European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stars and stripes june 2007 Dod allocates maps for army use by Jeff Schogol stars and stripes the de sense department has allocated mine resistant ambush protected vehicles to the known As the vehicles Are larger than humvee and have proven to hold up much better against Roadside the Marine corps is in charge of ordering the vehicles for All branches of the ser said Bill a spokesman for Marine corps systems com so the corps has ordered of which the army is now slated to get Johnson Miles but the army has Given the joint map Effort enough Money for Only 900 he the army plans to give the corps the extra Money for the remaining 300 an army who declined to be said the army funding additionally supports contractor logistics procurement of government furnished equip and other support Cost for these the spokesman said in an email to stars and the army maps Are expected to be manufactured by february Johnson Miles after they leave the they will get Addon such As hammers and communications before being sent to sol Diers there is not yet a timeline for when the maps will be fielded to soldiers in but the maps will be delivered As soon As they Are Johnson Miles the joint requirements Over sight Council has approved maps for the corps and another for the he but the army has received a re quest from multinational corp Iraq for a Courtesy of International military and government Lac the Max pro seen above is the vehicle the Dod has authorized the army to cording to a memo from acting army Secretary Pete Geren to de sense Secretary Robert in the army is analysing theater numeric requirements to determine the most accurate Quantity of map vehicles needed based on Mission and said Geren in the obtained by stars and an army team has returned from the Central command theater of operations to deter mine the army theater needs for the army spokesman the army expects that maps could be produced by october 2008 and maps by july the Geren memo it took the army More than three years to Field roughly the same number of Upa Mored humvee in when the Iraq War the army had about 400 Upa Mored and it took until late 2006 to get close to of the vehicles in the army spokesman said email Jeff Schogol at  airmen urged not to order upgraded uniforms online stars and stripes Kadena air Okinawa airmen Are being cautioned about Rushing to buy the new air Man Battle uniforms from online even though web Sites Are hawking the availability of the new air Force officials say they Are not the authorized uniforms provided by the de sense Supply Center those Are expected to be available in army and air Force exchanges this these uniforms Are not certified by the air Force and May not meet air Force specifications for Quality and a recent air Force press release by purchasing Knockoff airmen risk obtaining Low Quality garments that May not Wear As Long As the garments obtained from certified manufacturers and no commercial Vendor has air Force certification for the manufacture and Sale of the new which become mandatory Wear by the release changes Are still in the works for the design of the new such As modifying the running shorts and using a lighter weight fabric for the Shortsleeve air Force officials say they dont want airmen to fall into the trap soldiers found themselves in when they bought knockoffs of their new army combat when their unauthorized uniforms fell apart they could not return them for our folks deserve to know what they or Are not said Randall Smith of the air Force uniform and recognition especially those who Are dont need and when you buy something Uncertain you run the risk of having your uniform fall apart at a very inconvenient one major Hazard is the Knockoff uniforms May not have the Builtin no infrared Quality that makes them undetectable by night vision were getting great reviews about the uniform and were thrilled that folks want to get it right Smith according to the we ask airmen to hold its and its Worth the malnourished orphans moved to better site by Sameer Yacoub the associated press Baghdad the 24 boys found severely malnourished in a Baghdad orphanage have been moved to a different building in the same facility and Are being properly cared iraqi officials said and iraqi soldiers found the boys last week naked in a dark some tied to Beds and too weak to stand once they were the military the director of the girls Sec Tion of the Elhanan orphanage said the boys had been transferred to her All such As clothes and medical have been provided for said Karima iraqi officials and the military said the boys had been moved from the coed building last month because it was deemed Ina pro Khalid p an iraqi orphan rests in a Bagh dad facility thursday after being removed from an orphanage earlier this private for them to live with they have now been returned to the original living a television news footage showed the most of whom apparently Are mentally Handi clothed and sitting in wheelchairs or Iron cribs in clean rooms a Stark contrast to the photos shown earlier this week by lbs news that showed Many of them lying naked on the floor in filthy the military said food and clothing were found in a nearby three who claimed to be and two the orphanage director and a were in toe building when the sol Diers arrived june according to the military two staffers have been arrest said Hamid the labor ministry inspector Gener Adel the health minis try inspector said arrest warrants were issued for three employees of the orphan but that they have gone into hiding and remain at he did not identify the three or say what jobs they held at the Gizmo prisons Days maybe numbered by Andrew Selsky the associated press prisoners in steel abusive in indefinite these elements of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay have provoked global outrage and May now be leading to its perhaps no other place in history has inspired More condemnation and controversy than Guantanamo where prisoners suspected of links to Al Aida and the Taliban face indefinite incarceration without trial and four have been driven to commit the detention Center opened on what was then a sleepy Navy base in Southeast Cuba in Janu Ary when bound and Blind folded prisoners were put into cages exposed to the merciless Sun and in the Syz years since the military Pris on has been transformed most detainees Are now held in con cretan steel senior Bush administration officials say they Are nearing a decision to close the offshore military prison saying they Are close to a consensus that this sym Bol of the global War on terrorism has become a if it is a major officials have Long insisted that Guantanamo is that its critics Are either misguided or More than 770 men have been held about half have been released or transferred to coun which promptly freed most of about 375 prisoners re deprived of any real Opportunity to Challenge the accusations against Guantanamo was born purely out of fear and hysteria following 11 but Over time More and More people have come to realize that we do not have to abandon our Basic principles to protect our said Tom a Washington attorney who has represented and i think the administration is coming to the same the military tried to shroud the detention operation in not even revealing who was held there until May when it was forced to do so in response to a Freedom of information act Law suit filed by the associated disturbing news came from the mostly from attorneys who sought hearings for the detainees in american when three detainees hanged them selves in their cells in june the Navy rear Admiral who was then the commander of Quantana i to called the suicides an act of m j Brennan asymmetric warfare against a Detainee walks and others sit As a guard looks on standing next to a human rights groups and actor hut within the fenced in grounds of the maximum Security prison at Neys were Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay naval