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Archive: May, 2005

New law to affect SGLI payments, premiums May 18, 2005 — Defense and Veterans Affairs officials are ironing out details of programs that will expand benefits provided through Service members' Group Life Insurance. The $82 billion supplemental legislation signed into law by President Bush May 11 increases maximum SGLI coverage to $400,000 and provides payouts of up to $100,000 for service members with MORE

Intelligence community facing challenges with human intel May 18, 2005 — The Defense Intelligence Agency is facing several challenges, especially in the human intelligence community, an expert in this area said here May 17. Speaking at the 2005 C4ISR Integration Conference, Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Michael Ennis, deputy director of human intelligence for DIA, said there are problems in the HUMIT community when it comes MORE

BRAC 2005: Navy, Marine officials support recommendations May 17, 2005 — The Secretary of the Navy said today he's "confident" that base closures and realignments recommended for the sea service are "more than sufficient to fully support the future Navy and Marine Corps force structure."Gordon R. England, who also serves as acting deputy secretary of defense, told members of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission MORE

Operation Matador ends, Marines continue to monitor area May 14, 2005 — Operation Matador is over, Marine officials in Iraq announced today. The seven-day operation concentrated on cities near the border with Syria. Pentagon officials said many foreign fighters allied with terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi slip across the porous Syrian-Iraqi border. The operation concentrated on the Euphrates River cities of MORE

Services explain realignment, closure changes May 13, 2005 — The services have used the base realignment and closure process to realign active duty and reserve forces to better face the threats of the 21st century, Pentagon officials said today. Each service worked closely with the other services and new joint cross-service groups to make sure the process produced a basing structure that will support the MORE

Armed services YMCA honors Woman's Day magazine May 13, 2005 — Thanksgiving and Christmas were a few months away and Stephanie Abarbanel, senior articles editor for Woman's Day magazine, started thinking about service members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan not being home with their families -- particularly their children -- during the holidays. Her compassion for those left behind prompted her to do MORE

BRAC 2005: cross-service groups enhance joint efforts May 13, 2005 — "We train joint, we fight joint, we might as well live joint," is how Charles S. Abell summarizes the Defense Department's recommendations to the Base Realignment and ClosureCommission.Abell, principal deputy to the Undersecretary for Personnel and Readiness, chaired the joint cross-service group working on training and education issues in MORE

Famous Marine, actor encourages wounded troops May 13, 2005 — A man who probably is best known as the Marine drill instructor from the movie "Full Metal Jacket" and as host of the History Channel's "Mail Call" program visited recovering troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center here May 12. "I thought I'd come down and see how they're treating you down here," R. Lee Ermey told one of the patients he visited MORE

Gala event raises funds for USO, troop support programs May 13, 2005 — Celebrities, entertainers and supporters gathered here May 12 to express thanks for the country's men and women in uniform and to raise money for programs of the United Service Organizations of Metropolitan Washington that support them. The USO's Stars and Stripes, Diamonds and Clubs Benefit raised more than $10,000 for the organization's MORE

BRAC 2005: closings, realignments to reshape infrastructure May 13, 2005 — The Defense Department has recommended closing 33 major bases and realigning 29 others as part of a comprehensive reshaping of the military infrastructure through the base realignment and closure process.Michael Wynne, defense undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, announced Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's closure and MORE

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