2012

Kansas NG partners with Armenia for demining

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YEREVAN, Armenia - (Sept. 20, 2012) Sgt. 1st Class Travis Eichhorn, a Pittsburg, Kansas native, gives an update on today's training with humanitarian demining soldiers in Armenia. Kansas National Guardsmen and the HDTC representative are instructing Armenian peacekeepers and engineer battalions on international demining standards as part of the Humanitarian Mine Action program and will assist the Armenian government in developing a national standard operating procedure for demining.

September 19, 2012

Kansas NG partners with Armenia for demining

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YEREVAN, Armenia - (Sept. 19, 2012) Kansas National Guard Capt. Michael Liotta takes viewers to some on site demining classes with the Armenian engineering and demining battalions. Kansas and Armenia have a long partnership stretching back to Senator Bob Dole being nursed backed to health in World War II by an Armenian doctor and calling for the U.S. to be the first to recognize Armenia’s independence.

September 18, 2012

Environmentally friendly military bases

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In an era of decreasing financial resources, it’s even more important to use all of our resources in a responsible manner. AFN’s Aaron Talley reports on an Assistant Secretary of the Army whose job is to ensure soldiers have the resources they need to complete their mission.

September 18, 2012

Welcome to the Air Assault Course

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Soldiers from more than fifteen units throughout US Army Europe are in Schweinfurt, Germany to take on the challenges of earning the Air Assault Badge. SGT Benjamin Boggess has more.

September 27, 2012

Clinton talks euro, urges fair vote in Ukraine, Georgia

(The Financial) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday urged Ukraine and Georgia to hold free and fair elections and discussed the eurozone crisis in a series of meetings with European leaders.

September 27, 2012

Turkey to ban access to anti-Islam film

(Hurriyet) - A court ruling allowing Turkey to ban access to the anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims” that sparked outrage worldwide has been finalized, Transportation, Maritime and Communication Minister Binali Yildirim said today.

September 27, 2012

Georgia 2012 Foreign Consequence Management Exercise

(army.mil) - Georgia 2012 is a NATO Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Center (EADRCC) Foreign Consequence Management exercise in Tbilisi, Georgia from Sept. 22-28.

September 26, 2012

Attack by Iran’s Ahmadinejad sparks Israel walkout

(AP) - Iran’s president called Israel a nuclear-armed “fake regime” shielded by the United States, prompting Israel’s U.N. ambassador to walk out of a high-level U.N. meeting Monday promoting the rule of law.

September 25, 2012

Clinton calls for action at start of NYC meeting

(WSJ) - Former President Bill Clinton on Sunday challenged Wal-Mart to open a store in Libya and help create jobs in the world's most troubled areas.

September 25, 2012

Upgrades Boost U.S. Naval Capabilities Against Iranian Threat

(Bloomberg) - The 41-year-old refurbished transport vessel overseeing an international Middle East mine- hunting exercise can defend itself from Iranian speedboats with two new machine guns cued by long-range cameras bought under a special Pentagon program.

September 25, 2012

UK to extradite radical Muslim cleric to US

(AP) — A European court ruled Monday that radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri can be extradited to the United States to face terrorism charges, including allegedly trying to set up an al-Qaida training camp in rural Oregon.