The pentagon is looking to shrink the army to preworld war ii level. Getting rid of a complete unit of attack jets. Lisa stark, what kind of levels are we talking about . Chuck hagel said this is the first away things will look like after years of war. The smallest since world war ii, particularly land forces. The army up to 570 tow troops in the army the president promised to end the wars in afghanistan and iraq of course and reduces to levels back to 490,000. Defense secretary hagel is talking about more cuts down to 440 to 450,000 in the army. Hes not only talking about changing personnel, it is a change in Weapons Systems and a whole new way of doing business. Here is what the secretary had to say. After iraq and afghanistan we are no longer sizing the military for long sessions. We must retain our edge over technical adversaries. The military must be able to respond quickly to all contingency anies and be able to respond should any possible emergency occur. Sequestration was staye
Church as well as a school. It looks like the building has been evacuated. Two crane operators were hospitalized with nonlife threatening injuries. A shot a setting in at the university of maryland. Two students are dead and a third in a hospital after an earlymorning fire turned into an ambush. John gonzales has the latest. Anxiety in their hearts, these university of maryland students are walking to the house where one of their friends lived. I cannot believe it happened. Im really worried about them. A murdersuicides involving three university of maryland students. There were about six to seven shots. This student heard the gunshots that hurt one student and killed a third. The last one he heard was a graduate student taking his own life in the backyard. I went back to sleep and did i woke up 10 minutes later and then i saw cop cars. The student said a fire in the basement. This picture shows the damage. He left the home and went to the front of the house. At that point seven shots
Merida Pinzon passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the Lockport Union Sun Journal on 2024-04-11.