USS Blue Ridge, 7th Fleet Conclude Pacific Partnership 2010 Palau

July 31, 2010

Pacific Partnership 2010 (PP-10) departed Palau July 30 marking the conclusion of a four-day endeavor to provide humanitarian and civic assistance ashore.

US, Iraqi Security Forces open refurbished school

July 31, 2010

Recently, a decrease in violence, brought on by a partnership between U.S. forces and a strengthened Iraqi Security Force, has allowed the school a refurbished school in Malahma and was recently re-opened to the public.

Concert in the Park

July 31, 2010

Location: Alpine, CA...Marine Band San Diego’s Concert Band will be performing a concert approximately 1 hour in length. Our concerts truly feature something for everyone! Audience members can expect to hear a tremendous variety of musical styles such as fresh, original works composed by the world’s most renowned composers, standard and contemporary band literature, traditional American classics, and patriotic songs. Marine Band San Diego appears on behalf of Major General Ronald Bailey, Commanding General, Marine Corps Recruit Depot and the Western Recruiting Region.

Too many laws, too many prisoners

July 31, 2010

- Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little; too many politicians want to act tough, too many prosecutors never read Robert H. Jackson essays - The Economist. Spring, Texas — THREE pickup trucks pulled up outside George Norris’s home in Spring, Texas. Six armed police in flak jackets jumped [...]

CORRECTION: Preliminary analysis of flowrate for leaking wellhead in Barataria Waterway

July 31, 2010

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Maintainers resurrect F-16s that will become targets

July 31, 2010

Maintainers are towing F-16 Fighting Falcons out of retirement from the "boneyard" here July 29 and preparing them to become the Air Force's newest platform for target training. 

Specialists with the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group are regenerating F-16s so they can be flown to a Boeing facility in Florida where they will be converted to QF-16 full-scale aerial targets.

Boeing officials received a $69.7 million contract from Air Force officials in March to convert up to 126 retired F-16s into QF-16 drones that can fly either manned or unmanned, according to a Boeing press release.
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Fallen Airmen honored at Arctic Thunder

July 31, 2010

Commanders from the 3rd Wing and the Alaska Air National Guard's 176th Wing here spoke to local media July 31, discussing the weekend's Arctic Thunder air show and the tragic C-17 Globemaster III crash July 28 which killed four crewmembers.

Maj. Michael Freyholtz, 34, from Hines, Minn., and Maj. Aaron Malone, 36, from Anchorage, Alaska, both pilots assigned to the Alaska Air National Guard's 249th Airlift Squadron; Capt. Jeffrey Hill, 31, from York, Pa., a pilot assigned to Elmendorf's 517th Airlift Squadron; and Senior Master Sgt. Thomas Cicardo, 47, from Anchorage, a loadmaster with the 249th Airlift Squadron, were killed in the crash.
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Veterans of Gulf War Continue Their Battle for Truth and Transparency

July 31, 2010

 July 27th hearing of the US House Veterans Affairs Committee- Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation  can be seen and all testimony read at following site: http://veterans.house.gov/hearings/hearing.aspx?newsid=601 A new review article by Nora Eisenberg reviews some of the feedback from this past week, the article and link follows. As stated the only new item that occurred [...]

PHOTO RELEASE: Clean up, recovery operations continue in Barataria Waterway

July 31, 2010

Attack sub Missouri commissioned in New London

July 31, 2010

GROTON, Conn. — Another attack submarine has joined the Navy.

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