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Military Coast Guard News Center
Military Coast Guard News Center
Texas CG Responds Grounded Vessels
Officer Receives ESPN Award
Pacific Northwest Buoy Repairs Continue
Afghanistan Drives Pentagon Fuel Deals
The Pentagon spent about $4.8 billion on fuel and liquid propellants in 2009, making them the third-highest expense for the U.S. military last year, according to an Aerospace DAILY analysis of federal contracting data provided by the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting.
Member of the Month: David Lebrecht
Operations Spc. 1st Class David Lebrecht looks out on a world that is sometimes very cold. It can't be helped. The Illinois-born Lebrecht currently lives in Juneau, Alaska, where he's an operations specialist 1st class with the 17th District of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Report Calls for Coast Guard Budget Boost
Twelve of the nineteen U.S. Coast Guard cutters that were sent to Haiti to respond to January's devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake required emergency maintenance while en route, and two had to be recalled from operations for emergency dry-dock repairs, according to a new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP).
Costly Agent Orange-Heart Disease Link Looms
The cost of war -- on veteran's-- health and taxpayer wallets -- will loom a little larger in the new year when the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) issues a final rule to claim adjudicators to presume three more diseases of Vietnam veterans, including heart disease, were caused by exposure to Agent Orange.
Weak Economy Draws Middle-Class Recruits
Middle-class American youth are entering the military in significant numbers today, drawn by more competitive pay, a battered civilian job market and the buzz surrounding an improved GI Bill education benefit.
Pentagon Budget Provides a Short-term View
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was not in the room when the Pentagon unveiled its first budget request under the Obama administration on May 7. But, he did not need to be. His fingerprints are all over its themes of reform and unconventional warfare, as well as its omissions.
Obama Defense Budget To Feature Scrutiny
The Obama administration will move toward forcing all non-warfighting related defense spending under the regular, congressionally authorized lawmaking process in the coming years.
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