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06/21/2001:  Flag Officer Announcements

06/19/2001:  Vietnam War MIAs Identified

06/19/2001:  President Bush Highlights Disabilities Initiative

06/19/2001:  General Officer Announcements

06/18/2001:  Rumsfeld Creates Two New Management Councils

06/18/2001:  New Director of DARPA Named

06/14/2001:  General Officer Announcement

06/14/2001:  Exercise Roving Sands Begins June 15

06/12/2001:  General Officer Announcements

06/11/2001:  DoD Further Slows Anthrax Vaccination Effort

06/11/2001:  Flag Officer Announcement

06/08/2001:  Flag Officer Announcements

06/08/2001:  DoD Awards Grants to Minority Institutions

06/08/2001:  Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness Sworn In

06/08/2001:  Guided Missile Destroyer Preble To Be Christened

06/08/2001:  DuBois to Lead Defense Installations and Environment

06/07/2001:  New Computer Disposal Procedures Adopted

06/07/2001:  General Officer Announcement

06/07/2001:  New Tricare Executive Director Named

06/06/2001:  Joint Strike Fighter Agreement Signed

06/06/2001:  DoD Presents 2001 Value Engineering Achievement Awards

06/06/2001:  WWII Airmen Recovered in Tunisia

06/04/2001:  William J. Haynes II Sworn in as General Counsel

06/01/2001:  James G. Roche Sworn In as Secretary of the Air Force

05/31/2001:  DoD Says Chemical Agent "Unlikely" to Have Caused Blisters

05/31/2001:  DoD Releases Final Report on Chemical Incidents Reported by 11TH Marines

05/31/2001:  Thomas E. White Becomes Secretary of the Army

05/31/2001:  Navy Delays DD 21 Source Selection Decision

05/29/2001:  Remains of Three U.S. Servicemen Recovered in North Korea

05/29/2001:  Gordon England Sworn in as Secretary of the Navy

05/25/2001:  Flag Officer Announcement

05/25/2001:  General Officer Appointed to Reserve Forces Policy Board

05/24/2001:  6,000 U.S., Allied Forces Launch Joint Patriot '01

05/23/2001:  President Reenlists 100 Servicemembers

05/23/2001:  SecDef National Moment of Remembrance Message

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