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USA: Army Specialist Suzanne Swift might face desertion charges
War Resisters' International, London, 15 June 2006
US Army Specialist Suzanne Swift was arrested by police on Sunday, 10 June.
Suzanne Nicole Swift (US14796), 21, refused to deploy with her Army unit to Iraq
for a second tour. After Swift became part of the military police, her company
was deployed to Iraq in February 2004. She was stationed in Karbala, about 60
miles southwest of Baghdad. She came home to Fort Lewis in February 2005,
believing she had the standard 18 months decompression time before she would be
redeployed.
Then Swift was asked to sign a waiver agreeing to return to Iraq early, in
January, 11 months after returning to the United States. It was the last thing
Swift wanted to do, her mother Rich said. Having seen the war first-hand, she
had profound doubts about it, and had told her mother she thought the war lacked
purpose and that no one had benefited from the U.S. presence in Iraq.
While she was in Iraq, she wrote to Rich about being repeatedly sexually
harassed by Army staff and was always anxious about being assaulted, Rich said.
She didn't complain because she thought it would make things worse, Rich said.
Days before the redeployment in January, Swift was packed and ready to go, but
then broke down, car keys in hand, Rich said.
"She turned to me in the kitchen and said, `I can't go back there.' I said,
`Good, don't do it,' " Rich said.
So Swift stayed behind when the 54th Military Police Company returned to Iraq.
First she stayed with a friend in Brookings on the Southern Oregon Coast, but in
May, she came back to Eugene and moved in with her mother.
Rich arranged for her to speak with an attorney and begin seeing a psychologist
for help with post traumatic stress disorder. She said she would rather see her
daughter imprisoned for desertion than returned to Iraq.
Fort Lewis Army spokesman Joe Hitt confirmed that Swift would be returned to
Fort Lewis, but declined to discuss her situation further. He said that her
company commander will determine appropriate punishment and that no decision had
been made in her case.
War Resisters' International calls for letters of protest to the US authorities,
or US embassies abroad. A protest email to US President George W. Bush can be
sent at
http://wri-irg.org/co/alerts/20060615a.html.
06/15/2006
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Orlando, Fla., is being
awarded a $440,000,000 indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to
provide for Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile, an indefinite
delivery/indefinite quantity life-cycle support including program upgrades,
production sustainment, integration, testing and studies. Specific examples
include but are not limited to: F-15 integration, foreign Military Sales, and
product upgrade verification. The Air Force can issue delivery orders
totaling up to the maximum amount indicated above, although the actual
requirements may be less than the amount indicated above. The location of
performance is Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fir Control, Orlando Fla. and
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Troy, Ala. No funds have been obligated this
time. This work will be complete by May 2012. Solicitations began February
2006 and negotiations were complete May 2006. The Headquarters 308th Armament
Systems Wing, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is the contracting activity. For
more information, contact the Air Armament Center Public Affairs at (850)
882-2936. (FA8682-06-D-0072)
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being
awarded a $187,126,000 firm fixed price contract modification to provide for
an extension to advanced buy period of performance and increase obligation
amount. The extended period is June 2006 through September 2006. This action
supports F-22A Lot 7. The location of performance is Lockheed Martin
Aeronautics Co., Marietta, Ga. (33%) and Fort Worth, Texas (35%); and The
Boeing Co., Information and Space Defense Systems, Aircraft and Missile
Systems, Seattle, Wash. (32%). Total funds have been obligated. This work
will be complete October 2009. The Headquarters Aeronautical Systems Center,
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity.
(FA8611-06-C-2899/P00005)
General Atomics-Aeronautical Systems, San Diego, Calif., is being
awarded a $25,151,451 cost plus fixed fee term contract. This option exercise
includes all program management, urgent repairs and services, logistics
support, configuration management, technical manual and software maintenance,
engineering technical services, contractor engineering technical specialists
(formerly field support representatives), contractor inventory control point
(formerly depot supply support) and spares management, depot repair, flight
operations support, reliability/maintenance enhancements, CAMS/REMIS/CEMS data
collection/entry and numbered periodic depot maintenance for the Predator MQ-1
and MQ-9 unmanned aircraft system program. Total funds have been obligated.
This work will be complete December 2006. The Headquarters Aeronautical
Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting
activity. (FA8620-05-G-3028 001103)
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