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Who really supports our troops?(Insider Report)
Item: "Hundreds of sick and wounded U.S. soldiers including many who served in the Iraq war are languishing in hot cement barracks here while they wait--sometimes for months--to see doctors," reported a UPI dispatch from Fort Stewart, Georgia, on October 17. "The Reserve and National Guard soldiers are on what the Army calls 'medical hold,' while the Army decides how sick or disabled they are and what benefits--if any--they should get as a result." A few days after this report, Pentagon officials "shifted professional staff from regional medical facilities to Fort Stewart to help reduce the backlog where appropriate," according to a follow-up UPI story.
Item: The Bush administration, concerned about the public impact of television images of flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, "has ended the public dissemination of such images by banning news coverage and photography of dead soldiers' homecomings on all military bases," reported the October 21 Washington Post. In March, on the eve of the war, a Pentagon directive to all U.S. military bases banned "arrival ceremonies for, or media coverage of, deceased military personnel" returning from overseas. The policy, first issued in November 2000, "apparently ...
- Addressing Sprawl Issues and Protecting Biodiversity Can Benefit Military...
- News wire article from: AScribe Business & Economics News Service June 28, 2007 700+ words
...was created to assist military bases, which perform operations...buffering projects at six military bases in the United States...Carson (Colorado); Fort Stewart (Georgia); Marine...developments are built near military bases. The proximity of...
- War hits home for stores near military bases. (effect of Gulf War on Georgia...
- Magazine article from: Daily News Record Lloyd, Brenda January 28, 1991 700+ words
War Hits Home for Stores Near Military Bases ATLANTA - Deployment of troops to the...the men and women who were sent from Fort Stewart and Hunter Air Force Base to Saudi Arabia. Fort Stewart, based 45 miles away from Savannah in...
- Governor will build case in Washington for Georgia military bases.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News September 15, 2004 700+ words
...the state's largest bases, Fort Stewart and Fort Benning, not only should...proposed closing of some U.S. military bases overseas. "I think Georgia...installations at Fort Benning and Fort Stewart. The state has kept all of its...
- USO to Host Disney's 'Armed Forces Sneak Peek PremEARS'; Disney's Characters to...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 15, 2003 700+ words
...Norfolk, Va. * May 19 -- Camp Lejeune, N.C. * May 23 -- Fort Stewart, Ga. * May 27 -- NAS Pensacola, Fla. * May 29 -- Barksdale...000 videos and DVDs to families and personnel on U.S. military bases around the world and has provided a combination of first...
- Room to maneuver: sizing up a land grab.(military bases' land areas)(List)
- Magazine article from: Reason Garrison, Trey March 1, 2009 700+ words
...1 million acres * Fort Irwin (California): 642,000 acres * Edwards Air Force Base (California): 301,000 acres * Fort Stewart (Georgia): 280,000 acres * Fort Hood (Texas): 217,000 acres The area occupied by the expanded training ground would...
- Georgian experts on Russia's plan to station military bases in breakaway...
- Newspaper article from: BBC Monitoring International Reports August 31, 2008 700+ words
...the likely stationing of the Russian military bases in the breakaway regions of Abkhazia...protracted for as long as Russia maintains military bases in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The...Rezonansi on 29 August headlined "Russian military bases in Java, Gudauta and Ochamchire...
- Afghan paper takes a stance against US military bases in country.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire April 24, 2005 700+ words
...himself on giving the green light to US military bases in the country, but wait for parliament...motive behind establishing foreign military bases in the country?", published by Afghan...asked for the setting up of permanent military bases. The issue of establishing American...
- Latvia should welcome US military bases if they are offered - newspaper.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire March 5, 2003 700+ words
...America were to decide to put one of its military bases in Latvia, Latvia would benefit in...Juris Lorencs, entitled "Why not military bases?" and published in the Latvian newspaper...States might move at least some of its military bases from western Europe to the new NATO...
- DEFENSE: ACTIVISTS SEEK ABOLITION OF FOREIGN MILITARY BASES.
- News wire article from: Interpress Service March 7, 2007 700+ words
...network for the abolition of foreign military bases has been created at a conference attended...actions against the more than 1,000 military bases worldwide. Lina Cahuasqu , an activist...will analyze the impact of foreign military bases and local people's struggles against...
- U.S. Military Bases and Empire. (Review of the Month).
- Magazine article from: Monthly Review March 1, 2002 700+ words
...human history have relied on foreign military bases to enforce their rule, and in this...originally secured by this system of Roman military bases, "became just as much a part of the...empire secured by a global system of military bases. As Robert Harkavy has explained in...
Source: HighBeam Research, Who really supports our troops?(Insider Report)