Canadian Armed Forces News

Minister MacKay and Associate Minister Findlay speak with Women ...
National Defence and the Canadian Forces ... Latest 5 News Room Items ... "I am extremely proud of the leadership role the Canadian Armed Forces have taken ...
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Canadian military bracing for major cuts in Conservative's 2013 federal budget
National Post
... program review. An army planning document, obtained by The Canadian Press, shows that land forces are bracing for a further eight per cent hit on operating and maintenance in the coming fiscal plan, in addition to an existing 22 per cent budget ...
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Minister won't ever forget his time in the Afghanistan war zone
The Province
Canadian Army chaplain Jim Short wasn't supposed to ride along with the troops during their village firefights with the Taliban. Officially, he was a non-combatant. But the young men on patrol during the country's Afghan war said they needed him. “I'm ...
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Colombia envoy welcomes Canadian military aid | CTV News
The federal government's plan to sell military hardware to Colombia will further stabilize the country and help its economy grow, says the Colombian ...
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Experts wonder if military remembers lessons from Somalia affair
Ottawa Citizen
Two Somali men sit on the runway at Belet Huen, Somalia, December 19, 1992, as they wait for a Canadian Forces transport plane to be unloaded. The death of Shidane Arone at the hands of Canadian soldiers 20 years ago is often remembered as one of ...
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MacKay says army reserves will see growth, despite looming cuts
CTV News
EDMONTON -- Defence Minister Peter MacKay insists the future of the Canadian Forces reserves remains bright despite talk of looming cuts. MacKay says a report in the National Post that contends reserve units have seen their budgets reduced up to 25 per ...
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Maine Army Guard troops haunted by Agent Orange
Press Herald
Jandreau, a member of the Maine Army National Guard, would learn decades later why the grass and shrubs covering the training grounds at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown appeared burnt. From the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s, Canadian officials applied ...
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Motorcycle Accidents

Police stress motorcycle safety as warm weather approaches
CapitalGazette.com
Overall, the number of motorcycle accidents investigated by the agency has decreased slightly in recent years. In 2012, the agency investigated five accidents involving motorcycles, two of them fatal, according to statistics provided by county police.

Tampa man killed in Pasco motorcycle crash
Tampabay.com
WESLEY CHAPEL — A Tampa man was killed Saturday when the motorcycle he was riding drove off a Pasco County road and overturned in a ditch, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. James Henry Barrow, 56, was riding north about noon on a 2004 ...
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STAR program helps riders reduce motorcycle accidents | KTVBCOM Boise
MERIDIAN -- With the weather getting warmer, more people are hitting the roads on their motorcycles, and safety advocates are trying to get more drivers and ...
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Man killed in motorcycle crash Friday was from Tampa
Tampabay.com
TAMPA — Police have identified the man killed in Friday's motorcycle accident on Commerce Palms Drive as Gregory Joseph Ashpaugh of Tampa. Ashpaugh, 26, was riding his Kawasaki motorcycle on Commerce Palms shortly after 6:30 p.m. Friday when a ...
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American Veterans News

Veterans news for March 17, 2013
Scranton Times-Tribune
Disabled American Veterans Chapter 1 meeting, Monday, 7 p.m., American Legion Post 908, 625 Deacon St., Scranton. Vets recognition program set. Afghanistan War veterans recognition program, Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Gino J. Merli room of Valley Community ...
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Veterans group seeks van drivers for trips to Seattle
Peninsula Daily
PORT ANGELES — Volunteer drivers are needed for the Disabled American Veterans vans that take veterans to Veterans Administration hospitals in Seattle. Van trips are made five days a week, leaving the Veterans Center, 216 S. Francis St., at 5 a.m. and ...
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Backlog study highlights local veterans concerns
Jacksonville Daily News
Many Onslow County veterans filing benefits claims may face a two-year wait just to be denied compensation, which according to the local Disabled American Veterans chapter, is resting at about 40 to 45-percent locally. “The system is overloaded and ...
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Veterans answer call for used American flags
Lehighvalleylive.com
U.S. Marine Corps veteran Joe Pokojni read about the St. Luke's North secretary's effort to cut out embroidered stars from discarded or worn-out American flags to distribute to military veterans or active-duty men and women as a symbol of patriotism ...
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Military notes
Worcester Telegram
Polish American Veterans of Worcester and the Ladies Auxiliary will meet at 11 a.m. in St. Anthony's hall at Our Lady of Czestochowa Church, 34 Ward St., Worcester. Tuesday AMVETS Post 2577 will meet at 7 p.m. at 45 Maple St., Ware. Holden American ...
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