News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Forces Kill 2 Attacking Insurgents
Iraqi Environment Recovering
Zarqawi Claims Jordan Attack

Operation Enduring Freedom
Military Doctor Gives Afghan Girl Gift of Life
Team Builds Up Remote Corner of Afghanistan

Gaza Withdrawal
Sharon faces political fallout after quitting Gaza
Palestinian happy to see Israelis leave
Israel says onus is now on Palestinians
Settler home demolitions to take 10 days
Israel, Egypt reach deal on Gaza border

War on Terror / Homeland Security
Britain presents plans to ban hate preachers

Only in America
Rename Your Town, Get 10 Years of Free Satellite TV

Other News of Note
New Military Graves Inscribed With Pentagon Slogans (slightly misleading headline here - shame on you, Fox!)

Fox News
Egypt to Patrol Gaza Border
Bush Won't Meet Sheehan (nor should he - he's already met with her)
Robertson Urges 'Taking Out' Chavez; U.S. Distances Itself
Video: Take Him Out?
Video: 'A Terrific Danger'
Google Launches IM Service
Report: Fetuses Don't Feel Pain Until Late Pregnancy
Fates of Military Bases Hang in Balance
(Military)Academies in Crisis

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Iraqi leader wants constitution for all
Iraqi envoy criticizes other Arab nations
U.N.: Uranium brought to, not made in Iran
Police, suspected militants clash in Egypt
Seven killed by suicide bomber in Iraq

Reuters: Top News
U.S. evangelist calls for assassination of Chavez
U.S. says IAEA report won't end concerns over Iran
Bush: Iraq's Sunnis face choice on constitution
Israeli army to be out of Gaza by mid-September-Mofaz
Unions plan fight against Wal-Mart, multinationals

JuneauEmpire.com: Associated Press
Bush: Pullout would hurt Iraq's democracy
U.S. dodges Robertson comments on Chavez
Final vote on military bases to begin

Department of Defense
Rumsfeld: Delays in Iraq Part of Process — Story Transcript
Homeland Defense Exercise Wraps Up — Story

ON THE GROUND
Iraqi Engineer Regiment Focuses on Training — Story Photos
U.S. Troops Teach Iraqi Soldiers Medical Skills — Story

IN TURKEY
Incirlik Hub Delivers Cargo to Warfighters

FACE OF DEFENSE
Firefighter Gets Promotion While Deployed — Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Iraqi Boy to Receive Heart Surgery — Story
Mo. School Supports Soldier, Kids
Santa Barbara Welcomes Sailors

TOP NEWS
IN IRAQ
Bombing Kills Americans, Iraqis
Canal Work to Benefit Basra Area
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Iraq Progress Fact Sheet (pdf)
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps
Afghan Reconstruction Group Recruiting

WAR ON TERRORISM
Navy Reservists Defend Gulf Coast
West Va. Guard Supports Exercise
Exercise Tests Disaster Response
Bush: U.S. Seeks ' Total Victory'
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Defense Officials Identify Casualties — Story

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
79 - Mt. Vesuvius erupts, burying Pompeii and Herculaneum.
410 - Rome is overrun by the Visigoths, symbolizing the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
1572 - King Charles IX orders the massacre of thousands of French Protestants.
1662 - The Act of Uniformity requires all English to accept the book of Common Prayer.
1682 - Delaware is awarded to William Penn.
1751 - In England, Thomas Colley is executed for drowning a supposed witch.
1814 - The British sack Washington, D.C., burning the White House.
1853 - In Saratoga Springs, NY, Chef George Crum prepares the first potato chips.
1869 - The waffle iron is invented.
1891 - Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
1909 - Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
1912 - The Territory of Alaska is organized.
1912 - The U.S. passes the Anti-gag law, giving Federal employees the right to petition the government.
1932 - Amelia Earhart completes the first non-stop transcontinental flight by a woman.
1949 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is established.
1950 - E.S. Sampson becomes the first U.S. Negro delegate to the U.N.; Operation Magic Carpet transports 45,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel.
1954 - At the height of McCarthyism, the Communist Control Act is passed.
1956 - The first non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrives in Washington, D.C.
1959 - Hiram L. Fong is sworn in as the first Chinese-American Senator, while Daniel K. Inouye becomes the first Japanese-American Representative; both are from Hawaii.
1961 - Former Nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's Minister of Justice.
1966 - The U.S.S.R. launches Luna-11 for a lunar orbit.
1968 - France becomes the world's 5th thermonuclear power.
1970 - A bomb kills one person at the University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center.
1976 - Soyuz-21 returns to Earth.
1979 - The U.N.'s Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps.
1981 - Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20-years-to-life for the murder of Beatle John Lennon.
1987 - It is announced that Mars may experience tornadoes.
1989 - Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling.
1989 - Voyager-2 flies past Neptune.
1990 - Iraqi troops surround embassies in Kuwait City (including the U.S. embassy).
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the U.S.S.R's Communist Party; the Ukraine declares its independence from the U.S.S.R.

Birthdays
1113 - Geoffrey Plantagenet, conquerer of Normandy
1787 - James Weddell, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)
1898 - Albert Claude, physician, Nobel Prize winner (1974)
1922 - Rene Levesque, Quebec premier (1976-85)
1927 - William V. Shannon, journalist / ambassador to Ireland (1977-81)
1944 - Gregory B. Jarvis, astronaut (STS 25)
1946 - Richard "Dick" N. Richards, USN / astronaut (STS-28, 41, sk:50)
1949 - Anna L. Fisher, M.D. / astronaut (STS 51-A)
1962 - Mary E Weber, Ph.D. / astronaut

Passings
1991 - Bernard Castro, patented the convertible couch

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Brunhaver, Richard M., USNR (WA); A4C shot down (pilot), released by DRV February, 1973 - alive as of 1998

Doremus, Robert H., USN (NJ); F4B shot down (NFO, w/Franke), released by DRV February, 1973 - retired as a Captain - alive as of 1998

Franke, Fred A., USN (NY); F4B shot down (pilot, w/Doremus), released by DRV February, 1973 - retired as a Captain - alive and well as of 1998

1967
Allard, Richard M., US Army (MI); UH1H crashed after being caught in a downdraft (crewchief)
Goff, Kenneth B., Jr., US Army (RI); UH1H crasehd after being caught in a downdraft (passenger)

Hess, Jay C., USAF (UT); F105 shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Lt. Colonel - alive and well as of 1998

Holtzman, Ronald L., US Army (VA); UH1H crashed after being caught in a downdraft (gunner)

Schell, Richard J., US Army (MN); UH1H crashed after being caught in a downdraft (passenger)
1968
Heep, William Arthur, USN (CA); F4B shot down (pilot), KIA, body not recovered

Ladewig, Melvin E., USAF (CO); F4D shot down (WSO, w/Read)

Read, Charles H., Jr., USAF (FL); F4D shot down (pilot, w/Ladewig)

1969
Hatch, Paul G., US Army; escaped August, 1969