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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 8. Juni 2005 / Time Line June 8, 2005
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Rumsfeld Signs Pre-positioning Agreement With Norway
By Kathleen T. Rhem
American Forces Press Service
STAVANGER, Norway, June 8, 2005 - Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld and his Norwegian counterpart today signed an agreement
here to allow U.S. Marines to pre-position military equipment in
Norway for use should they ever have to come to this country's
aid.
The memorandum of understanding Rumsfeld and Norwegian Defense
Minister Kristin Krohn Devold signed today revises an existing
agreement, in place since 1981, that provided for an expeditionary
brigade's worth of equipment to be stored at Trondelag, Norway, as
part of the U.S. plan to reinforce Norway's defenses during the
Soviet era.
The new agreement, called the Marine Corps Pre-positioning Program
Norway, more accurately reflects the current regional security
environment, according to a joint statement issued by the two
officials after a meeting this morning.
NATO's Iraqi, ISAF Training Site in Norway Hosts Rumsfeld
Visit
By Kathleen T. Rhem
American Forces Press Service
STAVANGER, Norway, June 8, 2005 - Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld today visited NATO's Joint Warfare Center here, where
Iraqi troops and international forces in NATO's International
Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan have trained.
Roughly 50 Iraqi "key leaders" have participated in the JWC's
10-day training program, and NATO has sent three iterations of
troops preparing for the ISAF mission in Afghanistan through the
center here.
"The kinds of things that NATO, Norway, the United States and other
countries are doing in the world today are notably different from
earlier periods," Rumsfeld said in a combined news conference with
Norwegian Defense Minister Kristin Krohn Devold. "The things
they're doing in Iraq and Afghanistan are being done with large
numbers of countries that have not worked on those projects before
individually, and have certainly never worked on those kinds of
projects before together."
The Joint Warfare Center, established here in October 2003, allows
international forces to train together before deploying into an
operational environment.
06/08/2005
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
The Raytheon Co., Waltham, Mass., is being awarded an indefinite
delivery/indefinite quantity contract to provide logistics support
services to operate and maintain up to four forward based X-Band
Radar - transportable radars to support the Ballistic Missile
Defense System. The principal place of performance will be at
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems in Woburn, Mass., and the
period of performance is from 26 May 2005 through 25 May 2010. The
maximum potential value of the contract is $260,900,000. The
Missile Defense Agency is the contracting activity
(HQ0006-05-C-0016.)
06/08/2005
Soldiers' Divorce Rates Up Sharply : Separation, stress erode
marriages
By Gregg Zoroya
USA Today
The number of active-duty soldiers getting divorced has been rising
sharply with deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq.
The trend is severest among officers. Last year, 3,325 Army
officers' marriages ended in divorce up 78% from 2003, the
year of the Iraq invasion, and more than 31/2 times the number in
2000, before the Afghan operation, Army figures show. For enlisted
personnel, the 7,152 divorces last year were 28% more than in 2003
and up 53% from 2000. During that time, the number of soldiers has
changed little.
The Army has no comparable data for past wars.
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