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LEFT: Ken Whittemore, assistant superintendent of human resources of the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District, plays chess while on a tour of the youth center at Travis Air Force Base, June 13. School officials from Vacaville, Fairfield- Suisun and Travis unified school districts toured Travis AFB this week. The visit provided a chance to understand the unique needs of military families and raise awareness in their districts on the advantages and disadvantages of being a military student.
BOTTOM LEFT: Officials from Vacaville, Fairfield- Suisun and Travis unified school districts arrive for a tour of the youth center at Travis Air Force Base, June 13. The visit provided a chance to understand the unique needs of military families and raise awareness at their districts on the advantages and disadvantages of being a military student.
BOTTOM CENTER Aiden Clary, 2022-23 California Military Youth of the Year, speaks to officials from Vacaville, Fairfield- Suisun and Travis unified school districts during a tour of the teen zone at Travis Air Force Base, June 13.
BOTTOM RIGHT: Officials from Vacaville, Fairfield- Suisun and Travis unified school districts tour the teen zone at Travis Air Force Base, June 13.
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As the California sun dried up the green grass on and around Travis AFB, a low rumble could be felt as the natural resource program deployed a flock of 600 sheep May 31, 2023, around natural resource conservation areas.
For the past two years, the natural resource program has collaborated with Kaos Sheep Outfit to supply the fluffy friends, to help reduce wildfire risk to the installation.
“Sheep are better than lawn mowers,” said Christa Rolls, a wildlife biologist embedded with the 60th Civil Engineer Squadron and natural resource program official. “Mowing leaves the dead grass behind, which does not reduce the fire hazards. Sheep remove all standing vegetation and leave little residue behind.”
Travis AFB and the surrounding communities are no strangers to the effects of wildfires. In 2020, the base and local community of Solano County evacuated due to the Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit Lightning Complex Fire. In 2017, during the Atlas Fire in
northern California, Team Tra vis supported the Federal Emer gency Management Agency by providing the staging areas and space necessary to assist civil au thorities with fire relief efforts.
According to Melvin Self, 60th CES assistant chief of training, the fire department can control or prevent grassland fire in two ways: education and removal of fuel.
“Having the combination of sheep and cattle graze on the grass and brush is a great alter native mitigation of fuel for fire on base,” said Self. “It reduces the grade of the leftover vegeta tion. The stalks or brush remain ing won’t burn as easily as grass since they contain more mois ture.”
The natural grazing from the sheep in these areas also helps improve the habitat for threatened and endangered species that live here at Travis by eliminating the need for herbicides and machinery when it comes to weeds and thatches, say officials with the natural resource program.
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The Pentagon has uncovered a significant accounting error that led it to overvalue the amount of military equipment it sent to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion last year - by $6.2 billion.
The “valuation errors,” as a Pentagon spokeswoman put it, will allow the Pentagon to send more weapons to Ukraine now before going to Congress to request more money.
Ukraine is mounting a counteroffensive to regain parts of its territory, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is urging backers to send more weapons, more quickly.
The error, which was first reported last month at a lower amount of about $3 billion, occurred because Pentagon officials erroneously calculated the totals using replacement values for the weapons, rather than their current values, said spokeswoman Sabrina Singh.
The calculation ultimately was off by $2.6 billion in the 2022 fiscal year and $3.6 billion in 2023, she said Tuesday. But the errors in no way “impacted the provision of support to Ukraine,” she said.
The Biden administration has sent more than $40 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since Russia invaded 16 months ago, according to the Pentagon.
The administration last week unveiled a package of military assistance to Ukraine worth up to $325 million. The package, which includes tanks and artillery, is designed to support the counteroffensive and marks the 40th time that the administration has moved to draw from the Defense Department’s weapons stocks to aid Ukraine since August 2021, the Pentagon says.
But support for U.S. assistance
to Ukraine has been declining, particularly among Republicans. In a survey conducted this month by the Pew Research Center, 44 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said the United States is giving too much aid to Ukraineup 35 points from the month following Russia’s invasion. Support from Democrats and those who lean Democratic has remained high and relatively steady during that time.
With the 2024 presidential election campaign underway, pressure is growing on the administration to justify its generous financial support of Ukraine and to ensure that the aid is not being misused or wasted.
The Pentagon first revealed last month that it uncovered “inconsistencies in equipment valuation for Ukraine.” Officials had warned that the amount could grow as the department reviewed its previous aid packages.
The errors free up funds that can be allocated without congressional approval before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.
Singh, the Pentagon spokeswoman, said Tuesday that the errors were identified “during the department’s regular oversight of our execution of presidential drawdown authority for Ukraine.”
“In a significant number of cases, services used replacement costs rather than net book value, thereby overestimating the value of the equipment drawn down from U.S. stocks and provided to Ukraine,” she said.
“Once we discovered this misvaluation, the comptroller reissued guidance on March 31st clarifying how to value equipment in line with the financial management regulation and DOD policy,” she added.
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As far as the world knew, Robert Ballard had a singular focus in 1985: to pinpoint the location of the Titanic, the behemoth passenger liner that had disappeared into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean decades earlier, killing more than 1,500 people.
A more complicated truth about the search came into focus years later. Ballard, an accomplished oceanographer, had discovered the ship’s location on the tail end of a top-secret U.S. Navy investigation into the fates of two sunken nuclear submarines.
At the time, the public was meant to be blind to Ballard’s main mission.
“The Navy never expected me to find the Titanic, and so when that happened, they got really nervous because of the publicity,” Ballard told National Geographic in 2008. “But people were so focused on the legend of the Titanic they never connected the dots.”
The 1912 sinking of the ship with 2,200 passengers on board captured the public imagination, prompting hundreds of songs, dozens of books and a handful of movies, as well as new safety measures
conflicting reports of its position when it sank meant that previous efforts had failed.
In 1982, Ballard approached military officials asking them to fund submersible technology to look for the Titanic. An official from the Navy’s submarine warfare program responded that they would provide money for the device but not for finding the infamous passenger liner.
Instead, they wanted Ballard to travel to the sites of the USS Thresher and USS Scorpion, which had sunk in the north Atlantic Ocean in 1963 and 1968, respectively. The Navy wanted Ballard to photograph the wrecks. It was interested in the fate of the submarines’ nuclear reactors and whether there was any evidence that the U.S.S.R., still immersed in the Cold War with the United States, had shot down the Scorpion.
If Ballard finished that mission early, he could look for the Titanic, located somewhere between the downed submarines. But Navy officials doubted he would have enough time to find anything, he said later.
Ballard, who had been a naval intelligence officer for 30 years, told the military that he would “take whatever I can get,” he recalled to the St. Petersburg
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So down Ballard went, into the ocean’s depths to the naval submarines. There, he noticed something about how currents affect debris: Heavier items sink faster, leaving a trail of waste.
Ballard realized that knowledge could be the breakthrough he had been looking for. If he could find the Titanic’s line of debris, he could find the vessel.
“So it was kind of an arrow if you just knew which way it was
pointing,” ABC News host Diane Sawyer said in a 2008 interview with Ballard.
“And it points directly to the ship,” Ballard replied.
The end of Ballard’s naval mission was fast approaching by the time he began his search for the Titanic. On the day of the discovery, he was lying in his bunk on board the research vessel, reading to keep his mind off the stress, when a cook entered the room. The watch team was looking for Ballard.
When Ballard got to the ship’s control van, his colleagues showed him what their sonarand camera-equipped robot had
detected. One of the Titanic’s boilers was visible through the grainy footage, History reported.
Seventy-three years and many failed search missions after the Titanic sank, the world’s most famous ship had finally been found.
The crew celebrated - then paused upon realizing it was almost 2:20 a.m., the time the vessel had slipped 13,000 feet to the ocean floor. They had a brief service for those lost, Ballard told reporters after returning to an ocean research center in Woods Hole, Mass., on Cape Cod.
The search team members were greeted there as heroes, with about 100 reporters
crowding the dock and two TVnetwork helicopters circling in the air. Coast Guard boats blasted whistles as the research ship approached with Ballard standing on a wing, smiling and giving a thumbs-up.
But his triumphant expression belied the true range of his emotions.
“It was one thing to have won - to have found the ship,” Ballard wrote later. “It was another thing to be there. That was the spooky part.”
Although the Titanic had
snapped in two, its bow remained upright. A missing skylight offered a glimpse of the spot where an ornate staircase once stood. The ocean floor was littered with china plates, furniture and an unopened bottle of champagne. Chandeliers still hung from ceilings.
The scene, Ballard said, was that of a haunted house - mostly intact, with scores of leather shoes left as the only signs of those who had perished.
The Biden administration is conducting indirect bilateral talks with Iran that it hopes, at a minimum, will curtail Tehran’s nuclear program short of weapons development, end its proxy attacks on U.S. forces in Syria and bring home three longtime American prisoners in exchange for limited access to some of Iran’s billions of dollars frozen overseas.
Begun several months ago, the talks are not a revival of negotiations over restoring the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, according to U.S., European and Middle Eastern officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue. Until President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the agreement in 2018, it eased U.S. sanctions on Iran in exchange for verifiable nuclear restrictions.
President Biden’s attempts to reinstate the deal ended last fall, after more than a year of sporadic negotiations, when Iran rejected what the United States and its European partners believed was a viable offer.
Instead, the current discussions are an attempt to draw clear red lines and reverse what has been a steady escalation in
Iranian aggression and tensions, exacerbated by Tehran’s crackdown on protests and weapons shipments to Russia for use in Ukraine.
U.S. negotiators have warned that further attacks in Syria, the most recent of which took place in March, and continued highlevel uranium enrichment that has come dangerously close to weapons-grade levels will elicit a response - including military action - that neither side wants.
Administration officials have tried to downplay the scope of the diplomatic effort since reports that a new U.S.-Iran agreement was imminent first surfaced in Israeli media earlier this month. While not denying indirect contacts with Iran, U.S. officials have rejected any characterization of a pending “deal.”
White House and State Department officials declined to comment on the ongoing talks.
But the media reports have led to outspoken criticism by the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some U.S. lawmakers.
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said in a Thursday letter to Biden that he was “deeply disturbed” that the administration
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was re-engaging with Tehran, “and that the results of these discussions have included the apparent greenlighting of sizable payments to Iran.”
Hours after McCaul released his letter, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters that “some of the reports that we’ve seen about an agreement about nuclear matters and detainees are simply not accurate or not true.”
The talks are part of the administration’s efforts to use quiet, high-level diplomacy to address problems in the Middle East and Persian Gulf, where China and Russia have expanded their presence as U.S. influence and interest have been perceived to be waning. Those efforts also include increased outreach to Saudi Arabia to nudge it toward relations with Israel and promote a
settlement of the war in Yemen.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, appeared last week to signal his approval for some sort of arrangement with the West, saying it was “not a problem,” as long as the country’s nuclear infrastructure was not “changed,” according to video footage of his remarks during a meeting with scientists and officials working in Iran’s nuclear industry.
Khamenei also said that Iran should maintain “cooperation and communication” with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), while reiterating his longtime position that Iran was not pursuing nuclear weapons, which he said were “contradictory to religion.”
A senior European diplomat long involved in talks with Iran said that the administration’s European partners were not entirely sure of the contours of the current discussions, but noted that “it is clear that they are aware
that if the Iranian nuclear program continues at full speed the crisis is unavoidable.”
Representatives from Britain, France and Germany, which were signatories to the original nuclear agreement along with Russia and China, met in the United Arab Emirates last week with Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani.
U.S. officials insist they have offered nothing to Iran in exchange for progress on the nuclear and Syria fronts beyond refraining from retaliation and the prospect of more substantive diplomatic discussions. The talks are “meant to be de-escalatory,” said one person familiar with them. “Nobody in this administration wants anything bad to happen in the next year and a half,” as the United States approaches elections in 2024.
“Everybody agrees that the JCPOA as written is not going to come back,” this person said, referring to the 2015 accord, which is officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. “We’re not going to get a new agreement based upon some magic breakout time.” Under the JCPOA, Iran agreed to limit uranium enrichment to 3.67 percent purity, with strict international monitoring. U.S. intelligence said that would prevent for at least one year any “breakout,” defined as amassing enough weaponsgrade fissile material for one nuclear bomb.
Since U.S. withdrawal from the JCPOA, Iran has enriched and stockpiled uranium at 60 percent purity, following a path that its government laid out in 2020. Breakout is now estimated at a few weeks, and inspectors in February discovered traces enriched to about 84 percent - barely below the 90 percent required for nuclear weapons - although the IAEA
suggested the small amount might have been a “mistake.”
“We’re never going to get 3.6 percent enrichment caps again,” the person familiar with the talks said. “That was a onetime opportunity that we took. On the other hand, I see no rationale for 60 percent. . . . So it would be good to work to see if you could get the 60 percent . . . blended to 20 or 19.9 percent. . . . I think trying to go beyond that is just a fool’s errand.”
Still, the person said, “I think doing something is better than doing nothing.”
Others disagree. Olli Heinonen, who oversaw the IAEA inspections of Iran’s nuclear program in the 2000s, said the restrictions that have been described in news accounts - that the administration would be willing to settle for 60 percent enrichment - would barely blunt Iran’s ability to build a nuclear weapon quickly if it decides
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to do so. With Tehran’s current stockpile and vast underground assemblages of centrifuges, the timeline for accumulating sufficient highly enriched uranium for a weapon would remain quite short, he said. And it might be impossible for outsiders to tell if the regime has made a decision to build a device.
The IAEA has been wrangling with Iran to restore full compliance with inspections and monitoring. Without that, it is an open question whether inspectors could spot a small enrichment plant that might be “the size of
a supermarket,” said Heinonen, now a distinguished fellow at the Stimson Center, a Washington think tank.
The talks began several weeks after a March 23 drone attack on U.S. forces in Syria that killed an American contractor. Within hours, the United States had responded with an airstrike on an Iranian facility in Syria that killed a number of Syrian proxy fighters. Iran, which has maintained a channel of direct communications between its U.N. ambassador and Robert Malley, the chief U.S. negotiator to the
now-defunct JCPOA talks, then sent indications it wanted to talk.
Two meetings have since taken place between Iranian officials and Brett McGurk, the top Middle East official on the National Security Council, with the Persian Gulf sultanate of Oman serving as the venue and go-between and nearby Qatar also playing a role.
According to people familiar with the talks, McGurk told Tehran that on the current path it was on - with enrichment at 60 percent and inspectors being blocked from crucial tasks - there was no chance for renewed diplomacy that might lead to a reduction in sanctions.
Negotiations over the
detainees - Iranian American business executives Emad Shargi, Morad Tahbaz and Siamak Namazi - imprisoned on what the United States considers bogus espionage charges, are technically separate and conducted through Swiss officials.
But McGurk has reiterated the administration’s long-standing position that it could not envision real progress on other issues until the prisoners are released and Iran accounts for the 2007 disappearance there of retired FBI agent and CIA contractor Robert Levinson, who is presumed dead.
It is on the detainee issue that officials, and reports from the region, have indicated some progress.
“I can say they are close,” Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi said in an interview Wednesday with Al-Monitor, a Washington-based website covering the Middle East. “This is probably a question of technicalities,” he said. “They need to have a framework [and] a time frame of how this should be orchestrated. I think they’re ironing those things out.”
“Those things,” Albusaidi made clear, referred to a potential release of detainees tied to the unfreezing of a portion of Iranian funds that have been held overseas for years under U.S. sanctions.
He spoke just a day after
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Two key senators said they will introduce a bipartisan bill Tuesday to clamp down on the secretive practice of retired U.S. service members who cash in their military expertise by working as consultants and
contractors for foreign governments.
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The proposed legislation would also require the federal government to publicly disclose the names, job duties and salary details for all retired service members who receive compensation from foreign governments - something the Pentagon and State Department have long resisted.
The senators said they were acting in response to investigations by The Washington Post and the nonprofit Project on Government Oversight (POGO), which found that more than 500 retired U.S. military personnel - including scores of generals and
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Iranian Finance Minister Ehsan Khandouzi said that at least some money will be released “in the coming weeks,” according to Iranian media reports. Khandouzi made no reference to a prisoner release.
Allowing frozen Iranian assets to flow to Tehran is particularly fraught in political terms. The release of billions of frozen Iranian dollars concurrent with the freeing of U.S. hostages and implementation of the JCPOA in January 2016 brought harsh criticism for the Obama administration, which Republicans charged had handed over “pallets of cash” that Iran would use to fund terrorists.
The money under discussion would come from about $7 billion held in two South Korean banks under an arrangement initially authorized by the Trump administration that allowed for purchases of Iranian oil, as long as payments for it were deposited in banks to which Iran had no access.
Under current regulations, theoretically, the money could be released to pay third parties for
admirals - have gone to work for foreign governments since 2015, mostly in countries known for political repression.
Under federal law, retired troops are permitted to work for foreign governments if they first obtain approval from their branch of the armed forces and the State Department. But federal agencies have fought to keep virtually all details about the arrangements a secret. The Post had to sue the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps and the State Department under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain more than 4,000 pages of documents that shed light on the matter.
“The Department of Defense is letting too many retired
Iranian humanitarian purchases that are not subject to sanctions, such as of food and medicine, a pathway that India and other Iranian energy customers have used. But South Korean banks have declined to release any of the money without explicit and unequivocal U.S. agreement that until now has not been forthcoming.
Although any agreement is believed to be months away, if it even can be reached, the Treasury Department is studying an arrangement under which the money would be transferred from South Korea to a U.S.-monitored account in a third country. Iran would apply for funds to go directly to a humanitarian organization, with each individual transaction being approved by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. None of the money would pass through the U.S. or Iranian financial systems.
But while Biden could claim credit for freeing the detainees, even the closely monitored release of funds would encounter strong political head winds, both at home and in Israel.
Israel’s security establishment has been bracing for an announcement of a U.S. deal with Iran since media accounts began
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military officers trade their military service and experience to foreign governments for cashcreating serious risks to our national security,” said Warren, who leads the Senate Armed Services subcommittee on personnel. “This system needs serious transparency and accountability.”
“It’s no surprise that foreign governments would wish to capitalize on the knowledge and expertise of retired U.S. military members, but it’s critical to our national security that we be judicious in how we allow other countries to leverage their skills and experience,” added Grassley, the senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee. “Unfortunately, we’ve seen that the
current safeguards aren’t sufficient.”
Among the other findings of The Post investigation: almost two-thirds of the foreign jobs taken by U.S. veterans have been in the Middle East and North Africa. The government’s approval for such posts is almost automatic, with the Pentagon and State Department granting authorization about 95 percent of the time.
Warren and other lawmakers have said they are especially bothered by the high approval rate. “That percentage strikes me as really troubling,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said in April during a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing on the issue. “It just seems to me like that is a symptom of something that is
wrong.”
Officials at the Pentagon and State Department have said that they jointly conduct a thorough review of all foreign employment requests and have wide latitude to deny any applications that “would adversely affect the foreign relations of the United States.”
At the hearing in April, however, lawyers representing the Defense Department and each branch of the armed forces said they were revisiting their policies and would report their findings to Congress in July. “We think we can improve,” said Sean Coffey, general counsel for the Navy. “We are looking at that.”
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Grazing removes plants that can harm growth of the vernal pool plants and reduces the height and amount of vegetation that allows for easier navigation for the lizards breeding grounds.
From now and through the month of July, over 1,000 sheep will graze around three different locations at Travis AFB.
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to emerge. Netanyahu, who encouraged Trump to pull out of the original accord in 2018 and warned that restoring the agreement could force Israel to act militarily against Iran, has repeated those warnings in recent days.
Referring to a recent phone call with Blinken, Netanyahu told his cabinet last week, “I reiterated our consistent position that returning to the nuclear agreement with Iran will not stop the Iranian nuclear program and will only enable Iran to channel funds to the terrorist organizations that it sponsors in the Middle East and around Israel’s borders.”
In private, however, the prime minister reportedly has downplayed the likely impact of the more limited discussions taking place in Oman. At a closed-door briefing for the Knesset’s foreign affairs and defense committee on
Tuesday, Netanyahu characterized that potential agreement as more palatable to Jerusalem than the original nuclear accord, saying it’s “not a nuclear deal, it’s a mini-deal,” according to reports in Hebrew-language media that cited participants in the meeting.
“We will be able to handle it,” Netanyahu reportedly said.
Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Herzog, in recent remarks to a Jewish group in Washington, said Israel will reserve its right to “freedom of action,” meaning to strike Iran if it senses an imminent threat. But he also offered praise for Washington’s efforts to negotiate with Tehran.
“As far as we’re concerned, diplomacy in and of itself, and such understandings, are not necessarily bad to the extent that they can help deescalate a situation,” Herzog said, according to the Times of Israel.
