What kind of person would use humans as shields?

A NATO bomb went astray and we don’t know what it hit.

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.

He anticipated that they would be able to land soon and move through Greece to their posts.

There’s a wide range of aircraft load masters, … who … aren’t just combat people, but they’re people who load the C-17s and other transport planes to carry humanitarian aid or military equipment into the...

After every flight there is a third-party review of the flight tapes to make sure that there was a full compliance with all flight rules and regulations.

The train has pretty much left the station … We believe this will be painful for the Serbs. We hope that relatively quickly … the Serbs will realize they have made a mistake.

That will bring our total of stealth fighters up to 24 in the theater, and our total number of aircraft up to about 220.

These are the forces that are being used to attack the Kosovar Albanians in Kosovo, and we will continue to focus on those targets.

[Asked whether the U.S. military is as] strong and capable … Well, the military is about the same size, a little smaller, and I would say it is more capable.

We no longer deploy those land mines. We no longer make them, and we no longer export land mines of any sort.

we have increased military pay and benefits and increased money for arms procurement and training.

We’re doing all that. We think it’s good that Governor Bush wants to continue these programs.

In Bosnia, for instance, they play a crucial role in setting up these joint commissions that bring Army people and local people together to talk about governance issues, providing humanitarian aid.

There may be times when we have to rescue pilots and the less said the better for the safety of the pilots.

Weeks have gone by with no coordination whatsoever, which has made it very difficult for the humanitarian relief organizations to get organized, to figure out exactly what they should be doing to maximum humanitarian advantage,

In terms of NEO (non-combatant evacuation operations), obviously if the Indonesian army performs its job then there shouldn’t be need for an evacuation,

The U.N. is sending a team that’s supposed to arrive tomorrow (Wednesday), to evaluate the situation and then return to New York, I believe, on Friday to report their findings. And depending on what they...

There are heavy concentrations of artillery along the border between Kosovo and Macedonia. There are only 14 roads into Kosovo — two from Macedonia. These roads are mined. The bridges are mined. There are built...

There are no precise figures right now and the reason is that the number of troops we’ll have to commit for a peace implementation force will depend on what type of peace agreement we are...

Force protection is the job of unit commanders in Bosnia and elsewhere, and they have the authority to take steps that they think are appropriate to match the threat they face.

It was not ready to go because typically when you drive around you don’t have the thing ready to fire.

Air Force Reserve and Guard C-130s have flown more than 525 hours, made 490 sorties and dropped more than 11.4 million pounds of fire retardant chemicals,

Our spending now is a little less than $300 billion a year. It’s.. as I say, there are always ways to spend more money, or to spend it faster. There are always demands to modernize.

This soldier got prompt visitation from the ICRC as well as prompt medical care. So we have yet to see any delivery on the Serb promise that they plan to abide by the terms of...

I’m not sure that the fact that the launch facility is primitive makes the missiles any less threatening.

[Cost estimates are often difficult to come by and they are even harder to stick to.] I am learning that all numbers rise, so I think there is a good chance it will be more...

I’d say it’s a stronger, more supple military. I think that there have been important improvements in technology, important increases in investment, important improvements in quality of life

They (Paramount Pictures) have a right to make the movies any way they want to make them. We pay attention to how they portray the military.

need to embrace, and utilize, the latest technology for force protection

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,’

I just don’t think we know at this stage, but we have to think in terms of big numbers — bigger than 15,000 certainly.

We would take almost any reasonable action before reaching a point of having to make a decision about destroying an American plane over American air space.

First of all, consensual sex between an officer and an enlisted person or between a sergeant and a trainee is — is a violation of good order and discipline.

My understanding is that they (the government in Jakarta) have provided a battalion of forces from outside of East Timor, … And that they were able to turn back an assault by militia groups against...

It’s certainly one of the things we’ll be looking at — that we’re looking at very closely. And we’re looking at a number of possible sites to monitor what was going on there. But I...

We have analyzed yesterday’s information and found that an AGM-130 (missile) did miss its target and explode in a residential neighborhood several kilometers from its target.

Material that should have been demilitarized has not been properly demilitarized and is sold when it shouldn’t have been,

It’s something that’s on their mind every minute of the day when they’re on duty and frequently when they’re off duty as well.

they have to follow rules that will keep them farther away from civilian planes, so they don’t trigger this system.

These are advisories that highlight, one, the State Department’s warning: and two, other information that’s been collected,

In the past, under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization status of forces agreement, we have not agreed to local jurisdiction. But, as I said, this case is still under review.

These are obviously extremely disturbing and we’re looking further at them.

We have not yet seen signs that Serbian troops or special police forces or paramilitary are moving out, but we’ve certainly seen preparations for moving out,

It will be another substantive strike. It will be severe.

Secondly, … the military is carrying out on a regular basis it’s normal engagement policy, a policy with 100,000 — nearly 100,000 troops forward-deployed in Europe and nearly 100,000 troops forward-deployed in the Asia-Pacific region.

The encouraging thing is that, after a couple of days, the Yugoslav government has announced that they will be treated as POWs,

Everybody agrees that we don’t want a security vacuum in Kosovo.

But altogether, we think that we have a better chance of maintaining the type of stability we have achieved in Asia through a full dialogue with China, and that’s what we’ll be working on with...

This was a serious, possibly tragic situation.