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  • Pentagon Asks to Shield Military Ranges from Suits

    04/07/2004 12:43:44 AM PDT · by kattracks · 4 replies · 173+ views
    reuters | 4/07/04 | Charles Aldinger
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon (news - web sites) asked Congress on Tuesday to help shield the U.S. military from environmental lawsuits which defense officials charged were threatening to close hundreds of live-fire training ranges in the country.   The Defense Department said it wanted approval of "modest clarifications" in law that would, for example, grant bases three-year exemptions from some provisions of the federal Clean Air Act to allow initial testing of new weapons, such as the planned Joint Strike Fighter. Individual states would have a right to decide whether to accept an exemption. The exemptions, the Pentagon...
  • Jointness Vital in Transforming Training

    03/03/2004 1:58:49 PM PST · by Calpernia · 3 replies · 117+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | March 3, 2004 | By K.L. Vantran
    Transforming joint training in the Defense Department is a continual journey, Paul W. Mayberry, deputy undersecretary of defense for readiness, said at the Defense Transformation Efforts and Opportunities Conference here last week. "We are a nation at war," he said. "Because of our successes in these theaters, some have questioned the need to transform, but in fact it is the conditions from these wars that have only reinforced our necessity to transform the way that we train. "Today's world is complex and filled with uncertainty and surprise," he added. "We no longer fight against known enemies with standing armies, but...