President Obama and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel released statements honoring the sacrifices of U.S. servicemen, their families and the Iraqi people on Tuesday, the 10th anniversary of the the start of the war in Iraq. The rest of Washington is quiet.
WASHINGTON, March 19, 2013 – U.S. defenses are sufficient to stand up to current ballistic missile threats, but must continue to evolve because “the threat of ballistic missiles is not going down,†the commander of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command told Congress today.
NEW ORLEANS – A Jordanian citizen with more than a dozen criminal convictions in Illinois ranging from felony sexual assault to unlawfully carrying a weapon was removed from the United States to Jordan last Tuesday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
WASHINGTON, March 15, 2013 – The Defense Department possesses more real estate than it needs and is looking to close additional bases and installations in the United States and abroad, a senior DOD official told a House panel yesterday.