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  • John Sarbanes(D-Md.) U.S. Rep. John Threlkeld AFGE Legislative Representative Dwight Bowman AFGE 14th District National Vice President Charlie Bernhardt AFGE Labor Relations Specialist

    April 29, 2009
  • President Obama’s dream of a nuclear free future and goal of “global zero” or total eradication of nuclear weapons may need to wait for a while. The military is looking a maintaing it’s automatic weapons…

    April 27, 2009
  • The Associated Press] says Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday told Marines being deployed to Afghanistan that a U.S. victory there would look similar to progress in Iraq, but he cautioned that more civilians with skills beyond the battlefield will be needed, The Obama administration has called up 17,000 more troops to supplement the 38,000 American troops already fighting a resurgence of the Taliban. It said last month it would send several hundred citizens, from agronomists to economists, to work on reconstruction and development issues as part of the military\'s counterinsurgency campaign.

    April 24, 2009
  • A hiccup in Iraq. \"We\'re supposed to have all combat forces out of the cities by June,\" says U.S. military spokesman General David Perkins. But the before that can happen, Al Qaida has to be dealt with. Perkins says \"We have said before, for al Qaida to win they have to take Baghdad, but in order to win they have to hold on to Mosul.\" They are still holding on in Mosul. Perkins says to bring the conflict to an end, Iraq\'s neighbors, particularly Syria, are going to have to stop allowing foreign fighters to come into Iraq.

    April 23, 2009
  • April 22nd Tomorrow\'s show features Tom Grance of the National Institute of Standards and Technology talking about how they\'re helping agencies learn more about cloud computing.

    April 22, 2009
  • Lt. Cmdr. Sunny Ramchandani Staff Physician & Project Manager Bethesda\'s Internal Medicine Department Listen April 27th and 29th

    April 21, 2009
  • Today, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is in Alabama. He’s visiting Fort Rucker to observe a number of training exercises including Helicopter Over-Water survival training. He’s also going to visit Maxwell Air Force Base. It…

    April 15, 2009
  • The Pentagon is aggressively looking for alternatives for fuel. Not only is it a matter of of money, but the Washington Post is reporting that about half of the U.S. military casualties in Iraq and…

    April 13, 2009
  • A New Hampshire congresswoman said the Pentagon has failed to justify giving a new, $35 million contract to a company whose electrical work on U.S. facilities in Iraq has been criticized as shoddy and unsafe.…

    April 10, 2009
  • Dr. Gerald Cross, Dr. Steven Jones, & Dr. Robert Kolodner The Progress, The Promise, and The Importance of Electronic Health Records and Health Information Sharing to the Delivery of Health Care April 13 & April 15

    April 09, 2009
  • Mark Gibson AFGE, Labor Relations Specialist Barbara Palmer Author, \"Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling: Women and Congressional Elections\" Virginia Hemingway President, AFGE DoD Local 2433

    April 08, 2009
  • The Obama administration it will participate directly in group talks with Iran over its suspect nuclear program. State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the United States would be at the table “from now on” when…

    April 08, 2009
  • The Pentagon is going in a different direction when it comes to the 2010 budget. Secretary Robert Gates will unveil it today. Spokesman Geoff Morrell said the Secretary would spend the weekend working on finishing…

    April 03, 2009
  • Steven L. Katz Lion Taming, LLC April 6 & April 8

    April 02, 2009