United States Global Defense Posture: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, Hearings Held, February 26, June 18, November 5, 19, 2003, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005 - 421 pages |
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... active duty Mr. Andy Hoehn and Mr. J.D. Crouch both came to Heidelberg for briefings on my views on how to reshape Army capabili- ties in EUCOM . These views were known to Secretary of the Army Tom White and Army Chief of Staff Ric ...
... active duty Mr. Andy Hoehn and Mr. J.D. Crouch both came to Heidelberg for briefings on my views on how to reshape Army capabili- ties in EUCOM . These views were known to Secretary of the Army Tom White and Army Chief of Staff Ric ...
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... Active duty Marine Corps in- fantry battalions and 4 of 9 Reserve battalions are not within our shores . On the Navy side , during our Operation Iraqi Freedom , 7 of 12 carrier battle groups were deployed simultaneously . Approximately ...
... Active duty Marine Corps in- fantry battalions and 4 of 9 Reserve battalions are not within our shores . On the Navy side , during our Operation Iraqi Freedom , 7 of 12 carrier battle groups were deployed simultaneously . Approximately ...
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... responsibilities . I want to coach my kid's little league football team . And I want to pursue a career . And if I am an ... active duty force , and when we have an emergency , then we use it as backup ? Secretary WOLFOWITZ . We have an ...
... responsibilities . I want to coach my kid's little league football team . And I want to pursue a career . And if I am an ... active duty force , and when we have an emergency , then we use it as backup ? Secretary WOLFOWITZ . We have an ...
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... active duty . Those are big issues , and we have got to come to some important changes fairly quickly , I think , in order to avoid the problems that you have been talking about . Mr. HEFLEY . I would agree , and I hope we will look at ...
... active duty . Those are big issues , and we have got to come to some important changes fairly quickly , I think , in order to avoid the problems that you have been talking about . Mr. HEFLEY . I would agree , and I hope we will look at ...
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... Active member is unless you ask them , be- cause their performance on the ... duty mission , and we are about the business of culling those out and ... Service for the Chairman , so he can provide that data to the Sec- retary . But this ...
... Active member is unless you ask them , be- cause their performance on the ... duty mission , and we are about the business of culling those out and ... Service for the Chairman , so he can provide that data to the Sec- retary . But this ...
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Page 124 - The President The White House Washington. DC 20500 Dear Mr. President: This is a critical week for our nation and for the world.
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Page 115 - The subcommittee will come to order. This afternoon, we will receive testimony from the Air Force and the General Accounting Office (GAO) on the Air Force airborne tanker fleet.