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Gates talks accountability to Air Force

Accountability starts at the top, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a Colorado gathering of those responsible for U.S. intercontinental nuclear weapons.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Gates makes recommendations for Air Force

In the wake of a U.S. Air Force shakeup, Defense Secretary Robert Gates recommended that Michael Donley be nominated to serve as secretary of the Air Force.

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Gates nominates two to top Air Force posts

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has sent his nominees for the top civilian and military Air Force leaders to U.S. President George Bush, the Pentagon said.

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Gates ready to name new Air Force chief

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to name Michael Donley to replace the Air Force secretary forced to resign, Pentagon officials said Friday.

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Top Air Force leaders asked to resign

The top civilian and military leaders of the U.S. Air Force were asked to resign Thursday over the branch's handling of nuclear weapons, officials said.

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Defense probing shipment mix-up to Taiwan

The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency mistakenly shipped non-nuclear nose cone fuses to Taiwan instead of the requested helicopter batteries, the Pentagon said.

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USAF: No home for Cyber Command till Dec.

The U.S. Air Force says it will not decide the permanent location of the headquarters of its new Cyber Command until the end of the year.

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BMD Watch: S. Korea plans BMD exercises

The Navy will conduct regular missile exercises to prepare for threats posed by North Korean ballistic missiles like the Scud and Rodong., the Chosun Ilbo reported Friday

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USAF: No timeline to pick cyber command HQ

The Air Force secretary says he has no timeline for making a decision on where the new U.S. cyber-space military command will be based.

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Defense probing shipment mix-up to Taiwan Mar 25, 2008

Michael W. Wynne (born September 4, 1944) is an American business executive and was the 21st United States Secretary of the Air Force. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates asked for and received his resignation (and that of Chief of Staff T. Michael Moseley) on June 5, 2008, in the wake of the 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident and the mistaken shipment of Minuteman III parts to Taiwan in 2006, followed by an investigation by and a critical report from Admiral Kirkland H. Donald regarding the Minuteman incident.

Michael B. Donley, Department of Defense Director of Administration and Management, was nominated to replace Wynne by President George W. Bush on June 9, 2008.

Wynne was born in Clearwater, Florida, and raised in Melbourne, Florida.

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