AUSA News - July 2008 

Spc. Ross McGinnis was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in a White House ceremony June 2, two weeks shy of what would have been his 21st birthday.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates termed the department’s limited power to transfer funds from one account to another to cover war expenses in Afghanistan and Iraq “a shell game”... More

Gen. David Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he expected to make recommendations on future troop withdrawals from Iraq before he steps down as commander of coalition forces there in September.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that his priorities include “sending more intelligence, surveillance reconnaissance assets to Iraq and Afghanistan and concentrating DoD’s attention on meeting the immediate needs of the warfighters.”