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Subject: IAVA's Daily News Brief- July 9, 2014
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 07:27:29 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Wednesday July 9, 2014
Sailors prepare a national ensign on the flight deck of the guided-missile destroyer Arleigh Burke in the Arabian Gulf. Arleigh Burke is deployed in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts. | Military Times >>
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| TODAY'S TOP STORIES |
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| AFGHANISTAN |
An attack in eastern Afghanistan killed four NATO service members and 12 others Tuesday. The Czech Defense Ministry said the four soldiers killed were Czech nationals. The soldiers were patrolling an area in Bagram when a suicide bomber on a bicycle detonated his explosives vest, said Wahid Sediqi, a spokesman for the governor of Parwan province. | CNN >> A suicide bomber killed four NATO service members, 10 civilians and two police officers at a medical clinic in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said. The attack took place amid deteriorating security as most soldiers from International Security Assistance Force -- the NATO-run international force -- prepare to leave the country after 12 years of war against the Taliban. | NBC News >>
Afghan Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah on Tuesday said he received calls from President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry after he refused to accept the preliminary result of the vote citing fraud. | Associated Press >>
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| IRAQ |
With one hand, Zahra Hassan clutches a purse that matches her red blouse and skirt trimmed in blue. In the other, she holds an AK-47. Peering through her blue veiled hijab, the traditional Muslim head cover, the petite 25-year-old watches as the man in a military uniform with no insignia shows her how to switch off the rifle's safety, take aim and fire. | CNN >> Iraq's government has lost control of a former chemical weapons facility to "armed terrorist groups" and is unable to fulfill its international obligations to destroy toxins kept there, the country's U.N. envoy told the United Nations. | Reuters >>
Iraq is tearing itself apart. Its government has lost control of large parts of the country; intercommunal violence is rife and al Qaeda is resurgent. A description not of 2014 but 2006 -- and a situation that led Joseph R. Biden, then a U.S. Senator and now Vice President, to argue that it was time to split Iraq into three parts: Kurdish, Shia and Sunni. | CNN >> |
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
As of Tuesday, July 8, 2014, at least 2,194 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. | Associated Press >> A new federal registry of U.S. troops and veterans possibly sickened by toxic smoke in Iraq and Afghanistan has gathered nearly 11,000 eligible names -- including the ill airman who inspired the site but expected to die before it launched. | NBC News >>
(Via NBC News)
The Department of Defense could save as much as $19 billion over the next decade by replacing 70,000 military personnel with civilian employees, a Congressional Budget Office report shows. | Al.com >>
In Tennessee and across the nation, we know that America's military mission is expanding - into humanitarian relief, emergency and disaster response and forward operations. Americans need our troops to be prepared and ready to act when needed. | The Tennessean >>
It was a mother's worst nightmare. On March 31, 2014, at 11 p.m., I received a phone call from my 25-year-old son. "Mom. I got lost, made a wrong turn and ended up at the Mexico border. I've been surrounded by military, and I need you to know in case anything happens to me." | CNN >>
The activities of users of Twitter and other social media services were recorded and analysed as part of a major project funded by the US military, in a program that covers ground similar to Facebook's controversial experiment into how to control emotions by manipulating news feeds. | The Guardian >>
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
Stacy Bare is the director for Sierra Club Outdoors, an environmental organization that has been around since 1892 that gets 250,000 people outdoors nationwide each year through a network of 5,000 volunteer leaders and a small staff. One of Sierra Club's main programs, Military Outdoors, run by Josh Brandon, provides service members, veterans, and their families opportunities, exposure and access to the great outdoors. | Task & Purpose >>Decorated Vietnam veteran Pat Toro has lost his final battle. The former Marine and fierce veterans' advocate died at St. Francis Hospital on Long Island on Thursday - less than a year after he was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood disorder that can lead to leukemia. | NY Daily News >>
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The second Wounded Warriors Guide Service Take a Vet Fishing Tournament on Leech Lake attracted more than twice as many as last year's event. Held as an appreciation for the service the veterans provide their country, 64 veterans and 34 guides took part. Last year there were about 30 vets and 18 guides. | Pilot Independent >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
House Republicans have requested nearly $3.3 million to operate the select committee investigating Benghazi, which gives the GOP-launched committee a bigger budget than that granted to the committee overseeing the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs. | Associated Press >>
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has released data that shows 80 percent of disability claims filed by Gulf War veterans for conditions related to the war have been denied, citing "inadequate and insufficient evidence" to indicate that the cancers, chronic fatigue and migraines they suffer from are service-related. | Washington Times >>
The Department of Veterans Affairs has made progress in whittling down the number of new patients in New Mexico who are on the troubled health care system's electronic waiting list. | Washington Post >> |
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