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• Military members team up to make a difference (DCMilitary.com)
  A team of 115 Air Force, Army and Navy service members, their families and DoD civilians participated in a Joint Services National Family Volunteer Day at the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington, D.C., Nov. 15. National Family Day Volunteer Day was created by the Points of Light Foundation...
  
• National Guard remains at the ready (The Demopolis Times)
  DEMOPOLIS ? When people think of Veterans Day, they think of soldiers serving overseas, the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. The National Guard Armory also serves our country in many ways as well, from local needs to being deployed overseas.
  
• School celebrates (Watauga Democrat)
  First-grade students of Parkway Elementary held their second annual ?Bring a Vet to School Day? on Friday. Veterans from the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines, Army National Guard and the Navy were invited by students to attend the presentation.
  
• Not Home For The Holidays (Bradley News Weekly)
  The Hiwassee Chapter of the American Red Cross today announced a new course, Coping With Deployments: Psychological First Aid for Military Families, is now available.
  
• Vets recall days of service, tradition (Seguin Gazette-Enterprise)
  SEGUIN ? Juan DeLeon wears the topkick rank insignia of a first sergeant, the senior enlisted man in a U.S. Army or U.S. Marine Corps combat arms company.
  
• 2008 Linn County Veterans of the Year (Albany Democrat-Herald)
  Rick Bauman Rick Bauman of Lebanon served for two years and seven months in Vietnam as a petty officer third class with the U.S. Navy Seabees. He earned the National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, three Bronze Stars, FMF Combat in Service, Navy Unit Commendation Ribbon, Meritorious...
  
• Engraved with honor (The Oklahoma Daily)
  The Army National Guard 45th Division band played patriotic tunes while helicopters flew overhead Tuesday at a ceremony to unveil the Cleveland County Veterans Memorial at Reaves Park in Norman.
  
• Across time and tables, veterans share bonds (The Staunton News Leader)
  STAUNTON ? Over plates of lasagna and glasses of iced tea, a father and his son made small talk with a mother and her daughter across a table at the Elks Lodge on Sunday.
  
• Four-star journey began in Oklahoma (The Oklahoman)
  From its humble beginning 33 years ago at Fort Sill, the career of Ann E. Dunwoody hit a peak Friday never before reached by a woman in the U.S. military: four-star general.At a ceremony in Washington, she looked back on her years in uniform and said it was a credit to the Army ? and a great surp...
  
• Elder lauds veterans to legal audience (The Shreveport Times)
  The top general at Barksdale Air Force Base pays tribute to everyday heroes and warriors during the Shreveport Bar Association's annual veterans recognition luncheon.
  

UNS News Service
News from the United States Army Special Operations Command.

• Soldiers get help for the holidays
  FORT CARSON, Colo. (USASOC News Service, Nov. 21, 2008) - The military continually receives support from organizations and outside support systems, but especially during the holidays.
  
• Free Christmas trees fro Soldiers
  FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Courtesy of Fort Bragg MWR, Nov. 21, 2008) ? The holidays are about giving. Thanks to FedEx and the National Christmas Tree Association?s Christmas Spirit Foundation Fort Bragg will be giving free, real Christmas trees to Soldiers and their Families this year.
  
• Team effort brings Army award to 5th Group DFAC
  FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (USASOC News Service, Nov. 20, 2008) ? Operating a first class dining facility is not what most people think of when the term Special Forces is mentioned. But that changed recently when the Oasis Inn was named a runner-up in the 2008 Philip A. Connelly Award for Excellence in A...
  
• Special Forces bids farewell to senior chief warrant officer
  FORT BRAGG, N.C. (USASOC News Service, Nov. 19, 2008) ? Army Special Forces? senior chief warrant officer said farewell to the regiment at Kennedy Hall Nov. 17 after 39 years of service.
  

U.S. Joint Forces Command
Headquartered in Norfolk, Va., U.S. Joint Forces Command is one of nine unified commands in the Department of Defense. Among his duties, the commander of USJFCOM oversees the command's roles in transformation, experimentation, joint training, interoperability and force provision as outlined in th...

• Multinational conference focuses on joint solutions
  More than 230 participants from 33 countries are meeting at the Concept Development and Experimentation Conference in Norway to focus on the problems facing their armed forces and to develop partnerships to solve those problems in the long term.
  
• Family, friends welcome back Task Force Ramadi
  Service members from Task Force Ramadi return after a nine-month deployment in Iraq.
  
• Command announces solicitation dates
  U.S. Joint Forces Command officials have announced when the process for requests for proposal for two major command support contracts will begin.
  
• Distance learning efforts garners awards
  U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability received the Association for Enterprise Integration's Excellence in Enterprise Integration Award and two awards from Training Magazine for excellence in contributions to joint training.
  
• USJFCOM hosts concert to honor local veterans
  U.S. Joint Forces Command hosted the 13th annual Salute to Veterans concert Nov. 8 at Norfolk?s Chrysler Hall honoring veterans both past and present.
  
• Command provides contract pre-solicitation information to industry
  Representatives from more than 140 companies received information about an upcoming U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) contract recompetition during a conference in Norfolk, Va.
  
• Joint fires team, Army's BCTP team prepare corps headquarters for deployment
  Personnel from U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team (JFIIT) and the Army's Battle Command Training Program (BCTP) worked with the Joint Warfighting Center's Deployable Training Team to enhance the joint fires knowledge of the U.S. Army's I Corps as part of...
  
• Joint fires team supports joint training integration event
  U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team recently supported U.S. and coalitions partners in a joint training integration event between an Air Force exercise and an Army brigade combat team training rotation.
  
• USJFCOM working to prepare forces for deployment
  U.S. Joint Forces Command will conduct the final phase of Unified Endeavor 09-01 Operation Iraqi Freedom from Oct. 21 - 31 at selected locations in the United States and United Kingdom to prepare units slated to deploy to Iraq early next year.
  
• Command posts contract conference details notice
  U.S. Joint Forces Command posted a notice on the Federal Business Opportunities (FEDBIZOPS) Web site to notify industry of a conference later this month which will provide an overview of a major upcoming joint concept development and experimentation contract recompete.