More than 3, 000 U.S. military service members, civilians and their families live at the base.
Last February, Mr. Panetta ordered U.S. military service chiefs to find ways to expand the role of women.
What followed, though, was the worst reversal of fortunes that any U.S. military service had suffered in many years.
That was based on 27, 062 suicides by those with U.S. military service among 147, 763 suicides total in 21 states.
The Guantanamo Bay base, 45 square miles of barren land on the edge of cliffs high above the Caribbean Sea, is a remote facility where more than 3, 000 U.S. military service members, civilians and their families live.
U.S. soldiers who survived captivity were interviewed by the U.S. Military Intelligence Service in Europe after they were liberated.
CNN: Lawmakers to Army chief: Honor soldiers held as slaves by Nazis
The by now well-known statistic that there are more musicians in U.S. military bands than American Foreign Service Officers speaks volumes about the disproportionate government funding of a U.S. military still overly oriented to superpower warfare.
We have many Muslims serving honorably in the U.S. military and their service should not be tainted by Pfc.
Also Saturday, the U.S. military announced that five service members assigned to support the Secret Service in its assignment have been "confined to quarters" in Colombia after they violated curfew and "may have been involved in inappropriate conduct" at the same hotel.
Since the start of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, 18, 462 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department.
"U.S. military leaders in Cartagena, in close coordination with the U.S. Secret Service lead there, decided that, given their skills, experience and expertise, moving U.S. military personnel would've been disruptive to the mission, " said the spokesman, Jose Ruiz.
CNN: Senators criticize military briefing on Colombia scandal
Nowhere has this attitude been more conspicuous than in the structuring of U.S. Unified Commands (inter-service military commands) such that responsibility for the continent is divided among the European, Central and Pacific Commands.
The U.S. military said in a statement that two American service members were killed in the shooting.
Powell forgets that the same Islamist organizations which so widely disseminated his remarks have done very little to encourage military service of Muslims in the U.S. military and to the contrary take every opportunity to disseminate incidents like the Abu Ghraib story as the representative example of American action in Iraq.
One reason it is an attractive career switch is that Congress requires the U.S. Postal Service to count retirees' years in the military in figuring their postal pensions.
Some in the U.S. military see a steep learning curve ahead for the 350, 000 Afghan service personnel.
The administration and some in Congress have pledged to repeal Section 654 of U.S. Code Title 10, which states that homosexuals are not eligible for military service.
The report represents the collective judgment of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and the intelligence organization of each military service.
The U.S. military has alleged that Stein's postings violated military regulations prohibiting partisan political statements while in active service in the military.
The investigation of military personnel came after nine U.S. Secret Service agents were dismissed for spending time with prostitutes in Cartagena, where they had been sent to prepare for the president's trip.
The source said he was with about a dozen Secret Service agents and a few U.S. military specialists at a strip club in the city a few days before Obama arrived.
First, the U.S. military is an all-volunteer force, which means that service members freely choose to take on both the obligations and benefits of military life.
FORBES: Should American Society Be Modeled After the U.S. Military?
Then there is the plea that has been going out, coming from the U.S. Marines, coming from the military to those in the civil service, to try to get the police officers to come back to help stem the tide of looting, to try to get those from the water department, the sanitation department, and with the electricity and utilities.
The Purple Heart is bestowed upon a service member or U.S. civilian serving under the military's authority who "has been wounded, killed, or who has died or may hereafter die of wounds received" while in action against an enemy or in a terrorist attack, according to the Pentagon's Manual of Military Awards.
It should also be noted that, until the U.S. military became an all-volunteer force, it compensated and treated its service members more like cannon-fodder.
FORBES: Should American Society Be Modeled After the U.S. Military?
The Appeal for Redress enables service members to appeal to their congressional representatives to end U.S. military occupation in Iraq.
He said the package would waste money on an unnecessary missile system and objected to provisions that would expel service members found to have the AIDS virus and ban abortions in U.S. military hospitals overseas.
An American service member was killed in a mortar strike in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.
应用推荐