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Leaders discuss new joint unmanned aerial operations

Army and Air Force leaders met Monday to discuss developing a new joint unmanned aerial system concept of operations. "As opposed to finding independent solutions, we are trying to find joint, collaborative solutions that best support the joint warfighter in any spectrum of war," said Air Force Gen. John D.W. Corley, head of Air Combat Command.
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MCBJ firefighters on Okinawa practice eliminating obstacles, getting inside

CAMP FOSTER, OKINAWA, Japan — Thirty firefighters with Marine Corps Bases Japan hacked, cut and pried their way through one of the toughest doors around during forced-entry training at the MCBJ Fire Department June 25....
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Amos advances to general, becomes assistant commandant

After advancing to general in a July 2 ceremony presided by the commandant of the Marine Corps, Lt. Gen. James F. Amos assumed duties as 31st assistant commandant of the Marine Corps today. ...
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24th MEU flips to coin; Civil Military Operations Center opens in Gamsir

HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan — At a forward outpost in Garmsir, a line of Afghans wait to talk with Marines at the newly opened Civil Military Operations Center; they have come to voice their claims and receive cash payments for losses incurred while Marines battled insurgents. ...
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Guard Ratchets up in Missouri, Tackles Flooding in 5 States

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ARLINGTON, Va. (Army News Service, June 20, 2008) - Missouri is the latest Midwest state to see increasing numbers of National Guard Citizen-Soldiers on duty in the face of the region's worst flooding in 15 years.
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Navy, Army Divers Work to Raise Sunken Former Soviet Sub

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (NNS) -- U.S. Navy expeditionary combat salvage divers and a contingent of U.S. Army divers are taking part in a unique real-world training mission that is honing their skills while benefiting the local community in Providence.
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July 2 airpower summary: F-15Es perform shows of force

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Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations July 2, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.
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New Marines learn discipline, camaraderie

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MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT SAN DIEGO — The Spartans, Romans and today’s U.S. Marines are known as some of the finest fighting organizations man kind has ever known. These great armed forces in history all had one thing in common with one another. They all had discipline and all knew some form of close-order drill.
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Coast Guard Marine Safety Center Holds Change of Command

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Patrick E. Little will assume command of the Coast Guard Marine Safety Center (MSC) during a change of command ceremony scheduled for Friday, 1:30 p.m., in the Telecommunication and Information Systems Command gymnasium at 7323 Telegraph Rd., Alexandria, Va.
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President salutes wounded Airman at medical center groundbreaking

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A scar peeked out from beneath the navy blue beret Staff Sgt. Scott Lilley borrowed to wear July 3 during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center here.
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White Paper on German Security Policy

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Twelve years have passed since the publication of the last White Paper on the Security of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Situation of the Bundeswehr.
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