Word: deployments
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...Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, got word today that they should switch from their standard Army green camis to tan, intended to make infantrymen like Beets invisible in the sand, except for the blindingly bright American flag they have to sew on the right shoulder when they're about to deploy overseas so that allies can distinguish U.S. troops at close quarters...
These soldiers are trained to move out fast and often, but not since the 1991 Gulf War has the entire 3rd Infantry Division, to which Beets' company belongs, been ordered to deploy at one time. The 15,000 troops plus all manner of support personnel that make up the armored force are just some of the nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers now moving out from across the country to join the 60,000 already in the gulf. You can track the exodus in numbers. It's harder to track it in lives, unless you come to a place like Fort...
...continental Europe's major powers over Iraq, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair will likely find himself increasingly in the diplomatic spotlight. As the one ally that has stood firmly by the Bush administration on Iraq - to the extent of ordering one quarter of Britain's entire army to deploy in the Gulf by mid February - Blair may have a significant role in shaping the diplomatic pre-game and timetable of any U.S. invasion. President Bush is signaling growing impatience with the UN weapons inspection process, and administration officials are furious at France and Germany's rejection of any move...
...ambitious vision, IBM is becoming an unprecedented, one-stop shopping destination to help companies electronically integrate their divisions, as well as suppliers, partners and customers. Not only will it help devise business strategy, redesign and even take over key processes like human resources and finance, it will also deploy hardware and Web-enabled software (from both IBM and others) to make it happen. In some cases IBM will provide the entire system--with the hardware often located far from the customer--as a utility that corporations can buy "just like they buy electricity," as Palmisano has said. Instead of having...
...nations should beef up their arsenals. While most goals were achieved, "they picked the low-hanging fruit," admits a NATO official. The crucial big-ticket items remain: protection against nuclear, biological and chemical weapons; better equipment for command, control, communication and intelligence; better combat support; and the hardware to deploy European soldiers quickly and effectively. It's no coincidence that these are exactly the things the Europeans need for their own E.U. Rapid Reaction Force: 60,000 men, deployable within 60 days and sustainable for a year, to take on general peacekeeping and humanitarian tasks. This time, NATO has given...