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Fransk massakre i Madrid, 1809.
05/03/2005
Renembrance, Reconciliation, Art and Peace
Vth International Peace Museum Conference, Gerniko, starter.
05/03/2005
Survivors Of War Take Fatal Risks On Roads
By Gregg Zoroya, USA Today
USA Today
May 3, 2005
In the past seven months, 80 Army soldiers have died in vehicle
accidents. Most of them had just returned to the USA from the
combat zones of Iraq or Afghanistan. After experiencing Iraq, one
soldier explains, driving fast is like 'a drug - the newest crack
out there.' Now the surge in crash deaths has prompted the Army to
take action.
The statistics underscore the problem. From October 2003 to
September 2004, when troops first returned in large numbers from
Iraq, 132 soldiers died in vehicle accidents - a 28% jump from the
previous 12 months. Two-thirds of them were veterans of Iraq or
Afghanistan.
The deaths continue. In the past seven months, 80 soldiers died in
vehicle accidents - a 23% increase from the same period a year
earlier. Four out of five were veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq
wars. The numbers could be higher, but the statistics, tracked by
Army safety officials at the Readiness Center, don't include
soldiers who recently left the service, or those with the Army
Reserve or National Guard who have just been deactivated.
The Marine Corps faces a similar problem. Three years ago, its rate
of fatal vehicle accidents was almost double what the Army's is
today. The rate dropped after the Marines added an eight-hour
driving course to boot camp, but that drop flattened out when the
Iraq war began.
Today, the Marine rate remains somewhat higher than the Army's. But
the Army's rate is surging, and because the Army is much larger
than the Marine Corps, it loses almost three times as many people
to vehicle accidents.
05/03/2005
CONTRACTS from the United States Department
of Defense
Kollmorgen Corp., Electro-Optical Division, Northampton, Mass., is
being awarded a $12,718,876 fixed-price-incentive/firm-fixed price
modification under previously awarded contract (N00024-05-C-6241)
to exercise an option for production of six Integrated Submarine
Imaging Systems (ISIS), one SSN 688 Class submarine Major Shore
Spare, two ISIS SSGN Class production systems, with associated
On-Board Repair Parts (OBRP) and Installation and Checkout (INCO)
spares. The ISIS will provide mission critical, all weather,
visual, and electronic search, digital image management,
indication, warning, and platform architecture interface
capabilities for SSN 688, SSN 21, and SSGN Class submarines. Work
will be performed in Northampton, Mass., and is expected to be
completed by May 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of
the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington,
D.C., is the contracting activity.
05/03/2005
Army misses April recruiting goal by 42 percent
Tue May 3, 2005 05:41 PM ET
By Will Dunham
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8378239
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army missed its April recruiting
goal by a whopping 42 percent and the Army Reserve fell short by 37
percent, officials said on Tuesday, showing the depth of the
military's wartime recruiting woes.
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