Seeking to bolster and reshape the Army and Marine Corps but hold the
line on spending for new weapons systems, the Bush administration
will ask Congress on Monday to boost Pentagon spending to $419.3
billion in 2006, an increase of 4.8%.
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The Marine general who led 65,000 Camp Pendleton troops to Baghdad in
the first furious push of the Iraq war is drawing criticism after
saying of battle, “It’s fun to shoot some people.”
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A Pentagon plan to nearly double government payments to families of
U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan should extend to military
personnel who die on active duty anywhere in the world, Democratic
lawmakers said Tuesday.
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Foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, can
challenge their confinement in
U.S. courts because military tribunals
set up to handle their cases do not protect their rights, a federal
judge ruled Monday.
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Grappling with a growing mental health crisis among troops who have
fought in Iraq, the Pentagon is planning to require service members,
for the first time, to undergo psychological assessments months after
they return home.
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Heaping yet another problem onto beleaguered California Secretary of
State Kevin Shelley, a federal watchdog agency Thursday ordered a
special audit of the state’s handling of millions of dollars in
voting reform funds.
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U.S. Marines have scaled back plans to send hundreds of troops into
Indonesia to build roads and clear debris from last month’s tsunami,
Marine Corps officials said Wednesday, after Indonesian officials
said they hoped to have all foreign troops off their soil by late March.
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Victims of sexual assault in the military will be able to speak in
confidence with medical professionals and victims’ rights advocates
for the first time under a new policy being developed by the
Pentagon, officials announced Tuesday.
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A Marine corporal who disappeared in June from a military camp near
Fallouja, Iraq, and later turned up with relatives in Lebanon –
claiming he had been kidnapped and held hostage – was charged
Thursday with desertion.
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A shortage of surgeons to treat the wounded in Iraq has left Army
medical teams in the country scrambling to handle the largest number
of military casualties since the Vietnam War, the New England Journal
of Medicine reports today.
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