Faizabad, Afghanistan, July 17 (CTK) - Czech soldiers serving in Afghanistan vaccinated local children against hepatitis in an orphanage in Faizabad on July 13, the Defence Ministry’s press and information service told CTK Tuesday.
 
The 5th contingent of the International Security Assistance Force’s Provincial Reconstruction Team (ISAF-PRT) in Afghanistan organises the vaccination project with the aid [...]

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Service members on 15-month deployments to support Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom will receive 18 days of R&R leave instead of the typical 15 days, the Defense Department announced Tuesday.
The policy change, contained in a memo signed July 13 by Dr. David Chu, undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, was effective the day [...]

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WASHINGTON (Army News Service, July 17, 2007) - The Army’s Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command, at the request of senior Army leadership, is expanding the Family Readiness Support Assistant program to reach all the way to the battalion level, Army-wide, to support deployed Soldiers and their Families.
Currently, there are slightly less than 400 [...]

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WARSAW, July 18 (Xinhua) — A Polish officer suddenly died at the military base in al-Divaniyah in Iraq, spokesman for the defense ministry Jaroslaw Rybak told the Polish PAP news agency on Wednesday.
Major Jaroslaw Posadzy, 39, was from the 25th Airborne cavalry in Poland’s Tomaszow Mazowiecki, and also the commander of the independent airborne storm [...]

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By Jerry Patterson
Published Thursday, July 19, 2007
Texas has a proud military heritage. From the Alamo to Baghdad, Texas veterans have served our country in every major conflict, in every corner of the globe.
Yet, Texas heroes like William B. Travis, John Bell Hood, Earl Rudder and Audie Murphy would shudder to think Texas is denying [...]

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By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service

RAMADI, Iraq, July 17, 2007 – This Anbar province city was once held up as a symbol of U.S. failure in Iraq. Al Qaeda in Iraq [...]

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NNS070717-19. CNO: New Final Multiple Formula Sharpens Competition for
Advancement
  — http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=30633
NNS070717-18. Royal Navy Hands Over Combined Task Force 158 to U.S.
Forces
  — http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=30626
NNS070717-17. Blue Ridge Participates in Conservation Effort in
Australia
  — http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=30616
NNS070717-16. Nominations Sought for Black Engineer of the Year Awards
  — http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=30612
NNS070717-15. Navy Helps Select Top Students [...]

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The highest-ranking Iraqi in the leadership of al Qaida in Iraq has been arrested, the US command said.
Officials said information from him indicated the group’s foreign-based leadership wielded considerable influence over the Iraqi chapter.
Khaled Abdul-Fattah Dawoud Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, also known as Abu Shahid, was captured in Mosul on July 4, said Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, [...]

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BAGHDAD, July 18 (KUNA) — One US soldier was killed and four others were injured by a blast in Baghdad on Tuesday, said the US army on Wednesday.
In a press release, the army said the soldiers were members of the Multi-National Division in Baghdad and the incident was caused by "an improvised explosive device detonated [...]

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Military.com Poll: War Support Waning
Nearly 60 percent of readers who participated in a recent Military.com poll said the United States should withdraw its troops from Iraq now or by the end of 2008. Forty percent of the respondents agreed the pullout should begin immediately because "we’re wasting lives and resources there."
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