Now that they are no longer part of the army, the police are gradually reducing their emphasis on military training and tactics.
He has been criticised over a scandal on a military training ship which led to a mutiny - bringing the charge from opponents that his defence ministry is out of control.
Mr. Babbage, author of the report, contends that Australia can no longer afford to maintain a military focused mainly on participating in peacekeeping operations, as it is doing in East Timor, and on training foreign military forces, as it is in Afghanistan.
The best that can be said for the Bush administration's decision to stop military training on the island of Vieques is that it is a Solomonic one.
That puts an onus on training, military exercises, and making sure the NATO Response Force, which is meant to provide rapid-reaction forces for deployment at short notice, is up to the job.
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The Ministry of Defence has joined the effort by placing a ban on all non-essential military training.
In a separate development on Tuesday a Pentagon spokesman said the US had restarted military training with security forces in Yemen, which had been put on hold because of political unrest.
Both teenagers received six-month military-style training on a Mexican ranch.
Members of the public are invited to help collect peat depth data at a free event at the Warcop Military Training Area, Cumbria on Sunday, 24 July 2011.
On the other side, Israel stopped training in desert warfare and stopped gathering intelligence on the Egyptian military.
ACE, a higher-education industry group, has a network of about 2, 000 schools that consider granting credit for nonclassroom programs, such as military or corporate training, based on its recommendations.
Thus far, that engagement has focused on the professionalization of the Burmese military and also human rights training that we can provide.
So whatever the military can do to make it easier to be married in the military will also improve retention and allow the military to get a better return on the investment of training they put into each recruit.
Mr. Saleh depends on U.S. financial support and training for his military to hold off the secessionist movements that threaten his government.
Faced with the real threat to training and readiness arising from current inhibitions on movement over military bases' beaches, in litoral waters and on off-road areas, however, the Pentagon is seeking legislative protection from still further restrictions that would have a truly crippling effect.
The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act bars employers from taking action against National Guard and Reserve members based on their military service and allows them to reclaim their jobs after periods of active duty or training.
Until three years ago, Star City, the cosmonaut training centre on the outskirts of Moscow, was that place -- a secret military facility that was unmarked on the world map.
Shanker goes on to say that the military is trying to develop the new type of leaders it needs by training its senior commanders to model themselves after George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, George C.
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We can work to improve the current lack of understanding among civilian employers on the portability of military skills sets, and help veterans to earn an academic credential that translates the training received while serving in the military into readily understood civilian terms.
In September, he graduated from a military search-and-rescue training course and was posted to RAF Valley, the station on the island of Anglesey in north Wales.
But in many future conflicts the military operation was likely to cost less than the aftermath: training police, switching the lights back on, building democracy and so forth.
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The law cited by Sheehan is the 1986 Defense Reorganization Act, known as Goldwater-Nichols, which defined the chain of command: from the President to the Secretary of Defense, through the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and on to the various combatant commanders, who were put in charge of all aspects of military operations, including joint training and logistics.
Thirty-three-year-old Liu Yang, also a military pilot, has on the other hand emerged as China's first woman astronaut after just two years of training.
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But major U.S.-led military offensives in the region have gradually tapered off as the coalition has shifted to a strategy focused more on training Afghan security forces.
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