Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
agreement air change decided defense deputy drafts force mutual secretary subject until work
Drafts are not final, and they're subject to change until they're final. So... by mutual agreement, the secretary of the Air Force and the deputy secretary of defense decided that there was more work to do and that's being done.
increases life quality
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
completing early minds readiness training
I don't think completing your training early qualifies in most people's minds as a readiness problem.
aware huge problem
I am not aware that there has been a huge problem
greece land move soon
He anticipated that they would be able to land soon and move through Greece to their posts.
deal figuring issue main
The main issue was figuring out where it was going, We didn't have to deal with other options.
along artillery attacking easy kosovo last majority nato percent perhaps planes relatively several targeting weeks
The massed artillery is relatively easy for NATO planes to target. And we have been targeting that, and have now, we believe, removed the majority of the artillery in Kosovo -- perhaps as much as 90 percent of the artillery in Kosovo in the last several weeks -- by attacking massed artillery along the borders.
drive ready
It was not ready to go because typically when you drive around you don't have the thing ready to fire.
clearly coherent disperse forces harder operating time wary
The forces are clearly more wary of being hit. They've had to disperse more and are having a harder time operating in large, coherent units.
astray bomb nato
A NATO bomb went astray and we don't know what it hit.
announced couple government treated
The encouraging thing is that, after a couple of days, the Yugoslav government has announced that they will be treated as POWs,
appear basis forces forth iraqis missiles move moving sort southern time
The Iraqis move forces back and forth on sort of an unpredictable basis from time to time; they do appear to be moving some missiles and other forces into the southern no-fly zone.
disturbing extremely further looking obviously
These are obviously extremely disturbing and we're looking further at them.
air dropped fire flown force guard million pounds reserve
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,