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Soldiers, Families Top Army Priorities, Leaders Say

By Lisa Daniel
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2010 – Funding programs to support soldiers and their families is the Army’s top priority in the new fiscal year, the service’s secretary and chief of staff told a Senate panel today.
Army Secretary John M. McHugh, a former Congress member who served on the House Armed Services [...]

Soldiers to earn the coveted Green Berets during Nov. 13 graduation ceremony

RELEASE NUMBER: 091109-01
DATE POSTED: NOVEMBER 9, 2009
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (USASOC News Service, Nov. 9, 2009) – Newly minted Special Forces Soldiers will join the Special Forces regiment as they graduate from the Special Forces Qualification Course at the Crown Coliseum Nov. 13 in Fayetteville.
Eighty-nine Soldiers from the 248th SFQC have spent the past year or [...]

John McHugh Assumes Duties as Secretary of the Army

U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)
News Release
 
IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                                                     
September 21, 2009                                                                                                                          
John McHugh Assumes Duties as Secretary of the Army
The Department of the Army announced today that John McHugh was sworn in as the 21st Secretary of the Army at a Pentagon ceremony this morning.
Also sworn in was Joseph Westphal, [...]

7th SFG(A) Soldiers, Families briefed on upcoming move to Florida

RELEASE NUMBER: 090420-09
DATE POSTED: APRIL 20, 2009
USASOC Public Affairs Office
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (USASOC News Service, April 20, 2009) – The 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) hosted a Base Realignment and Closure information briefing at the Crown Coliseum today to update Soldiers and their Families about the unit’s upcoming move to Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., scheduled [...]