Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
completing early minds readiness training
I don't think completing your training early qualifies in most people's minds as a readiness problem.
unsaid
It's unsaid because that's not true. That's not the plan.
everybody security vacuum
Everybody agrees that we don't want a security vacuum in Kosovo.
flow force mobility plan supplies
It is part of a plan to make force mobility more difficult, to interdict the flow of supplies and of forces.
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It is to relieve the congestion in FYROM, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, temporarily and then ... create the conditions that will allow these people to return home, which is where we believe they want to be.
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It's not surprising that their facilities are primitive by our standards. It's also not surprising that, given the dedication and money they've devoted to upgrading their military, that they have been able to produce long-range missiles, and to fire them from such primitive spots.
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The Air Force is in the process of taking down all its tents at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia because the airmen are moving into dormitories, and therefore these tents could possibly be available for use in Albania or Macedonia.
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Taking out a couple hundred soldiers here and a couple hundred soldiers there is not what we consider a withdrawal. We consider that to be theater.
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they have to follow rules that will keep them farther away from civilian planes, so they don't trigger this system.
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These tankers will immediately help increase the tempo of air operations, allow us to keep planes on station for longer periods of time and increase the number of the hours of the day in which we're actually flying over or near Yugoslavia and Kosovo.
decision hard information needs president sometime technical
This is a very high-priority program. We are working very hard ... to get the president the information he needs from the technical side to make a decision sometime this summer.
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It's a sort of a self-contained, quickly movable team that can go in to an emergency situation abroad, set up a communications, set up an operations center, do some of the initial investigative work.
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It's a tragedy for everyone, particularly the families, the ski area, the cable car operators and the Marines as well, ... set out to determine culpability in a fair, open and thorough way.
drive ready
It was not ready to go because typically when you drive around you don't have the thing ready to fire.