CENTCOM: News Release
DETAINEE DIES IN AID STATION

Department of Defense
Leaders Encourage CNO to Continue Transformation

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Lemonade Stand Helps Troops — Story

TOP NEWS
IN IRAQ
Roadside Bomb Kills Marine
Indicators Show Progress
Expectations for Forces on Track
Sailor Dies; Weapons Destroyed
Suicide Bomber Hits Near Airfield
Conditions to Dictate Troop Levels
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Iraq Progress Fact Sheet (pdf)
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)
'Eye on Iraq' (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
Enduring Freedom Marks 3 Years
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Attacks Won't Derail Support
N.M. Guard Ready to Respond
New Device Counters Terrorism
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Proposed System to Aid Recruiting
U.S. Addresses Chinese Embargo
Leaders Celebrate VA's Anniversary
Chairman Briefed on Irish Defense
Compensation Proposals Studied
National Guard, Reserve Update

Weather
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

Gitmo

Today in History
1683 - The first settlers from Germany leave for the U.S., aboard the Concord.
1758 - George Washington is admitted to Virginia House of Burgess
1824 - In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the first public opinion poll are published: Clear Lead for Andrew Jackson.
1866 - Tennessee becomes the first Confederate state readmitted to the Union.
1870 - The first trans-US rail service begins.
1877 - For the first time, Federal troops are used to combat strikers.
1925 - In "The Monkey Trial," Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in a Tennesee high school; he is fined $100 & costs
1929 - President Hoover proclaims the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounces war.
1948 - Soviets blockade Berlin from the west.
1950 - The V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch is the first launch from Cape Canaveral.
1969 - Apollo 11 returns to Earth; After his appeal, Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in the U.S. Army.
1974 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously orders the release of the Nixon Watergate tapes.
1975 - Apollo 18 returns to Earth.
1986 - In San Francisco, a Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage.
1987 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) is released.

This Day in Terrorism
1961 - In a scene that will be repeated frequently, a U.S. commercial airliner is hijacked to Cuba

Holidays
Ecuador, Venezuela - Bolivar Day (1783)

Birthdays
1783 - Simón Bol¡var, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule
1796 - John Middleton Clayton, (Sen-DE)/U.S. Secretary of State (1849-50)
1802 - Alexandre Dumas, author ("The Three Musketeers")
1895 - Robert Graves, poet/historical novelist ("I, Claudius")
1898 - Amelia Earhart, aviator
1920 - Bella Abzug (Rep-NY)
1932 - William D. Ruckelshaus, headed Environmental Protection Agency
1935 - Adnan Khashnoggi, Saudi businessman / financier

Passings
1862 - Martin Van Buren, 8th U.S. President
1966 - Montgomery Clift, actor
1974 - Chris Chubbock, newscaster, shoots self on air
1980 - Peter Sellers, actor
1991 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel prize winning author

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Fobair, Roscoe H., USAF (CA); F4C shot down (pilot); Vietnamese reported he was dead 1972 or 1973 without further details

Keirn, Richard P., USAF (OH); F4C shot down (weap / syst operator in above craft), released by DRV February, 1973 - deceased, May, 2000
NOTE: Richard Keirn was also a B-17 co-pilot in WWII, and a POW there, held in Stalag Luft 1, Germany - released June, 1945

1968
Bush, John R., USAF (FL); F4D shot down (backseater to Hackett)
Greiling, David S., USN (MI); A7A shot down, known to have been captured, still MIA
Hackett, Harley B., USAF (SC); F4D shot down (pilot)

1970
Bloodworth, Donald B., USAF (CA); F4D shot down (navigator to Reed), remains returned, ID'd February, 1998
Reed, James W., USAF (OH); F4D shot down (pilot)

1971
Antunano, Gregory A., US Army (CA); OH6A shot down (observer) while on reconnaissance mission in Cambodia, KIA, body not recovered
Dalton, Randall D., US Army (IL); OH6A shot down (door gunner) while on reconnaissance mission, KIA, body not recovered