Female combat pilot is one strong woman

Female combat pilot is one strong woman

(EXCERPT), by Linda McIntosh COMMUNITY NEWS WRITER

January 21, 2004

CAMP PENDLETON – She can pull a jeep, carry a 140-pound rock and flip
a 5-ton tire.

But that is nothing for Capt. Vernice Armour, one of the base's
Strongest Warriors.

The quietly confident Super Cobra attack helicopter pilot is the first
black female combat pilot in the Department of Defense.

"The harder the challenge, the bigger the drive," said Armour, 30, who
hopes to be an example and motivate others – just as others have
inspired her.

Back in 1994, when she was in the Army Reserve and attending an ROTC
career day, she met a black female Army pilot and became interested in
aviation.

After graduating from Middle Tennessee State University in...

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Dayton, Coleman want troops reimbursed for Iraq leave, By PAULINE
JELINEK

(EXCERPT) Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Minnesota's senators on Wednesday questioned the Pentagon
decision to reimburse air fares for some - but not all - troops coming
home on leave from Iraq and Afghanistan.

In a program started Sept. 25 to give vacations to troops and
civilians in those campaigns, those on leave are brought to Baltimore
from overseas. They had been paying for their connecting flights the
rest of the way home.

The Pentagon decided to reimburse full air fare starting the day the
policy was approved Dec. 19, officials said. But they decided not to
make it retroactive, meaning no payments for those who took R&R from
Sept. 25 to Dec. 18

Two Minnesota senators who sponsored legislation passed by Congress to
help reimburse the troops, Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Mark
Dayton, said on Wednesday that they sent a letter to Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld expressing disappointment over the decision and
asking him to review it.

"The Coleman-Dayton amendment clearly intended that all R&R travel for
our brave men and women be covered equally. There is no justification
for doing otherwise," Dayton wrote in the letter.

The rest and recuperation leaves of two weeks were started to improve
morale among a military stretched thin by the Iraq war on top of the
global war on terror. Part of the reason for the plan was to give
troops a break after it was ordered that deployments would last for a
year.

Several weeks after the start of the leave program - the largest since
the Vietnam War - Congress approved $55 million for the
reimbursements...

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Defense Agency refuses to hold news briefings on Iraq

(EXCERPT)

Thursday, January 22, 2004 at 04:45 JST TOKYO — The Defense Agency is
continuing to refuse to brief news media about Self-Defense Forces
(SDF) activities in Iraq but wants to resume talks with reporters on
how they should cover it, journalists said Wednesday.

The agency had been in talks with members of a press club located at
the...

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