Lance Corporal Johnny Jones, an AN/PRC-25 radio operator for D Battery, 12th Marines, relays the message for artillery coodinates.Marines use an AN/PRC-77 field radio to communicate during an equipment reloading operation, part of exercise Ocean Venture '88.US Marine Corps (USMC) Sergeant (SGT) Brandon Shofne, 2nd Combat Engineers Battalion (CEB), uses an MBITR AN/PRC-148 to radio headquarters with descriptions of the ordnance found during a weapon cache sweep in Kharma, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.Spc. Robert Irwin, an infantryman of 2nd Platoon Dog Company, Task Force Gold Geronimo conducts a security patrol in the Paktya province, Jan. 30. TF Gold Geronimo is part of the Spartan Brigade.
Officials are examining facilities across the military medical system, which could mean closing some facilities or downgrading some hospitals to clinics.
Plans to cut more than 80,000 staffers from VA offices would severely hurt benefits delivery, said Arizona Democrat Sen. Ruben Gallego, a Marine Corps vet.