Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
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
agreed atlantic case forces local north status treaty
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.
army army-and-navy job obviously performs terms
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,
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.
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,
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,
civilian flying military stay trained worry
The flying public, I believe, has nothing to worry about. The military is trained to stay well away from civilian airliners.
civilian flying military stay trained worry
The flying public, I believe, has nothing to worry about, ... The military is trained to stay well away from civilian airliners.
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.
deal figuring issue main
The main issue was figuring out where it was going, We didn't have to deal with other options.
astray bomb nato
A NATO bomb went astray and we don't know what it hit.
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.