Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
arms benefits increased military money pay
we have increased military pay and benefits and increased money for arms procurement and training.
affairs army army-and-navy assets civil exist likely
Also, some of the Army assets going into Macedonia and Albania likely would come from the reserves. There are specialties such as civil affairs that only exist in the reserves.
civilian flying military stay trained worry
The flying public, I believe, has nothing to worry about. The military is trained to stay well away from civilian airliners.
civilian flying military stay trained worry
The flying public, I believe, has nothing to worry about, ... The military is trained to stay well away from civilian airliners.
civilian farther follow rules trigger
they have to follow rules that will keep them farther away from civilian planes, so they don't trigger this system.
applies convention geneva periods
By international law, the Geneva Convention applies to all periods of hostilities.
admiral course decisions heads suddenly tough
Admiral Fry, or someone working with him, said, 'You know, if this thing suddenly veers off course and heads to Chicago, we'll have some really tough decisions to make,'
emergency initial operations quickly self situation sort team
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.
artillery defensive dispersion expected fair good including military moving position standard tanks
I think it is fair to say that things were in their expected position -- which was moved, ... They have been moving their military assets, including tanks and artillery -- and other things. Dispersion is a standard defensive tactic, and the Serbs are very good at dispersion.
material properly sold
Material that should have been demilitarized has not been properly demilitarized and is sold when it shouldn't have been.
disturbing extremely further looking obviously
These are obviously extremely disturbing and we're looking further at them.
unsaid
It's unsaid because that's not true. That's not the plan.
later plans postponed trip until
He (Cohen) did have tentative plans to go in June, and he has postponed any trip until some later date.
china committed engagement
He remains, of course, steadfastly committed to engagement with China as a long-term policy.