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 [...]
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Soldiers, Families Top Army Priorities, Leaders Say
Official Calls Military Child Care ‘Model for Nation’
By Samantha L. Quigley
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2009 – The Military Child Care Act of 1989 has made the military child care system the one to emulate.
Sesame Street Muppets Rosita, right, and Elmo, accompanied Melvin Ming, Sesame Workshop’s chief operating officer, to the Defense Department’s 2009 Child Development Conference in Washington, D.C., Nov. [...]
First Lady reaches out to Eglin, Hurlburt community
October 14, 2009 7:15 AM Tom McLaughlin Daily News
EGLIN AFB — First lady Michelle Obama will speak here Thursday afternoon. She will address members of the military and civil service employees working on Eglin Air Force Base, said Marie Vanover, a spokeswoman for the base. A news release from Obama’s press office termed the visit [...]
