Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 29. december 2004 / Time Line December 29, 2004
Version 3.528. December 2004, 30. December 2004
12/29/2004
US National Guard and Reserve Mobilized as of 29 December
2004
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2004/d20041229.pdf
This week, the Air Force announced an increase in the number of
reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization,
while the Army, Navy and Coast Guard had a decrease and the Marine
Corps number remained the same. The net collective result is 198
more reservists mobilized than last week. At any given time,
services may mobilize some units and individuals while demobilizing
others, making it possible for these figures to either increase or
decrease. Total number currently on active duty in support of the
partial mobilization for the Army National Guard and Army Reserve
is 159,972; Naval Reserve, 3,386; Air National Guard and Air Force
Reserve, 11,822; Marine Corps Reserve, 10,403; and the Coast Guard
Reserve, 981. This brings the total National Guard and Reserve
personnel, who have been mobilized, to 186,564 including both units
and individual augmentees.
12/29/2004
DoD Identifies Navy Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor who
was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Navy Seaman Pablito Pena Briones, Jr., 22, of Anaheim, Calf., died
Dec. 28 of a non-hostile gun shot wound in Fallujah, Iraq.
Briones was assigned to 1st Marine Division Detachment, Naval
Medical Center San Diego.
The incident is under investigation.
12/29/2004
Kosher Firm Finds Military Niche : 2 Chicago operations are
the sole suppliers of ready-to-eat meals for GIs who follow Jewish
and Muslim diets
By Russell Working, Chicago Tribune staff reporter
There was a time when military members who adhered to Jewish or
Islamic dietary requirements often faced the choice of violating
their consciences or lugging their own rations in their duffel
bags.
But nowadays observant Jewish and Muslim troops in places such as
Afghanistan and Iraq can dine guilt-free on meals such as chicken
Mediterranean or Florentine lasagna from two Chicago companies that
produce military rations.
The kosher firm My Own Meals Inc. and its Islamic-oriented spinoff,
J&M Co., are the military's sole providers of Meals Ready to
Eat--a form of prepackaged rations--that meet the standards of the
Jewish and Muslim diets.
Produced under the eye of Jewish or Muslim inspectors, the meals
have found a market niche in serving troops whose needs the
Pentagon had overlooked until the mid-1990s.
The military long ago abandoned its much-maligned C rations in
favor of MREs, which feature dinners like pork ribs and beef
enchiladas. These don't have to be refrigerated and can be heated
in a pouch with a chemical element that boils when water is
added.
But Muslims and kosher-eating Jews can't consume pork, and there
are other requirements. For example, Muslims may not consume food
prepared with alcohol, while Jews may not eat shellfish, or dairy
and meat together.
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