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As acting associate director for national preparedness of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from 1981 to 1983, Colonel John R. Brinkerhoff, US Army Retired, was responsible for policy formulation and program oversight of the Civil Defense Program, National Mobilization Preparedness Program, Continuity of Government, and the National Defense Stockpile. During that time the United States had a program to Defend America against a massive nuclear attack as well as attacks by communist agents and special forces troops. Colonel Brinkerhoff was also deputy executive secretary of the Emergency Mobilization Preparedness Board (EMPB), the senior level inter-agency forum to coordinate all...

Per Drudge... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/29/obama-london-visit-uk-g20

With an entourage of 500 staff, an armour-plated limousine and a fleet of decoy helicopters, America's new president will arrive for his first visit to Britain amid huge razzmatazz on Tuesday for the G20 summit.

NOWRAK, Afghanistan, March 24, 2008 – The landscape in Afghanistan’s Zabul province reminds some Americans of a scene from a western movie. So did Afghan law enforcement when Army Capt. Curtiss Robinson and his police mentoring team rode into the province’s Shahjoy district. Army Capt. Dave Perry and Afghan National Police commander Sakhidad plan a security operation against insurgents in the Shahjoy district of Afghanistan’s Zabul province. Sakhidad commands police officers at Hassan Karez patrol base in Shahjoy, which maintains security and civil order along Highway One and all populated areas in the district. Perry leads the district’s police...