Pentagon Orders Civilians Back To Work Despite Shutdown
October 7th, 2013Washington (AFP) – The Pentagon said Saturday it will recall most of its furloughed employees as a U.S. government shutdown continued with no signs of an end to the impasse. President Barack Obama used his weekly radio address to demand that Republican lawmakers “end this farce” and approve a budget to keep the government running.
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Pentagon Prepares For Possible Government Shutdown
September 23rd, 2013WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Pentagon warned its workforce on Monday that it is preparing for a possible government shutdown if Congress fails to break a political impasse. If government agencies are forced to shutter, American troops around the world would stay on the job and some civilian employees would be ordered on unpaid leave, Pentagon
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Pentagon Agency’s Twitter Account Deleted For ‘Poor Taste’
September 20th, 2013WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Pentagon has scrapped the Twitter account of an agency that counters homemade explosives after it posted joking comments about a bombing in the Philippines, officials said Friday. After explosions at two movie theaters in the Philippines, a staff member at the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Organization (JIEDDO) wrote in a tweet
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Pentagon Orders Security Review After U.S. Base Shooting
September 18th, 2013WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Pentagon was reviewing security at U.S. bases worldwide Wednesday, after a defense contractor gunned down 12 people in Washington, as investigators worked to uncover the shooter’s motive. U.S. military officials, who announced the security review on Tuesday, were struggling to answer how and why 34-year-old Aaron Alexis — a former sailor
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Washington: Russia ‘Isolated And Alone’ In Blaming Syrian Rebels For Attacks
September 12th, 2013WASHINGTON (AFP) – Russia is ‘isolated and alone” in accusing Syrian rebels of staging a chemical weapons attack that the United States believes was carried out by the Damascus regime, the Pentagon said Thursday. All evidence from the August 21 attack indicates that President Bashar al-Assad’s forces unleashed deadly sarin gas, and dozens of other
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