In an attempt to lessen environmental damage, Commandant of the Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said the Coast Guard has begun to burn the oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Read more about the response to the oil spill.
The Army’s Surgeon General, Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker, says caring for Wounded Warriors is a concern for all of the Army, not just the medical community. To read the AFPS article on Defense.gov, click here.
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Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is traveling the country to speak with leaders and organizations at the community level about issues facing veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today he’s in Morgantown, W.Va., yesterday he was in Pittsburgh, Pa., for his “Conversations with the Country” tour.
Here’s a video of Mullen speaking at Columbia University in New York City:
A suspected pirate skiff burns after being destroyed by the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jason R. Zalasky
A top U.S. Navy official said commercial fleets should take a new measure to avoid the threat of piracy off the horn of Africa: lock’n'load.
Navy Adm. Mark P. Fitzgerald, commander of U.S. naval forces in Europe and Africa and of NATO’s Allied Joint Task Force Command Naples, told Pentagon reporters that the scope of the piracy problem is too great to be policed by military vessels alone.
“We could put a World War II fleet of ships out there,” Fitzgerald said, referring to the Gulf of Aden and the Mozambique Channel off the Indian coast, “and we still wouldn’t be able to cover the whole ocean.”
The problem of Somali piracy goes back to the nation’s government, Fitzgerald said. Without a strong government that can confront the problem within its borders, the root of piracy won’t be removed.
In the near-term, Fitzgerald said it is “incumbent upon the vessels who are sailing the high seas to either protect themselves or accept the dangers.”
“Commercial ships should take appropriate protections,” he added, “because we cannot offer 100-percent guarantees of protection as the ships go through.”
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Tax Day is Thursday, April 15, but that doesn’t represent the final deadline for servicemembers on a deployment.
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German soldiers of 2nd Company, 1st Battalion, 40th Mechanized Infantry Regiment pull security during an Operational Mentor Liaison Team (OMLT) training exercise at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany. OMLT XXIII and Police Operational Mentor Liaison Team VII training are designed to prepare teams for deployment to Afghanistan with the ability to train, advise, and enable the Afghan National Security Force in areas such as counter-insurgency, combat advisory, and force enabling support operations. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Ian Schell (DVIDS)
While flying over Colorado a B-2 Stealth Bomber from Whiteman Air Force Base, MO, moves into position for a mid-air refueling via the boom of a KC-135R Stratotanker from the 128th Air Refueling Wing, Milwaukee on 09 May, 2012. The B-2 Stealth bomber and the KC-135 crews conducted the aerial refueling to maintain mission readiness standards.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt Jeremy M. Wilson (DVIDS)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police assigned to a Marine Security Emergency Response Team debark from the HMCS Ville de Quebec (FFH 332) to conduct boarding operations during Exercise Frontier Sentinel 2012 May 8, 2012 at sea off Sydney, Nova Scotia. Exercise Frontier Sentinel is a combined interagency exercise involving Joint Task Force Atlantic, the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy Fleet Forces Command. The exercise is designed to continue to develop and validate the existing plans, treaties and standard operation procedures for a bilateral response to maritime homeland defense and security threats.
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ernesto Hernandez Fonte / Released) (DVIDS)
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