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The committee heard testimony from Department of Defense officials on the administration’s new policy concerning homosexuals in the U.S. military. The previous day, President Clinton announc…

Defense Secretary Les Aspin and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff spoke in a news conference following a speech by President Bill Clinton on the new policy on homosexuals in the U.S. mili…

A group of veterans who were supporting Senator Kerry’s campaign spoke to reporters about the reasons they have chosen to endorse Senator Kerry. They also responded to questions from the pre…

Former Bush supporters Bill Weiss, Mike Meklemberg, Louis Dishman, Tom Ethridge, and John Brocato spoke about their decisions to stop supporting President Bush and explained why they will vo…

Gen. McPeak responded to Pres. Bush’s weekly radio address, emphasizing the President’s initial reluctance to cooperate with the September 11 Commission.

General Merrill McPeak, the Air Force Chief of Staff, addressed attendees of the monthly meeting of the Armed Services Communications and Electronics Association. He spoke about the state o…

Following a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, President Clinton addressed American veterans at Arlington National Ceremony. The President expressed the nation’s grat…

The commission heard testimony from Defense Secretary Les Aspin, General Colin Powell and other members of the Joint Chiefs on the list of military bases slated for closure by the Department…

Air Force Chief of Staff General Merrill McPeak briefed reporters in the Pentagon on the punishment for an air force general who delivered derogatory comments concerning the president in a s…

Les Aspin, Defense Secretary briefed reporters in the Pentagon on the introduction of a new policy to allow women positions on combat aircraft and open up new positions for women on Navy shi…

The committee heard testimony from the chiefs of each armed service on what their department was doing to eliminate sexual harassment and discrimination. The witnesses were also given the ch…

This was the third of five meetings looking at the 1991 START agreement negotiated in Moscow between the United States and the former Soviet Union. Secretary Dick Cheney and General Colin Po…

The panelists discussed the impact of defense spending cuts on the various branches of the military, and how the army, navy, marines and the air force would handle the so-called defense buil…

Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs heard testimony for Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, which would reduce the stock of conventional kept in Europe by th…

The subcommittee examined rules which restrict women from serving in military combat. Currently, a 1948 law prohibits women from serving in combat positions. The Navy, Marine Corps and Air F…

Gen. McPeak spoke to reporters on the air campaign of the Persian Gulf war. His presentation on the air campaign, subtitled “the mother of all briefings,” explained with the use of diagrams …