News of Note:
Panel OKs $441B Defense Bill

In Iraq:
Bodies of 13 men discovered in Sadr City
U.S.: Operation Matador a Success
Air Force Metorologists Critical to Planning

In Afghanistan:
Insurgents Killed in May 8 Battle

War on Terror:
Two al-Qaida members sentenced in Yemen

BRAC News:
Base plan would alter military landscape
Pols to Fight Base Closures

Definitely NOT on my summer reading list:
Saddam Hussein to write memoirs


JuneauEmpire.com: Associated Press
Pakistan denies report of al-Qaida killing
Witness: Hundreds dead in Uzbek uprising


Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Lebanese speaker calls election law faulty
Pakistani activists detained after race
Palestinian leader to meet with Bush
U.S. calls Iraq border offensive a success
1,010 bid for Iran's presidential nod
Egypt's president criticizes protesters
Gunmen assassinate top Iraqi official


Fox News:
Senior Al Qaeda Operative Believed Killed by CIA Drone
Doctor Reports 500 Dead in Uzbek Violence
Iran OKs Pro-Enrichment Bill
Rice makes surprise visit to Iraq
D.C. Plane Panic Pilot Faces Action by Government
Frist's Filibuster Showdown - Justice Dept. Enters Fight
Bolton Floor Vote a Nailbiter?
Bodies of 13 Executed Men Found
Governor Survives Bomb Attack
Gunmen Kill Foreign Ministry Official


Various Sources:
Iraqi authorities crack down on solo drivers in effort to stem attacks
Coalition warplanes fire near Fallujah


Department of Defense:
ON THE GROUND
'Topo' Soldiers Map Battlefield Terrain — Story
Services Improve for East Baghdad Residents — Story
Reconstruction Efforts Progress in Iraq
Al-Oubaidy District Improvements Continue

IN IRAQ
Iraqi Freedom Combat Equipment Returns
'Desert Dogs' Keep Aircraft in the Air

IN AFGHANISTAN
U.S. Paratroopers Deal Blow to Taliban Forces

IN THE PERSIAN GULF
USS Mustin Rescues 27 in Persian Gulf
Deployed Mustin Sailors Stay In Touch With Home
Royal Fleet Auxiliary Ship Supports Iraqi Navy

TRANSFORMATION
BRAC Web site

TOP NEWS
SPECIAL REPORTS
Base Realignment and Closure 2005

IN IRAQ
Iraqi Citizen Tip Leads to Weapons
Roadside Bombs Kill U.S. Soldiers
Iraq Daily Update
Maps
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
Colonel Works to Control Borders
Insurgents Killed in May 8 Battle
Villagers Ask for Security Presence
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Myers Addresses Spike in Violence
Pilot Confident in Capital Security
Symposium Focus: War on Terror
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Medical Team Trains to Deploy
Mobile Security Unit Deploys
Bush Approves Funding
National Guard, Reserve Update


Today in History
1602 - Cape Cod discovered.
1702 - War of Spanish Succession.
1718 - James Puckle patents world's 1st machine gun
1862 - The Confederate cruiser Alabama runs aground near London, the USDA is created, General Benjamin F. Butler directs that the women of New Orleans are to be treated as whores as a result of their treatment of Union soldiers.
1864 - Battles in Reseca, GA and New Market, VA.
1882 - Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania.
1902 - Lyman Gilmore becomes the first person to fly a powered craft.
1916 - Asiago, Italy falls.
1940 - First successful helicopter flight in US, German armor division moves into northern France, German troops occupy Amsterdam, Gen. Winkelman surrenders, Nazis capture General Persbureau.
1941 - British attacks in Egypt & Libya; Nazis in the Netherlands forbid Jewish music.
1942 - Nazis arrest 2,000 Dutch officers.
1943 - Halifax bombers sink U-463, The Warsaw ghetto uprising ends with the ghetto's destruction.
1944 - 14,000 Hungarian Jews are deported to Auschwitz, Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill and George VI meet to discuss plans for D-Day.
1948 - Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi-Arabia attack Israel.
1958 - The USSR launches Sputnik III.
1960 - The USSR launches Sputnik IV.
1962 - U.S. marines arrive in Laos.
1963 - Faith 7, the last Project Mercury flight, is launched.
1966 - The South Vietnamese army clashes with Buddhists, killing approximately 80.
1988 - Moscow begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.

Birthdays:
1802 - Confederate Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble
1819 - Union Major General Thomas Leonidas Crittenden
1830 - Confederate Brigadier General Laurence Simmons Baker
1859 - Pierre Curie France, physicist, Nobel prize winner
1910 - Robert F. Wagner (Mayor, NYC)
1942 - Anthony Wayne England, Ph.D. /astronaut (STS 51-F)
1949 - Frank L Culbertson Jr , Commander USN/astronaut (STS-38)

Passings:
392 - Valentinianus II emperor of Rome (375-392), murdered at 21
1932 - Ki Inukai premier Japan (1931-32), murdered
1945 - Major Courtney US medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf
1992 - Robert Morris Page US physicist (radar), dies at 88

Reported Missing in Action:
1961
McMorrow, John P.,USN, Air America medic - Released August, 1962
Shore, Edward R., Jr., US Army, Air America pilot - Released August, 1962
Wolfkill, Grant, civilian (WA), Air America reporter - Released August, 1962

1966
Balcom, Ralph C. USAF (WA) - Negative SAR contact
Jensen, George W. USAF (WA) - Remains returned December, 1999
Madison, William L, USAF (KY) - Remains returned December,1999
McKenney, Kenneth D., USAF (MA) - Remains returned December, 1999
Preston, James A., USAF (GA) - Remains returned - disputed - December, 1999
Reilly, Lavern G., USAF (MN) - Remains returned December, 1999
Tapp, Marshall L. USAF (CA) - Remains returned December, 1999
Thompson, George W., USAF (WV) - Remains returned December, 1999
Williams, James E., USAF (MS) - Remains returned December, 1999

1967
Heiliger, Donald L., USAF (WI), Released by DRV February, 1973, alive and well 1998
Hill, Charles Dale, USN (MO)
Pollard, Ben M., USAF (KY) - Released by DRV March, 1973, alvie and well 1998

1975
Benedett, Daniel A., USMC (WA) - May 1975 Mayaguez incident
Blessing, Lynn, USMC (PA) - May 1975 Mayaguez incident; Remains ID'd May, 2000
Boyd, Walter, USMC (VA) - May 1975 Mayaguez incident; Remains ID'd May, 2000
Copenhaver, Gregory S., USMC (MD) - May 1975 Mayaguez incident; Remains ID'd May, 2000
Gause, Bernard, Jr., USN (AL) - May 1975 Mayaguez incident, Remains ID'd June, 2000
Garcia, Andres, USMC (NM), - May 1975 Mayaguez incident, Remains ID'd May, 2000
Hall, Gary L., USMC (KY) - May 1975 Mayaguez incident
Hargrove, Joseph N., USMC (NC), May 1975 Mayaguez incident
Jacques, James J., USMC (CO), May 1975 Mayaguez incident
Loney, Ashton N., USMC (NY), May 1975 Mayaguez incident
Marshall, Danny G., USMC (WV), May 1975 Mayaguez incident
Manning, Ronald J., USN (OH), May 1975 Mayaguez incident, Remains ID'd June, 2000
Maxwell, James R., USMC (AR) - May 1975 Mayaguez incident,
Rivenburgh, Richard W., USMC (CA) - May 1975 Mayaguez incident
Rumbaugh, Elwood E., USAF (PA) - May 1975 Mayaguez incident
Sandoval, Antonio R., USMC (TX), May 1975 Mayaguez incident, Remains ID'd May 2000
Turner, Kelton R., USMC (CA), May 1975 Mayaguez incident, Remains ID'd May, 2000
Van De Geer, Richard, USAF (OH), May 1975 Mayaguez incident, Remains ID'd June, 2000

1979
Rapp, Jeff - Released July 1979
Smith, Karen - Released July 1979