Tag Archives: SECDEF

Inside the DoD: Jan. 25, 2013

Posted on January 25, 2013 by nmcfarland

Inside the DoD is a podcast dedicated to telling you stories from around the Department.
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Posted in DoD News, Podcast, Rotator | Tagged Armed Services Blood Program, ASBP, Barack Obama, Blood Donor Month, CIC Inaugural Ball, Commander in Chief, DoD Obama inauguration, Inauguration, Leon Panetta, Military Blood Program, Military parade inauguration, missile battery deployment, Obama Inauguration, Panetta Europe trip, Patriot Missile Batteries, POTUS, President Barack Obama, SECDEF, Secretary of Defense, Turkey NATO Missiles | Leave a comment

Women in Service

Posted on January 24, 2013 by nmcfarland

Today the Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in collaboration with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff made a major announcement about women’s roles within the Department of Defense.
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Posted in Chairman's Corner, DoD News, Rotator | Tagged Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, CJCS, DoD announcement, DoD News, General Martin Dempsey, Leon Panetta, SECDEF, SECDEF announcement, Secretary of Defense, women in military, Women in Service, women in service implementation plan | 1 Comment

Defense Secretary Encourages Service Members to Vote

Posted on October 5, 2012 by jtozer

“No matter where you are in the world, no matter who you plan to vote for, please exercise the very privilege that you’re willing to fight and die for in order to protect.”
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Posted in DoD News, Voting | Tagged absentee voting, Defense, election, Election 2012, FVAP, getting your ballot, making your vote count, message, military, Military voting, SECDEF, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, service members, soldiers, video, vote, voting, voting overseas in the military | Leave a comment

Panetta Outlines Suicide Prevention Strategy

Posted on September 8, 2012 by bniegel

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta today described a four-part strategy against what he termed “perhaps the most frustrating challenge I’ve come across” as head of the nation’s military forces: service member and veteran suicide. The secretary said his long-term goal …
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Posted in DoD News | Tagged Defense Department, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, Department of Veterans Affairs, DoD, military, SECDEF, suicide, Suicide Awareness, Suicide Prevention, Suicide Prevention Month | 1 Comment

Culinary Specialist

Posted on August 30, 2012 by jtozer

Chefs in the SECDEF‘s kitchen are at the top of their game. CS1 Reia Davis talks about cooking in that environment and bringing the skills she has learned there back to her next ship. Want to know what it’s like …
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Posted in DoD News | Tagged channel, cooking, cooks, cooks in the military, CS1 Reia Davis, Culinary Specialist, DMA Navy, kitchens, military cooks, Navy, sailors, SECDEF, the Pentagon, U.S. Navy, video, working in the SECDEF mess, YouTube | Leave a comment