Monat: Juli 2011

WASHINGTON, July 25, 2011 — Steps to curb transna­tion­al orga­nized crime, as addressed in a White House ini­tia­tive announced today, are impor­tant to sev­er­ing funding … 

WASHINGTON, July 25, 2011 — An Inter­na­tion­al Secu­ri­ty Assis­tance Force heli­copter crashed in east­ern Afghanistan today, mil­i­tary offi­cials reported. 

WASHINGTON, July 25, 2011 — America’s nation­al secu­ri­ty strat­e­gy pri­or­i­ties for the Asia-Pacif­ic region encom­pass both a bur­geon­ing rela­tion­ship with Chi­na and endur­ing secu­ri­ty commitments … 

WASHINGTON, July 22, 2011 — Leon E. Panet­ta took the oath of office as the nation’s 23rd sec­re­tary of defense in a Pen­ta­gon cer­e­mo­ny today. … 

Stephen Smith — Inter­view with Philip Clark, Radio Nation­al Break­fast PHILIP CLARK: Well, the sit­u­a­tion in Afghanistan will be the top pri­or­i­ty when Defence Min­is­ter Stephen … 

HMAS Toowoom­ba has suc­cess­ful­ly con­clud­ed com­mand of a mul­ti-nation­al exer­cise with Turk­ish Navy ves­sels and French Mirage fight­ers, con­tribut­ing to mar­itime secu­ri­ty in the Bab … 

An Aus­tralian sol­dier par­tic­i­pat­ing in Exer­cise Tal­is­man Sabre 2011 has been admit­ted to a Bris­bane hos­pi­tal after being seri­ous­ly injured in an Armoured Per­son­nel Carrier … 

WASHINGTON, July 22, 2011 — Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma, Defense Sec­re­tary Leon E. Panet­ta and Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, the chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of … 

Min­is­ter for Defence Materiel Jason Clare today announced that six addi­tion­al Iro­quois heli­copters will be reserved for sale to his­tor­i­cal organisations. 

WASHINGTON, July 22, 2011 — Based on rec­om­men­da­tions from mil­i­tary lead­ers, Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma has cer­ti­fied to Con­gress that the U.S. armed forces are prepared … 

The Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels’ con­tri­bu­tion to sup­port­ing Aus­tralians in Papua New Guinea dur­ing the Sec­ond World War has been hon­oured today at a cer­e­mo­ny in … 

NAVY Northrop Grum­man Sys­tems Corp., Beth­page, N.Y., is being award­ed a $760,783,000 mod­i­fi­ca­tion to a pre­vi­ous­ly award­ed firm-fixed-price con­tract (N00019-10-C-0044) for the man­u­fac­ture and delivery … 

Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary for Defence Sen­a­tor the Hon. David Feeney will trav­el to Papua New Guinea (PNG) with Deputy Sec­re­tary Strat­e­gy Peter Jen­nings to review progress … 

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. — With realign­ments, base clo­sures and joint bas­ing ini­tia­tives bring­ing togeth­er all four ser­vices here, the Air Force’s 87th Logis­tics Readiness … 

                   This week the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard announced a decrease in acti­vat­ed reservists, while the Air Force announced an increase. The …