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Tag Archives: Mo.
National Guard battles flood waters in four states
This week almost 300 National Guard members from four states are helping to prepare for future floods and recover from past flood damage. Task Force Northwest is commanded by Air Force Col. Mike Pankau of the 139th Airlift Wing, based … Continue reading
Posted in Air Force
Tagged 2nd Lt. John Quin, emergency operations centers, Guard, Missouri, Mo., St. Joseph
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Officials choose bases for MQ-1, MQ-9 ground control stations
Air Force officials released their basing decision for the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper ground control stations June 21. The final bases approved by the secretary and chief of staff of the Air Force are: Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo. and … Continue reading
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Tagged AFB, Air, Ellsworth, Kathleen Ferguson, Mo., S.D., whiteman air force base
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Guardsmen, senators rip Air Force C-130 plan
Guardsmen and lawmakers are up in arms over an Air Force plan to cut 21 C-130 Hercules aircraft from the Air National Guard’s inventory in fiscal 2011. The Air Force’s budget calls for 12 C-130s to be transferred from several … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Ark., Arkansas, Bond, c 130 hercules, Delaware, General Allen Tackett, Georgia, Guard, Illinois, Little Rock, Maj. Gen. Gus Hargett, Minnesota, Mo., Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Patrick Leahy, Puerto Rico, R., Secretary Michael Donley, Texas, U.S. Air, United States, Vt., West Virginia
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Air Force cutting its fighter fleet
By fall, 250 fighters will be in the boneyard and the 4,000 airmen who fly or fix them will have new jobs, according to an officer overseeing the aircraft drawdown.The first planes head for retirement April 1; if all goes … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Base, Alaska, Ariz., Base, Col. Jack Forsythe, D Eagles, Davis-Monthan, England, f 117, Fighter, Fla., Force Base, Fort Wayne, Ga., Germany, Hawaii, Ind., La., Luke Air, Mo., N.M., Noble Eagle, President Obama, S OUTChanges, South Korea, Utah, Va.
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Concurrent receipt may not be properly funded
Just days after the Obama administration announced plans to provide full concurrent receipt of disability and military retired pay to eligible veterans by Jan. 1, 2015, a key House committee chairman threw a bucket of cold water on the initiative.Rep. … Continue reading
Posted in Benefits
Tagged committee, Ga., Marshall, Mo., Rep. Ike Skelton, Rep. Jim Marshall, retirement trust fund
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Concurrent receipt may not be properly funded
Just days after the Obama administration announced plans to provide full concurrent receipt of disability and military retired pay to eligible veterans by Jan. 1, 2015, a key House committee chairman threw a bucket of cold water on the initiative.Rep. … Continue reading
Posted in Benefits
Tagged committee, Ga., Marshall, Mo., Rep. Ike Skelton, Rep. Jim Marshall, retirement trust fund
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3 bomber wings join Global Strike Command
The right airmen — and more of them — will help Global Strike Command balance the nuclear and conventional missions of its three bomber wings, its top leader says.Lt. Gen. Frank Klotz has been forthright since his nuclear command stood … Continue reading
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Tagged Base, Command, La., Lt. Gen. Frank Klotz, Minot, Mo., N.D, whiteman air force base
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Firm employs large number of Pentagon mentors
In a marketplace awash in consulting firms that help defense companies sell to the Pentagon, the Durango Group has a unique advantage. The Colorado-based firm has become a base of operations for retired officers who also are handsomely paid by … Continue reading
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Tagged Ariz., Col. Larry Chodzko, Colo., Defense, Durango, Galen, Gen. Gregory, Martin, Mo., private equity firms, Robert Bishop, Ronald Fogleman, Sen. Claire McCaskill, Sen. John McCain, William Arkin
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Mentors hired, fired in discreet fashion
The Pentagon’s Joint Forces Command fired a former top U.S. commander in Iraq from his role as paid adviser to the military after he publicly criticized the Bush administration’s conduct of the Iraq war, according to interviews with command officials … Continue reading
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Tagged ABU, abu ghraib prison, Allen Hamilton, Command, Douglas Deets, Gen. Sanchez, Germany, Iraq, John Sokolowski, Kathleen Jabs, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, Maj. Gen. David Edgington, Mo., President Bush, Robert Gates, Sen. Claire McCaskill, U.S., Virginia, Washington
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Gates orders review of military mentor program
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered a review of what he considers “obscene” compensation paid to retired senior officers advising the military under senior mentor programs, and he also wants changes to guard against potential conflicts of interest, his spokesman … Continue reading