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Subject: IAVA Daily News Brief- August 22, 2014
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 07:15:03 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Friday August 22, 2014
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An Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft pilot taxis to the flight line in Souda Bay, Greece during a training event between Greece and the United States. | Military Times >>
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TODAY'S TOP STORIES
AFGHANISTAN
As of Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, at least 2,200 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 >>Tens of thousands of volunteers fanned out across Afghanistan this week, braving deteriorating security and distrusting parents to administer two chilled drops of the oral polio vaccine each to millions of children. | Reuters >>
The last Marine Corps regimental headquarters will leave Afghanistan this month, handing off its responsibilities as drawdown efforts continue. | Military Times >>
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IRAQ
Ten days after America carried out its first air strike on August 8th against the Islamic State (IS) on Iraqi territory, government forces regained control of the biggest dam in the country, near Mosul, the country's second city. A ferocious al-Qaeda-inspired jihadist group that controls swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq and wants to turn the entire region into a caliphate, IS looks as if it is at last on the defensive in northern Iraq. | The Economist >>A defense attorney said Thursday that a Marine accused of deserting his unit a decade ago in Iraq was kept in Lebanon for eight years while he faced a military trial there. | Associated Press >>
U.S. jets dropped leaflets on the militant-held Iraqi city of Mosul urging residents to stand up extremist fighters who overran it last month, an eyewitness told NBC News on Thursday. A photograph of one of the leaflets - written in Arabic and stamped by Iraq's Ministry of Defense - was also posted on two Twitter accounts believed to be linked to Iraqi authorities. They contained a message urging citizens to support security forces against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), which was described as an "ignorant atheist expansion." The leaflets also said it was "time that we all stand together on the land of our sacred city." | NBC News >> |
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MILITARY AFFAIRS
Navy officials have decided to separate a 12-year African-American sailor for failing to obey an order to cut off her natural hairstyle. Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class (SW/AW) Jessica Sims confirmed to Navy Times that she will be honorably discharged Friday, after refusing to trim her locks, which she had worn most of her time in the Navy. After a delay on her discharge, officials ruled that Sims' locks were out of regs and that her bun was too bulky to be worn with a gas mask. | Navy Times >>
The Pentagon has dumped a bucket of cold water on servicemembers who want to take the ALS ice bucket challenge while in uniform. | Stars and Stripes >>
Lucas Davis thought he had already heard the worst by the time he met with a cancer specialist at the Department of Veterans Affairs last November. | Washington Examiner >> |
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NEW GREATEST GENERATION
Running a half marathon takes months of training and endurance. Four Navy SEALs are swimming that same distance Thursday morning to raise awareness and funds for Camp Sunshine. | NBC Portland >> As far as teammates come, they don't get much better than Saddleback College free safety Matt Sprouse. His fellow Gauchos just don't know it. Sprouse, a U.S. Army veteran twice deployed in Iraq, was on a mission to capture "a high-valued individual" in 2007 when his platoon was attacked in the middle of the night near a school. | Orange County Register >>
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After a local Marine who served in Afghanistan committed suicide two years ago, some combat veterans in Sussex County wanted to offer each other support. "I never wanted to see that happen to another brother again," said Wantage resident Matthew Johnson, who also served in Afghanistan as a Marine. From that tragedy, a post-traumatic stress support group for veterans formed in Andover Township. | New Jersey Herald >>
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INSIDE WASHINGTON
For all its horror, the beheading of an American journalist in Syria appears unlikely to change lawmakers' minds about military intervention against Islamic State extremists. It's equally unclear whether the Obama administration will be asking them to back a new U.S. approach. | Associated Press >>
More than two months after Sharon Helman was suspended as director of Phoenix's VA Health Care System, she remains on the payroll collecting regular checks and benefits despite passage of a new federal statute targeting accountability in the Department of Veterans Affairs. | The Arizona Republic >>
The Pentagon didn't give enough notice to Congress and misused nearly $1 million when it swapped Army Sgt. for five senior Taliban members, the Government Accountability Office says. The nonpartisan agency's findings led Defense officials to say they had to act quickly to free Bergdahl, who had been held for five years. | Associated Press >>
The Pentagon broke the law, when it transferred five Taliban detainees from Guantánamo Bay in exchange for prisoner of war Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, according to a report from a government watchdog agency. | The Hill >>
Two senators called Wednesday for an independent investigation into the handling of sexual assault cases at the Air Force Academy, saying they were concerned about "very serious allegations of wrongdoing." | New York Times >>
Allowing 18.8 million honorably-discharged veterans to shop online through military exchange services, which also operate brick-and-mortar department stores and concessions on base, could boost store profits enough to pump more than $100 million back into base quality-of-life programs. | Stars and Stripes >> |
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