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Local Capt. gets nomination for Rear Admiral |
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Navy Capt. Timothy S. Matthews has been nominated for appointment to the rank of rear admiral (lower half). Matthews is currently serving as commanding officer, Fleet Readiness Center Southeast, Jacksonville, Fla. |
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Army reports 82 suicides so far in 2009 up from 51 this time last year |
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The Army released suicide data for the month of May today, reporting one confirmed suicide and 16 potential suicides among active duty soldiers. In the April report, the Army reported seven active duty potential suicides. Since that time an additional suicide was reported, for a total of eight April potential suicides, three of which have been confirmed and five remain under investigation. There have been 82 reported active duty suicides in the Army during calendar year 2009. Of these, 45 have been confirmed as suicides, and 37 are pending final determination of manner death. For the same period in 2008, there were 51 suicides among active duty soldiers. |
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Local Army Corps of Engineers civilian employee killed in Iraq |
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The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Department of the Army civilian employee who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Maged M. Hussein, 43, of Cairo, Egypt, died May 25 in Al Taqaddum, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his convoy vehicle in Fallujah, Iraq. He was employed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, Jacksonville, Fla. |
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Concert on the Green is Cancelled! |
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Fleming Island, FL - Rotary Club of Fleming Island announced today that due to the inclement weather the Concert on the Green scheduled for Sunday, May 24th at St Johns River Comm College has been cancelled. At this time no rain date has been set. As soon as a rain date is released it will be posted here on the Fleming Island News website.
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End to Stop Loss Announced |
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The Department of Defense announced today a comprehensive plan to eliminate the current use of Stop Loss, while retaining the authority for future use under extraordinary circumstances. This is an important step along the path in adapting the Army into an expeditionary force. The Army Reserve and Army National Guard will mobilize units without employing Stop Loss beginning in August and September 2009, respectively. The Regular (active duty) Army will deploy its first unit without Stop Loss by January 2010. |
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Navy Changes Speicher Status To 'Missing-In-Action' |
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 Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter determined today that the status of Capt. Michael Scott Speicher is changed from "Missing/Captured" to "Missing-In-Action" (MIA). This determination was made after a review of available information; including the report and recommendation of a Status Review Board and comments provided by the Speicher family, as well as a Defense Intelligence Agency assessment. Speicher was the first casualty of Operation Desert Storm. His F/A-18 Hornet was downed by hostile action on January 17, 1991, during the first manned air strike of the war, and he was declared "Killed-In-Action/Body-Not-Recovered" in May 1991. His status was changed in 2001 to MIA, and then to Missing/Captured in 2002 based on sighting reports in Iraq. Those sightings have since been discredited. In October 2008, the intelligence community concluded that Speicher is deceased, though his remains are unlocated. Based on that assessment, the Secretary of the Navy convened a Status Review Board to consider whether Speicher's status should remain Missing/Captured or should be changed. |
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