Quote of the Day
"If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag."

-- Unknown

News of Note
Despite Insurgency, Iraq Shows Progress Transcript
Iraqi Army Rescues Australian Hostage
Australia Praises Iraq, U.S. for Hostage Rescue
Officials Detail Detainee Efforts to Senate Panel
Report: 200 Illegal Immigrants Nabbed in New England
Senate Holds Gitmo Hearing
E-Mail Author Says He Didn't Discuss Contract With Annan
Five U.S. Marines Killed in Iraq
Ariz. Harrier Crash Forces 1,300 to Evacuate

JuneauEmpire.com: Associated Press
House votes to limit Patriot Act rules
Attacks leave more than 50 dead in Iraq
Congress debates rights of Gitmo suspects
Marine Harrier jet crashes in Arizona

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Attacks leave more than 50 dead in Iraq
Exec says didn't discuss bid with Annan
Summary box: Background on Rafsanjani
Iran's Rafsanjani back for twilight run
Iraqi, U.S. forces rescue Australian man
Hard-line Iranian candidate withdraws
Israel plans to hand over West Bank town
Video of ex-Iraq regime officials released
Israel arrests suspected suicide bombers
Iran wants credit for providing nuke intel
Bombing kills eight Iraqi police officers
Palestinians take over PM's empty house
Suicide bomber kills 23 Iraqi soldiers
Over 200 foreigners taken hostage in Iraq- AP: Clerics blocked bid for better US ties

Fox News
Masked Men Take Hostages at Cambodia School
Senators: White House Missed Intelligence Deadlines
U.N.: Iran Has Used Plutonium for Years
Pushing Privacy - House votes to limit Patriot Act
Australian Hostage Rescued
Iraq attacks kill more than 50

Department of Defense
ON THE GROUND
Bagram Groundbreaking Marks Hospital Start — Story
Infantry Course Provides Realistic Training — Story
'Warhorse' Milestone: 40,000 Safe Flight Hours — Story

IN IRAQ
Spouses Deploy in Support of Iraq Mission
Female Marines Add to Cultural Sensitivities
Airmen Keep Base Safe in Austere Conditions
Commandos Continue to Press Terrorists
Coalition Transfers Base to Iraqi Army
Iraqi Army Soldiers Strike at Terrorists in Taji
Fuel Specialists Let Pride Continue to Fly

IN AFGHANISTAN
Airmen Provide Critical Elements of Support

IN SOUTHWEST ASIA
KC-10 Air Refueling Sorties Vital to Combat Missions

IN TURKEY
New Mission Arrives at Incirlik

FACE OF DEFENSE
Army Nurse’s Quest for Citizenship Takes Iraq Detour — Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
CD Benefits Armed Services YMCA — Story
Former Pro Athletes Visit Airmen
Cyclists Raise Money for Troops

TOP NEWS
SPECIAL REPORTS
Base Realignment and Closure 2005
Medal of Honor
Two Years in Iraq

IN IRAQ
Officials Talk About Iraq’s Future
2 Marines Killed; Attack Foiled
Water Project on Schedule
Cheney Discusses Iraq Progress
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
Soldiers Wounded; Troops Save Child
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps
Afghan Reconstruction Group Recruiting

WAR ON TERRORISM
Progress in WMD Countermeasure
Rumsfeld Defends Detention Center
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Vet Reflects on Flag Day Meaning
Deployed Can Use Travel Specials
U.S. Army Celebrates Birthday
U.S. Army Birthday Photos
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Army Casualties — Story

Weather
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Iraq
Al Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al Kut An Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall Kayf

Afghanistan
Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar

Today in History
1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned in Lochleven Castle.
1671 - In Moscow, Cossack rebel leader Stenka Razin is tortured and executed.
1832 - Battle of Kellogg's Grove, IL.
1858 - Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
1864 - The siege of Petersburg and Richmond begins.
1909 - The first US airplane sold commercially (by Glenn Curtiss) goes for $5,000.
1917 - The first Congress of Soviets convenes in Russia.
1922 - Henry Berliner shows off his helicopter to the U.S. Bureau of Aeronautics.
1933 - The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is created.
1940 - A Commuinist government takes power in Lithuania.
1941 - The first Federally owned airport opens in Washington, DC.
1961 - Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to the West in Paris.
1975 - Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD.
1977 - Leonid Brezhnev is named president of the U.S.S.R.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin is elected president of Russia.

Birthdays:
1899 - Nelson Doubleday, publisher (Doubleday)
1902 - Barbara McClintock, cytogeneticist, Nobel Prize winner

Passings:
1686BC - Hammurabi the Great dies in Babylon
1216 - Innocent III pope, dies at 54
1671 - Stenka Razin Cossack rebel leader, tortured, executed in Moscow
1976 - Francis E Meloy Jr US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped & killed

Reported Missing in Action:
1965
Schumann, John R., US Army (MN); Ambushed, captured, died in captivity

1968
Bowman, Frank, USN (SC); PCF19 sunk, KIA, body not recovered
Chandler, Anthony Gordon Warner, USN (GA); remains returned 2001
Rupinski, Bernard Francis, USN (PA); F4J shot down, presumed killed.
Wilber, Walter Eugene, USN (PA); Released by DRV February, 1973 (injured), later accused of mutiny while in captivity

1973
Cornelius, Samuel B., USAF(TX); F4E shot down, survival unlikely
Smallwood, John J., USAF (GA); F4E shot down, survival unlikely