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	Richard Myers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		General Richard Bowman Myers (born March 1, 1942) of the United States Air Force is a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, America's highest ranking military officer.
		General Myers became the fifteenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on October 1, 2001.
		General Myers is a command pilot with more than 4,100 flying hours in the T-33, C-37, C-21, F-4, F-15 and F-16, including 600 combat hours in the F-4.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Myers (551 words)

	CBSNews.com Who's Who Person
		General Richard B. Myers was appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in October 2000 by President George W. Bush, making him the nation’s highest ranking military officer and the first Air Force officer to chair the joint chiefs in nearly 20 years.
		Myers was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1942 and grew up in Merriam, Kan. At Kansas State University he joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) of the Air Force and in 1965 received his bachelor's in mechanical engineering.
		Myers is a four-star general who began his military career as a fighter pilot, has a wide-ranging background that includes stints as head of the U.S. Space Command, commander of U.S. forces in Japan and commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific.
	www.cbsnews.com /elements/2003/03/19/iraq/whoswho544679_0_3_person.shtml (382 words)

	Kansas State Collegian: Gen. Richard Myers returns to alma mater 10/20/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Richard B. Myers, 1965 graduate who has served as the chief military adviser to the president and on the National Security Council since October 2001, attended Saturday's football game against Colorado.
		Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks to the K-State ROTC at the Alumni Center Friday afternoon shortly after arriving in Manhattan for the weekend.
		Myers said he was especially influenced by his ROTC leader, Lee Ruggles.
	www.spub.ksu.edu:16080 /stories/102003/new_myers.shtml (366 words)

	Richard Myers -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		General Myers became the fifteenth Chairman of the (The executive agency that advises the President on military questions; composed of the chiefs of the Army and Navy and Air Force and the Commandant of the Marine Corps) Joint Chiefs of Staff on October 1, 2001.
		General Myers was born in (A city of northeast Kansas on the Missouri River adjacent to Kansas City, Missouri) Kansas City, (A midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union) Missouri.
		Prior to assuming that position, he was Commander, Pacific Air Forces, (additional info and facts about Hickam Air Force Base) Hickam Air Force Base, (A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands) Hawaii, from July 1997 to July 1998.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/richard_myers.htm (390 words)

	Yorkshire CND - Myers is Joint Chiefs Pick - 24/8/01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Air Force Gen. Howell Estes recalled that Myers as a young officer noticed that a blue carpet to be used for a ceremony was badly stained and spray-painted it the same hue.
		Myers, 59, has logged considerable time in the long halls of the Pentagon and near the top of the military hierarchy honing that savvy.
		With Myers solidly in the camp of those who argue the primacy of developing space-based intelligence and missile defense technologies, the battle is shaping against military leaders who fear that such a focus will drain money from the traditional mission of the military.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /yspace/articles/myers.htm (1123 words)

	The Emperor's New Clothes
		MYERS: First of all, I think as some of you know that have been to the Pentagon, that the fire is out, that there are some areas that are water-damaged.
		MYERS: Senator, this is an issue a little bit outside the military's lane, in the sense that it's a policy and a political decision.
		MYERS: I think we can state today that for us to carry out, for the Armed Forces of the United States to carry out their missions around the world, that we cannot do that without the Reserve component, both the Reserve forces and the National Guard forces.
	www.emperors-clothes.com /9-11backups/mycon.htm (17903 words)

	Gen. Richard B. Myers: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Myers said he believes the American way of life is at stake, and that terrorists see the freedoms Americans enjoy as a threat to them.
		Myers asked the group to contemplate the effect the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, had on America, and then asked them what the effect would be if terrorists got weapons of mass destruction.
		Myers said the United States is in discussions with South Korean officials on the right number and positions of U.S. forces in Korea.
	www.dcmilitary.com /army/stripe/8_42/commentary/25902-1.html (927 words)

	Soldiers Online Briefings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		AIR Force Gen. Richard B. Myers became the 15th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Sept. 30, succeeding GEN Henry H. Shelton as the president's top military adviser.
		Bush called Myers, who was vice chairman from March 2000 until his appointment as chairman, an officer "of steady resolve and determined leadership" who "understands that the strengths of America's armed forces are our people and our technological superiority.
		Myers was a fighter pilot in Vietnam, is a former commander of U.S. Space Command and was the assistant to former JCS chairman GEN John Shalikashvili.
	www.army.mil /Soldiers/nov2001/news/myers.html (205 words)

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		Myers noted that three soldiers were killed the day he landed in Iraq on the way to India.
		Myers said he was in India to discuss continuing U.S.-Indian military cooperation, and was headed to Pakistan later Tuesday.
		Myers said 34 countries have sent ground troops to Iraq or intend to, and there are some 2,500 foreign troops other than Americans in Afghanistan.
	www.airforcetimes.com /print.php?f=1-292925-2061010.php (555 words)

	USAREUR Public Affairs News Release
		Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talks to soldiers during his visit to Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo Sept. 17.
		Myers is meeting with American troops in the region and speaking with leaders.
		Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, listens as a soldier from Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo asks a question during a town hall meeting Sept. 17.
	www.hqusareur.army.mil /htmlinks/Press_Releases/2003/SEPT2003/19Sept2003-01.htm (660 words)

	Myers challenges editors to tell full story in war coverage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Myers told the editors that he reads far more about the problems of servicemembers’ equipment and the latest insurgent attack than about “the thousands of amazing things our troops are accomplishing.” This concerns him, he said, because American resolve is key to success.
		Myers said this was the reason he and other Defense Department leaders pushed for the media “embed” program in Iraq, in which reporters traveled with military units in the war zone.
		Myers challenged the newspaper editors to ensure the American people understand the hundreds of ways their sons and daughters are improving lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.
	www.perspicacityonline.com /Articles/2005/04/Media050415.htm (762 words)

	Bush Pays Tribute to Retiring Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
		Friday, September 30, 2005; 12:45 PM President Bush paid tribute today to Gen. Richard B. Myers, the retiring chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the military's public face of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
		In an outdoor ceremony at Ft. Myer, in Arlington, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, 59, was sworn in to succeed Myers.
		Myers, a fighter pilot in Vietnam, told the gathering that "the stakes in the war on terrorism simply couldn't be higher.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/30/AR2005093000846_pf.html (407 words)

	Myers Touts Afghanistan's Economic, Governmental Progress
		Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, answers a question during a press conference on the flight line at Bagram air base, Afghanistan Dec. 18.
		Myers is standing in front of an Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II.
		The fact that it is happening at all is proof of the progress made in the country since the fall of the Taliban and the rout of al Qaeda.
	nyjtimes.com /cover/12-22-03/AfghanProgress.htm (541 words)

	Gen. Myers Says Iraqi Political Success Tied to Security Success - US Department of State
		Currently, Myers said, there are 35 military and security force operations being conducted in Iraq; five of those operations are being handled entirely by Iraqi forces with no coalition support, although there is some support for the other 30 operations.
		Myers said the insurgents are "not going to be successful." The insurgents kill and maim innocent civilians and foreign businessmen, and post their attacks on regional television and on their websites, he said. "These folks are savages, mass murderers."
		Myers said the number of insurgent attacks has fallen by 25 percent from the highs of November 2004, but the lethality has increased.
	usinfo.state.gov /is/Archive/2005/Jun/01-702026.html?chanlid=is (578 words)

	Richard B. Myers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		General Richard B. Myers, chief of Space Command, states: “The American military is built to dominate all phases and mediums of combat.
		Myers is acting Chairman of the US military during the 9/11 crisis because Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Henry Shelton is flying in a plane across the Atlantic.
		ABC News, 9/11/02] Myers sees the television in an outer office of Senator Max Cleland (D), but he says, “They thought it was a small plane or something like that,” so he goes ahead and meets with Cleland.
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=richard_b._myers (6069 words)

	NPR : Richard Myers, National Press Club
		Richard B. Myers is the first Air Force officer to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff in nearly 20 years.
		Myers was born in 1942 in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in Merriam, Kansas.
		President Clinton appointed Myers vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs, a post he held from March 2000 until President Bush picked him to succeed Army Gen. Hugh Shelton as chairman in September 2001.
	www.npr.org /programs/npc/2002/020913.rmyers.html (363 words)

	Gen. Richard B. Myers Returns to Civilian Life - New York Times
		General Myers' expertise also swayed debate over rules of engagement for military operations, for shaping command structures across the armed services and in a number of key personnel decisions.
		On the deployment of active-duty troops on American soil, General Myers treaded carefully around the idea of expanding the military's role in domestic disasters, such as hurricane relief, saying "there are schemes you could think of other than Federal" plans, that would involve closer coordination among states.
		With 170,000 American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, General Myers rejects critics's complaints that he is leaving his successor with a force overtaxed and doubting its mission.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/10/02/politics/03myers.web.html?ex=1285905600&en=1fcd4bbdd2c269c6&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (760 words)

	America's Top Military Leader Visits Warsaw to Discuss Global Security - Warsaw Poland
		Myers used the occasion to thank the Polish government and military for their contributions to the global war on terror.
		Myers said Poland’s leadership of the Multinational Division in south central Iraq is a “great asset” not only for the coalition, but for the Iraqi people.
		Myers also met the Polish minister of defense and laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
	usembassy.state.gov /poland/myers.html (417 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Richard B. Myers, whose four-year term as JCS chairman ends next month, is reportedly planning to settle in Kansas to teach at the university level.
		Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the National Press Club that if something is a war "then you think of people in uniform as being the solution." Myers said that while the military may be in the forefront now the long-term solution is more diplomatic, economic and political.
		Richard B. Myers yesterday condemned as "absolutely irresponsible" an Amnesty International report that compared prisoner treatment at Guantanamo Bay to the Soviet gulag, adding that 100 out of 68,000 detainees held in the war against terrorism were abused.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=richardmyers (5407 words)

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		Hours before Myers and his bodyguards arrived at the Defense Ministry, President Alvaro Uribe bluntly told reporters at the ministry that military commanders’ jobs were at risk if they did not aggressively prosecute the war against the rebels.
		Myers refused to speak to reporters after meeting with Colombia’s defense minister Monday.
		Myers is in Colombia to show support for Uribe and to see the results of a U.S.-financed initiative to fumigate cocaine-producing crops controlled by rebels and their paramilitary foes.
	www.marinetimes.com /print.php?f=1-292925-2123539.php (413 words)

	NEWSMAKER PROFILE / Gen. Richard B. Myers / Low-key, loyal, and an advocate of space-defenses
		What Myers does have is a resume that makes him seem ideally groomed to serve as this president's top military adviser.
		Richard Bowman Myers was born on March 1, 1942, in Kansas City, Mo., the son of a hardware store owner.
		Education: B.S. in mechanical engineering, Kansas State University, 1965; master's degree in business administration, Auburn University, 1977; also attended the Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, 1991.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/08/25/MN86616.DTL (659 words)

	Army Leadership Chain > Myers @ ACA J.R.O.T.C.
		RICHARD B. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
		As the Vice Chairman from March 2000 to September 2001, Myers served as the Chairman of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council, Vice Chairman of the Defense Acquisition Board, and as a member of the National Security Council Deputies Committee and the Nuclear Weapons Council.
		From August 1998 to February 2000, Myers was Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Space Command; Commander, Air Force Space Command; and Department of Defense manager, space transportation system contingency support at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.
	www.austin.cps.k12.il.us /jrotc/myers.htm (394 words)

	Senator Carl Levin: News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Committee on Armed Services Hearing on the Nomination of General Richard B. Myers, USAF for Appointment as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
		General Myers is the first Vice Chairman to be nominated as Chairman.
		Myers, we welcome you and thank you for your service to the nation.
	levin.senate.gov /newsroom/release.cfm?id=211358 (738 words)

	AEF - General Richard B. Myers - 11/98
		Myers: This audience is pretty well informed on that issue, but the treaty doesn't hurt us in terms of developing for these kinds of capabilities.
		Myers: I don't have a specific view other than that is exactly what we need to be trying to do.
		Myers: That is an increasing problem because there is more and more things in space.
	www.aef.org /pub/myers.asp (5336 words)

	North Dallas Chamber of Commerce - Luncheon With General Richard B. Myers
		DALLAS, October 8, 2004 - General Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will be the keynote speaker at a October 29 luncheon hosted by the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce.
		Registration is $40 for active duty and retired military and reservists, $50 for chamber members and guests of cooperating organizations, and $75 for non-members.
		In his capacity as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Myers serves as the principal military advisor to the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council.
	www.ndcc.org /news/myers_release.html (340 words)

	Senator Carl Levin: News Release
		The Committee meets this morning to receive testimony from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers on the posture of the U.S. Armed Forces and on the President's proposed defense program for fiscal years 2003 to 2007.
		General Myers testified at his confirmation hearing in September that "this whole issue of homeland defense or homeland security needs a lot more thought." The committee looks forward to specifics on Secretary Rumsfeld's and General Myers' thinking on this important mission.
		We are determined to preserve a high quality of life for our forces and their families, sustain readiness, and transform the armed forces to meet the threats and challenges of tomorrow.
	www.senate.gov /~levin/newsroom/release.cfm?id=210491 (930 words)

	AllRefer.com - Richard Bowman Myers (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Richard Bowman Myers 1942–, American Air Force general, b.
		Kansas City, Mo. He studied at Kansas State Univ., graduating and joining the Air Force in 1965; he later attended Auburn Univ. (M.A., 1977), the Air Command and Staff College, and U.S. Army War College.
		Myers was a fighter pilot and wing commander during the Vietnam War.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MyersRiB.html (242 words)

	Gen. Richard B. Myers comments during a Pentagon press briefing. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Richard B. Myers comments during a Pentagon press briefing.
		Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers, U.S. Air Force, comments during a Pentagon press briefing about the process followed by the Base Realignment and Closing Commission on May 12, 2005.
		Myers, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and representatives of each of the service chiefs thanked members of the commission for making the difficult decisions inherent in the process.
	www.dod.gov /photos/May2005/050512-D-9880W-039.html (87 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Myers is meeting with Argentine officials on the military-to-military relationship between the United States and Argentina.
		Eduardo Dias da Costa Villa Boas, the commander of army forces in the region, Myers was struck by the similarity of tactics the coalition uses in Afghanistan and tactics the Brazilian government is using in this far-flung region of the country.
		Myers told the students that if they don't think the war on terror is an important endeavor, they need to "do more research." The issue with terrorism is fear, he said.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=genmyers (3394 words)

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