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Afghanistan and the region.” training The move follows a suicide bombing in July,
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nesses with capabilities relevant to undersea 160 Marines in Bulgaria with tanks, artil- eration the Parliamentary proceedings and other FWFSZ'SJEBZTFSWJOHUIFBFSPTQBDFBOE
and naval technologies. lery for training situations,” Suga said. But he added Abe told EFGFOTFJOEVTUSZPG4PVUIFSO$BMJGPS
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and Keyport, Wash., to engineer, build and sup- some 160 Marines accompanied the tanks and
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Boeing has announced that it plans to lay off mediately available. territorial disputes, making participation in the
employees at its Southern California-based sat- parade politically charged. AP Aerotech News and Review
ellite division. The Black Sea Rotational Force is a semi-
annual rotation of Marines and sailors under Explosion at U.S. base in Japan lights up 456 E. Ave. K-4, Suite 8
The Los Angeles Times reports that the aero- the U.S. European Command. It is based at the night sky Lancaster, CA 93535
space giant said Aug. 25 that it will lay off as Mihail Kogalniceanu base in Romania near the
many as several hundred employees at the El Black Sea port of Constanta. AP An explosion at a U.S. Army depot outside of e-mail: editor@aerotechnews.com
Segundo factory. Tokyo set off a large blaze that lit up the night Visit our web site at www.aerotechnews.com
Russian air, ground forces on exercises in sky early morning April 24, but there were no
Boeing says the cuts are because a customer western regions reports of injuries. September 3, 2015
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a pricey satellite. Other complications come as Russian air, ground and missile forces are The blast happened after midnight at the Sa-
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to reduce spending, the division has suffered. pursuing an increasingly intimidating policy Commander Bill Urban said.
toward Europe.
Boeing spokeswoman Linda Taira says man- Video on Japanese television, apparently shot
agers told employees Aug. 24 about the layoffs The Russian Defense Ministry said in a state- from an elevated place outside the post around
that will happen by the end of the year. AP ment Aug. 25 that 10 regiments equipped with DPVKRZVD¿UHLQWKHGLVWDQFHDQGVXE-
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Unclaimed remains of WWII veteran es- on “combat patrol routes” in the country’s into the sky. A woman told national broadcaster
corted to Arlington western and central military districts. It did not NHKWKDWLWVRXQGHGOLNH¿UHZRUNV
specify how far from the borders with Ukraine
After seven years sitting unclaimed in a Mar- and Western European countries the exercises A statement issued by the Army in Japan said
icopa County, Ariz., funeral home, the remains in the western region were. there are no indications of injuries, and the cause
of a World War II Navy veteran are making of the explosion is unknown. The building was
their journey to Arlington National Cemetery Separately, the Interfax news agency cited the not a hazardous materials storage facility, and the
for a formal military burial. military as saying artillery and helicopter exer- depot does not store ammunition or radiological
cises were taking place in the Pskov and Lenin- materials, the statement said.
The Missing in America Project is taking gradsky regions, both of which border former
Mildred Kennedy from Casa Grande to Virgin- Soviet Baltic republics. AP About 580 people work at the 500-acre depot,
ia with a motorcycle escort, the Casa Grande NHK said.
Dispatch reports. Along the way, the group will
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Mesa and Colorado.
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Kennedy died in 2008. She served onboard
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