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Contracting: A Sure Bet For Veterans
July 10, 2009
If you are interested in working in contracting once you return to civilian life, the Federal Contractor Program can help you get a jump on your career.
Use Your Military Training to Become an Operations Manager
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You can translate your supply chain know-how into a successful civilian career as an Operations Manager. All you need is a degree.
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Take your engineering skills to the next level with a bachelor's degree. It can help prepare you for a civilian job as an engineering manager.
A Civilian Career for Military Journalists
July 10, 2009
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Defense Department Contracts for 2,400 More MRAP Vehicles
October 19, 2007
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2007 - The Defense Department has let contracts for an additional 2,400 mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles, bringing the total number of the vehicles ordered to 8,800.
Pakistan's Bhutto Ends 8-Year Exile with Jubilant Homecoming
October 18, 2007
Hundreds of thousands of supporters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto are cheering her homecoming after eight years in self-imposed exile.
Doonesbury Creator, Military Bloggers Compile New Book
October 18, 2007
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2007 - War can inspire great writing, like a series of superlative dispatches from servicemembers in Iraq and Afghanistan compiled in a new book that offers an arresting glimpse of life on the front lines.
Gates Aims to Resolve Disconnect Between Military, Security Contractors
October 18, 2007
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2007 - Multinational Force Iraq and private security contractors too often are working at cross purposes, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told Pentagon reporters today.
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Iraq's Shi'ites Celebrate, Sunnis Protest, as Saddam Found Guilty
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Voice of America News
Iraq, November 5, 2006 -- Iraq's Shi'ites were celebrating Sunday's court decision to sentence former president Saddam Hussein to death by hanging, as the case against Saddam moved to the appeal stage.
The decision automatically triggered an appeal, expected to last about four weeks. If the sentence is not overturned, it must be carried out within 30 days.
On Sunday, Iraqi Shi'ites in Baghdad's Sadr City and in the holy city of Najaf danced in the streets after they heard the news.
Speaking on Iraqi television, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saddam's eventual execution may provide comfort to families of the thousands of people killed by his regime.
But in Saddam's hometown Tikirit in northern Iraq, demonstrators chanted in support of the former leader.
Iraq's High Tribunal found Saddam guilty of ordering the killing of 148 Shi'ites after an assassination attempt against the president in 1982.
As his sentence was read out on Sunday, a visibly shaken Saddam yelled out "Long Live Iraq" and "God is Great."
The court also sentenced two of Saddam's co-defendants to death, including his half brother , Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, and the former chief judge of Saddam's Revolutionary Court, Awad Hamed al-Bander.
It also sentenced former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan to life in prison, and three other former Ba'ath party officials were sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.
The seventh co-defendant, Mohammed Azawi Ali, also a Ba'ath party member, was acquitted for lack of evidence.
Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is also on trial on genocide charges for his military campaign against Iraqi Kurds in the late 1980s, including the 1988 poison gas attack on the town of Halabja. Saddam began the Anfal campaign after accusing the Kurds of aiding Iran during the Iran-Iraq war.
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