Wisconsin Guard Sends Off Plymouth-Based Unit Approximately 80 members of the Wisconsin Army National Guard's Battery B, 1st Battalion, 121st Field Artillery departed December 3rd for Fort Bliss, Texas for several weeks of mobilization training before deploying to Afghanistan to conduct fire support missions. http://1.usa.gov/TPARWW Wisconsin Guard Unit Driven...
Post-2014 Afghanistan Troop Levels Remain Undecided Pentagon Press Secretary George Little announced late November that Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has yet to forward a recommendation to the White House on how many U.S. troops should remain in Afghanistan after 2014. “It’s entirely premature to speculate on troop numbers in...
Dell Construction Co., Inc. Department of the Army- awarded $2,054,681 for the St. Croix Falls Wastewater Treatment Facility Project. Oshkosh Corporation Navy Contract- awarded $13,897,265 for he purchase of fiscal 2013 medium tactical vehicle replacement engineering change proposal kits, reducible height armor kits, and 300 Amp Alternators for the...
Pick your metaphor: coal-stuffed stocking, Mr. Grinch, nice-and-naughty list. Lawmakers are once again threatening to stay in session as long as it takes during the holiday season. In a message to House members Thursday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-VA., warned members that they would not be going home for...
According to First Read, everything out there suggests that Washington isn’t going off the cliff. The Washington Post reports that Republican centrists and even some conservatives are calling on House Speaker Boehner “to concede on rates now, while he still has some leverage to demand something in return.” And the...
This week Democrats adopted a deliberate strategy to slow walk Republicans to the edge of the fiscal cliff on a belief that mounting pressure from within the GOP will force conservatives to fold on tax hikes. And so far, each passing day seems to add another Republican voice to the...