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Subject: IAVA News Brief- July 25, 2014
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:16:31 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Friday July 25, 2014
Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Dustin Letson conducts morning colors aboard the amphibious assault ship Bataan off the coast of Manama, Bahrain. | Military Times >>
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| TODAY'S TOP STORIES |
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| AFGHANISTAN |
Nine company commanders are among 48 captains on active duty in Afghanistan that are slated to be fired under a Pentagon cost-cutting plan, officials said Thursday. | Washington Times >>
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is forking over millions of dollars for a soybean program in Afghanistan that's running into major problems, with Afghan farmers slow to embrace a product that few Afghans ate before. | Fox News >>Gunmen riding on a motorcycle opened fire and killed two Finnish women aid workers in the western Afghan city of Herat on Thursday, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks on foreign civilians that has rattled aid workers, contractors and journalists. | Associated Press >>
Seemingly endless squabbles are interrupted by full-scale shouting matches. Campaign aides mutter suspiciously about what foreign visitors might be up to. And ballot boxes are piling up, waiting to be cracked open and examined for signs of fraud. | New York Times >>
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| IRAQ |
Kurdish politician Fouad Massoum has been named the new president of Iraq following a parliamentary vote. Massoum, 76, is one of the founders of current President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party. He is considered a soft-spoken moderate, known for keeping good relations with Sunni and Shiite Arab politicians. | Associated Press >> Each day, Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq skirmish with fearsomely armed Islamic State militants along their new, nearly 650-mile border. The Kurds have held their own so far. But without fresh arms supplies or financial assistance their fight is unsustainable, a senior Kurdish official said. | Washington Post >>
An influential Democratic senator threatened Thursday to block U.S. arms sales to Iraq if Congress doesn't get an assessment of Iraqi forces and assurances the weapons won't fall into the hands of extremist militants. | Associated Press >> |
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
The Army's vice chief of staff, Gen. John Campbell, was confirmed Wednesday as the next commander for NATO's International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces in Afghanistan. Campbell will replace Marine Gen. Joseph "Fighting Joe" Dunford as ISAF commander. Dunford was confirmed at the Wednesday hearing as the 36th commandant of the Marine Corps. | Military Times >> Miller and his explosives-sniffing dog Thor spent every day of their 2010 tour in Afghanistan together. But when the tour ended in November 2010, Miller returned to the U.S. while Thor worked four more years before his retirement. The pair reunited in May. | USA Today >>
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Letter from the Editor: It has been one year since we launched Defense One, Atlantic Media's newest brand providing daily news, analysis and bold ideas on the future of national security. | Defense One >>
A Marines suspected of deserting his unit on two occasions has had charges preferred by military authorities. Officials are investigating whether to formally charge Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, 34, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice with desertion, destruction of government property, and larceny, officials with II Marine Expeditionary Force, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C. said Thursday morning. | Military Times >>
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
Over two years ago, Sergeant Matt Krumwiede was on patrol in Afghanistan when he stepped on an improvised explosive device which tore away both his legs and left the rest of his body gravely injured. | Reuters >> Surrounded by crime, inequality and a lack of opportunity is a quarter-acre farm in East Oakland, California. U.S. Navy veteran and Oakland native Kelly Carlisle is trying to change all that by inspiring a young group of local children through farming. | ABC News >>
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An Army veteran dad and his son are recovering after dad gave 4-year-old Kyle Morrison a kidney. According to the COTA for Kyle DM Facebook page, Kyle and Shane Morrison's surgery at St. Louis Children's Hospital Thursday morning went well, and the pair are recuperating. | KSDK St. Louis >>
Oskar Zepeda lost his childhood dream of being a soldier on Sept. 8, 2011, in Logar Province, Afghanistan, but he's found a new way to continue serving his country -- and protect its children. | Fox News >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
The newest generation of combat veterans is struggling with integration into civilian life, confronted by suicidal thoughts, mental-health issues, unemployment and the inability to get timely assessments of their disability claims, according to a nationwide survey of 2,089 members of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. | USA Today >>
One of the frequent boasts out of members of the Senate and House Veterans Affairs committees is that they serve on the most bipartisan panel in Congress because they believe the veteran should come first. But that bipartisanship was absent Thursday as GOP and Democrat members of the two committees came out offering and endorsing competing proposals aimed at reaching compromise veterans legislation. | Military.com >> |
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