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Subject: IAVA Daily News Brief- July 16, 2014
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 07:18:10 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Wednesday July 16, 2014
A landing craft air cushion assigned to Assault Craft Unit 5 departs the well deck of the amphibious dock landing ship Rushmore Friday during the at-sea phase of exercise Rim of the Pacific 2014. | Military Times >>
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| TODAY'S TOP STORIES |
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| AFGHANISTAN |
A suicide bomber blew up a car packed with explosives near a busy market and a mosque in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 89 people in the deadliest insurgent attack on civilians since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. | Associated Press >> It was the Germans who uttered the first alarm that a potentially deadly power struggle might be brewing, after weeks of Western officials' staying on the sidelines as the Afghan election crisis deepened. Just over a week ago, they threatened to withdraw funding and training troops from Afghanistan if a powerful regional governor declared a breakaway government led by the presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah. | New York Times >>
The British Royal Air Force (RAF) has sent five new reconnaissance drones to Afghanistan to support intelligence operations in the country, the U.K. Ministry of Defence announced last week. The remotely piloted Reaper drones will beam real-time video to ground crews, and will conduct surveillance missions from the sky. | Live Science >>
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| IRAQ |
Iraqi lawmakers broke two weeks of deadlock Tuesday and elected a moderate Sunni as speaker of parliament, taking the first step toward forming a new government that is widely seen as crucial to confronting militants who have overrun much of the country. | Military Times >> U.S. Special Forces teams in Iraq will have to consider the "insider threat" posed by the Iraqi military before working more closely with them in an advisory role against Islamic militants, Pentagon officials said Monday. | Military.com >>
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
Air Force and Navy air worthiness authorities have given the green light for the F-35 fleet to return to flight, but the aircraft won't be able to participate in the world's preeminent international air show in England this week, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. | Stars and Stripes >> Long after completing a 2010 tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Capt. Adrian Kinsella felt haunted by the sense that he didn't uphold a core military commitment: Leave no one behind. | San Jose Mercury News >>
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Attorneys for a Guantanamo Bay detainee on a hunger strike say a U.S. military nurse has refused to conduct forced feedings of inmates. Abu Wa'el Dhiab has been at the U.S. Navy base on Cuba since August 2002, attorney Cori Crider told CNN. | CNN >>
The Department of Defense has 7,600 military installations across all 50 states and 40 foreign countries. They perform diverse functions, but they have one thing in common: climate change could cost them big in the coming decades unless adaptation measures are taken soon. | Scientific America >>
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
Like any active 30-year-old, Marine Capt. Derek Herrera is making the most of his life, serving on active duty in a special operations unit, racing in 10Ks and triathlons, earning his MBA and overseeing renovations of a house he just bought in San Clemente, California. | Military Times >> Jonathan White earned the nickname "crobot" at his part-time job at Finesse Pastries in Manchester, N.H., because he can produce 200 croissants in five hours - a task he is given 12 hours to complete. "I want to perfect everything I do," says White. "People see it as being an overachiever. I see it as being the typical Marine personality." | Boston Globe >>
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Gazette reporters caught up with army veteran Eric Peters as he reached the Medina County line on Route 18 Tuesday around 2 p.m. Peters is making his way into Medina today on a cross-country trip to raise awareness about veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. Peters started out in New Jersey a month ago bound for California. | Medina Gazette >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
Senate appropriators plan to fund only a 1 percent basic pay raise for troops next year and will go along with a Pentagon proposal to trim housing allowances in an effort to rein in personnel costs. | Navy Times >>
Lawmakers warn President Obama is shortchanging the military by calling it into action at the U.S. border without providing a boost in funding. "President Barack Obama has already decimated the military with budget cuts and the lack of overall strategy; now he's asking them to do more," said Senate Armed Services Committee ranking member James Inhofe (R-Okla.) in an op-ed published Monday. | The Hill >>
Veterans Affairs officials are scrambling to find reasons their promises can be trusted after more allegations of mismanagement and wrongdoing - this time with benefits claims - surfaced this week. | Navy Times >> |
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