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Ten-hut!By Rusty Dennen
Session for veterans, military families Nov. 9, 2009 1:55 pm On the eve of Veterans Day, Rep. Rob Wittman is holding a town hall-style forum for veterans and military families tomorrow night from 7-9 p.m. at the VFW Post 3103 in Fredericksburg. Wittman is a member of the House Armed Services Committee. The VFW Post is located at 26701 Princess Anne St.
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Nov. 6, 2009 12:52 pm
The San Francisco Veterans Center points out that, in the wake of the violence at the Texas Army post, service members, veterans and their families will need help sorting it out. It notes that they could be dealing with post-traumatic strees, depression, substance abuse or suicidal tendencies which could be triggered by the shootings. Some contacts: Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, 866-966-1020; Military OneSource, 800-342-9647; Veterans Administration Crisis Intervention Hotline, 888-899-9377; Veteran Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Hotline, 800 273-8255.
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Oct. 28, 2009 2:43 pm
The helicopter crash in Afghanistan on Monday that killed seven U.S. troops and three civilians has a Quantico connection. Working alongside Marines and Army Special Forces troops in the war zone are Drug Enforcement Administration who trained at the DEA training academy at Quantico. See my story in tomorrow's Free Lance-Star for more details.
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Oct. 23, 2009 2:51 pm
In Thursday's Free Lance-Star I wrote about Paul Mann of Stafford who heads up the MRAP (Mine Resistant Armor Protected) vehicle program at Quantico. He told me about the massive, $25 billion effort to quickly get MRAPs to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. A successor to the lighter Humvee, MRAPs offer significantly more protection against the most deadly threat--improvised explosive devices. In March 2008, Free Lance-Star Photographer Mike Mornes and I spent two weeks in Kuwait, embedded with an Army National Guard unit from Fredericksburg. The tiny nation on the Persian Gulf is a major conduit for war supplies flowing north into Iraq. While we were there we noticed that hundreds of the hulking vehicles were arriving for shipment. The MRAPs kept coming and coming. A soldier I was standing with as a column of them drove by one afternoon nodded in approval. Not far from where we were on patrol we saw Humvees--even tanks--that had been blown apart by IEDs and other explosives, stored in a big parking lot. This photo of newly delivered MRAPs was taken by Mann's team in Iraq.
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Oct. 7, 2009 11:59 am
It's gotten a lot of press in recent weeks. But when it's on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," that's a pretty good sign that things are moving along. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus told Stewart yesterday that the service will soon end its men-only policy on submarines. Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations, and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have also weighed in on the topic. Details (privacy, reconfiguring some areas aboard) still need to be worked out.
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Oct. 1, 2009 5:16 pm In case you missed it in the wee hours last night, there's another opportunity coming up to imagine there are UFOs flying over your house. On Saturday, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is conducting a second round of training flights between mid-morning and early afternoon. Small planes, helicopters and F-16s will cruise overhead around D.C. and the 'burbs. Exercise Falcon Virgo will hone NORAD's intercept and identification operations and test its National Capital Region visual warning system. For more details, click here.
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Sep. 29, 2009 3:40 pm A few months back I did a story about the transfer of two huge Naval guns from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division to the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg, Pa. The 14-inch guns were among 12 on the USS Pennsylvania, damaged in the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The cleaned-up guns were put on display Monday. Look for a follow-up story and pictures in The Free Lance-Star.
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Sep. 21, 2009 2:17 pm
There are now more than 400 of them: names inscribed on the granite columns of the Fredericksburg Area War Memorial. This morning, Booth Memorial Co. of Richmond was adding two more, for Ryan McGhee of Spotsylvania, and Mark Stratton of Stafford, who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in May. Staff Photographer Robert A. Martin shot this picture. For more on what's happening at the memorial, see tomorrow's Free Lance-Star.
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Sep. 11, 2009 2:43 pm
The Army this week released its August report on suicides. Among active duty soldiers there were potentially 11, all of which are pending determination of the manner of death. From January 2009 through August, there were 110, the Army says. For the same period in 2008 there were 88. Soldiers and families in need of assistance can call the military OneSource toll-free number. (For those residing in the continental United States it's 800 342-9647.) The online site is here.
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Sep. 9, 2009 4:09 pm Tomorrow, over 150 veterans will gather in Washington, D.C., to weigh in on the nation's dependence on fossil fuels, saying it's a threat to national security. They're part of Operation FREE, a coalition supporting action on climate change. Read about the organization at: http://www.operationfree.net/
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Sep. 8, 2009 3:28 pm Scientists and engineers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division look for new and better ways to protect ships and zap enemy forces and their equipment. Research and development at NSWC, the largest tenant command at the Naval Support Facility Dahlgren in King George, for example, has taken the rail gun from fantasy weapon of online gamers, to prototype. It shoots a projectile at tremendous speed using a pulse of electricity rather than propellent. Also on the horizon is a new generation of directed-energy weapons, which use lasers and radio waves for deadly effect. Read more about the Naval Directed Energy Center in my story in Thursday's Free Lance-Star.
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