House Army Caucus (05/01/2001)
House Army Caucus
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House Government Reform Committee (05/01/2001)
House Government Reform Committee
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House Armed Services Committee (05/01/2001)
House Armed Services Committee
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House Veterans' Affairs Committee (05/01/2001)
House Veterans' Affairs Committee
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House Appropriations Committee (05/01/2001)
House Appropriations Committee
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House Budget Committee (05/01/2001)
House Budget Committee
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House Guard and Reserve Caucus (05/01/2001)
House Guard and Reserve Caucus
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Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee (05/01/2001)
Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee
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Senate Armed Services Committee (05/01/2001)
Senate Armed Services Committee
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Senate Governmental Affairs Committee (05/01/2001)
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
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Senate National Guard Caucus (05/01/2001)
Senate National Guard Caucus
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Senate Appropriations Committee (05/01/2001)
Senate Appropriations Committee
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Senate Budget Committee (05/01/2001)
Senate Budget Committee
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2001 AUSA Congressional Directory (05/01/2001)
Military-related congressional committee listings for the 107th Congress.
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Full-Time Manning Tops Reserve's Readiness List (05/01/2001)
The Army Reserve's state of readiness in its best-resourced units is as high as it has ever been. But, it remains about 2,000 positions short in full-time manning positions to raise the reserve's overall readiness. Maj. Gen. Thomas Plewes, chief of the Army Reserve, said, "This is our most critical readiness issue."
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Trust, Confidence Needed (05/01/2001)
"Confidence that we can be relied upon if we are called and trust in one another. That's the strength of our team" is the way the head of the Army National Guard describes the relationship among the active force, the Army Reserve and the National Guard.
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Unit Conversion Affects Readiness (05/01/2001)
The conversion of Army National Guard units to new missions in combat support and combat service support is causing a slight drop in personnel readiness. "As we do that, we are changing career fields. We are talking about Military Occupation Specialty qualifications," affecting more than 11 percent of the guard, Maj. Gen. Roger Schultz, Army National Guard director, said.
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Working it Out (05/01/2001)
Tension Between Job, Call-Up
When 1st Lt. Craig Yarbrough was called to serve in Bosnia for nine months, his employer wrote to Yarbrough's commanding officer asking that he not go. In 15 years, this was the first time his employer asked that he not be called up.
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'Learned Something of Myself': A Bishop’s Story (05/01/2001)
In 1981 when Jerome Listecki was studying in Rome, an Army chaplain approached him and asked him if he could accompany him to Germany. The Catholic priest from Chicago said, "You'll have to ask the Cardinal (John Cody)." A short time later, "I was sworn in at the Rome embassy by a lieutenant commander." And Listecki is still serving -- both as a priest -- now an auxiliary bishop in the archdiocese of Chicago -- and as a soldier -- now a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve.
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Time, Distance Factors: A Pastor's Story (05/01/2001)
The biggest drawback to having a ministry as a chaplain in the Army National Guard or the Army Reserve is "time and distance" is the way one Maryland chaplain put it.
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Memorial Service Brings Perspective (05/01/2001)
At a memorial service in Greensburg, Pa., the widow of a reservist killed in Desert Storm shared her story of Desert Storm impacted her life and the lives of her family both then and now. Members of the 14th Quartermaster Detachment, United States Army Reserve killed during Desert Storm, as well as those who have since died, were honored at the service.
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Guard Faces Full-Time Manning Issue (05/01/2001)
Full-time manning is the number one personnel and readiness issue facing the Army National Guard. It is the same concern voiced by the Army Reserve.
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USAR on Track in Recruiting (05/01/2001)
The U.S. Army Reserve is on track to meet its recruiting goal of 32,000 soldiers for the fiscal year. Maj. Gen. Thomas Plewes, chief of the Army Reserve, said, "That's down from 36,000 because our retention has been so good," especially among soldiers who have been deployed.
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AUSA Honors Army Nurse Corps (05/01/2001)
Video Examines 100 Years of Service, Sacrifice
To commemorate the establishment of the Nurse Corps in February 1901, the Association's Institute of Land Warfare (ILW) sponsored the production of "A Long, Proud Tradition: The Army Nurse Corps," a 30-minute video examining the history of the corps.
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Training is Heart of Transformation (05/01/2001)
The Army says the heart and soul of the transformation lies in its ability to train soldiers and leaders who will be able to operate in a technically advanced, full-spectrum force.
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See, Understand, Act and Finish--First (05/01/2001)
"See first, understand first, act first and finish first" -- the Army said these are the operational concepts underlying the Army's Objective Force. At AUSA's Winter symposium in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., March 1, the Army laid out what capabilities industry needs to develop to transform the service from a heavy, slow moving, overmatch force to a light, quick and lethal force.
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Science, Technology Lead Way to Objective Force (05/01/2001)
Leaders from the Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) and the Army Materiel Command (AMC) agree that the service's current equipment is wearing out and if transformation is to succeed, industry must team with the Army and develop new technologies.
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Kidd: Listen and Care (05/01/2001)
Chapter News
The Association of the U.S. Army's Greater New York-Statue of Liberty Chapter hosted its first Enlisted Awards Banquet at the Fort Hamilton Community Club March 2, honoring soldiers from across New York. SMA Richard A. Kidd, USA, Ret., AUSA's vice chairman for noncommissioned officer and enlisted affairs spoke at the banquet.
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Award Recognizes Quality-of-Life Programs (05/01/2001)
The Fisher House Foundation is teaming up with Newman's Own, Inc. and Military Times Media Group for the second year to help volunteer organizations support servicemen and servicewomen and their families.
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Treated BDUs Repel, Kill Bugs, Insects (05/01/2001)
Smacking, scratching and twitchiness spurred by attacking bugs may be reduced dramatically with permethrin-treated Battle Dress Uniforms. More than 350 soldiers from 1st Battalion, 509th Infantry, at Fort Polk, La., completed an eight-month evaluation of permethrin factory-treated BDUs in March 2000 and the uniforms are now waiting for approval by the Army Uniform Board to become a clothing item troops can purchase.
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Internet May Solve Military Voting Problem (05/01/2001)
Military Overseas Could Vote Online Soon
The controversy that surrounded the counting of overseas military ballots in Florida that arrived after the election could become a footnote in history if a pilot project using the Internet is expanded.
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Keane: Military Provides Worldwide Stability (05/01/2001)
Army Recruiting is Shared Responsibility
While Americans continue to express confidence in their armed services, Gen. John Keane, Army vice chief of staff, said that few recognize there is a connection between the success of United States economy and the success of America's military forces around the world.
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Westphal Named Acting Secretary (05/01/2001)
Joseph W. Westphal has been designated the acting secretary of the Army, effective March 5. Westphal had been serving as the assistant secretary of the Army for civil works since June 1998 and has a long history of Capitol Hill and government experience.
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Sisisky Dies -- Army Loses Great Friend (05/01/2001)
The second-ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, whose district includes Fort Lee, Norfolk Naval Shipyard and Portsmouth Naval Hospital, died March 29. Rep. Norman Sisisky was 73. He had cancer.
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Interest rate reduced to 12.75% (05/01/2001)
For the third time this year, the Federal Reserve has lowered key interest rates by one half percent. As a result, banks also reduced their prime lending rate by 1/2 percent. With this newest reduction in interest rates, the Military Star Card is reducing its interest rate from 13.25 percent to 12.75 percent, effective April 1.
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Commissary Savings is 29.2% (05/01/2001)
Family Programs
Shop your commissary and save more than 29 percent on your grocery bill. That's the good news according to the most comprehensive Market Basket Price Comparison Study ever done by the Defense Commissary Agency.
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Members Are Our Credentials (05/01/2001)
NCO and Soldier Programs
The importance of membership in AUSA. A top ten list of reasons to join AUSA.
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Tax Bill Help RC, Employers (05/01/2001)
Capitol Hill Focus
Reserve tax bills introduced; New reserve compenent health benefit; Dominici introduces health care bill; Capitol visitors' center needs funding
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The Last Word? (05/01/2001)
View From the Hill
The new Army beret has people talking. John Molino, AUSA Director of Government Affairs, puts the beret decision into perspective.
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Strength Through Members (05/01/2001)
AUSA President Gordon Sullivan: "Membership Counts."
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Aircraft are Tailored for Desert Exercise (05/01/2001)
The Apaches, Black Hawks, Chinooks and Kiowa Warriors going to the California desert in April will be tailored "mission by mission" for one of the Army's largest exercises in recent years. Because no unit has the Comanche attack reconnaissance helicopter, the aviation brigade of the 4th Infantry Division will be participating in the upcoming division capstone exercise "exactly as it would in combat."
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Quality-of-Life Issues Must be Solved (05/01/2001)
Voice of Congress
Rep. John M. McHugh, R-N.Y., Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Military Personnel and Co-Chair of the Army Caucus, discusses what needs to be done for military quality-of-life and how the Defense Department and Congress can address the issues with which they are faced.
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Army South: Looking Ahead (05/01/2001)
Maj. Gen. Alfred A. Valenzuela, commander of the United States Army South, said, "A vision is only as good as those who have to execute it." And his marching order when he took this post was: "Look out 25 years and tell us what you see." So with his 30 years of experience in the Army and bouncing between assignments in artillery and a foreign area officer who concentrated in Central and South American and the Caribbean, he is doing just that.
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NCO, Soldier Programs Directorate Formed (05/01/2001)
Spencer, Thomas head new AUSA department
The Association of the United States Army marked the establishment of its new Noncommissioned Officer and Soldiers Programs directorate with a reception at national headquarters in Arlington, Va., March 19. The new directorate, formerly known as NCO and Enlisted Affairs, is responsible for the advancement of critical issues facing NCOs, soldiers and their families.
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'Walk, Crawl, Run' (05/01/2001)
A journey through training exercises of the 158th Cavalry, 29th Infantry Division, Maryland National Guard, as it prepares to be deployed to Bosnia as part of SFOR 10.
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Iraq, Iran Remain Threats (05/01/2001)
When asked whether a national military strategy still should be built around preparing to fight two major regional wars, Gen. Tommy Franks, the U.S. commander whose responsibility includes the volatile Middle East said, "I would agree with your comments."
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