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Chief Calls for Active Force of 565,000
”I think the active force is too small,” the chief of staff of the Army told the Senate Armed Services Committee, adding that “by conservative estimates” the service should grow to 565,000 to fix manning problems in the Army Training and Doctrine Command, the Medical Command and other parts of the institutional Army.

Special Lab Builds Training Buffaloes
When Rapid Equipping Force (REF) officials were looking for a facility that could build mockups of “Buffalo” Mine Protective Clearance Vehicles (MPCV) to use during training, they called upon an unlikely source – an Army laboratory that specializes in chemical and biological protection.

Issue Centers on Readiness of Next to Deploy
”The real issue” facing the Army is “what is the readiness of the next [unit] to be deployed,” the Army’s G-8 told attendees at the March 1 Association of the United States Army’s Institute of Land Warfare breakfast in suburban Washington.

FY 2007 Emergency Supplemental Heads to Conference
The Senate has passed its version of the Fiscal Year 2007 emergency supplemental spending bill clearing the way for conference negotiations.

7,000 Soldiers Slated for Iraq Deployment
More than 7,000 service members will deploy to Iraq in the coming months, including two units that will not have been back at their home stations for the year they expected when they returned home from their last deployments, Defense Department officials said April 2.

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