Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
difficult exactly figure gone maximum relief weeks
Weeks have gone by with no coordination whatsoever, which has made it very difficult for the humanitarian relief organizations to get organized, to figure out exactly what they should be doing to maximum humanitarian advantage,
aircraft bring fighters number stealth total
That will bring our total of stealth fighters up to 24 in the theater, and our total number of aircraft up to about 220.
greece land move soon
He anticipated that they would be able to land soon and move through Greece to their posts.
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
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,
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.
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
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,
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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.