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Last week, three former U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan and four former U.S. ambassadors to Kabul, along with other former senior officials, called on the administration to consider relaxing policies that froze the Afghan government s foreign assets and cut off U.S. financial assistance that, along with other donor funding, once accounted for three-quarters of that nation s revenue.
Kathleen Ho, the deputy director of environmental health for Hawaii’s Department of Health, said samples sent to a Hawaii lab showed there were no contaminants in the water up to five parts per million. But that doesn’t mean there weren’t contaminants in the water, she said.
The vessel is named in honor of Frank E. Petersen Jr., a three-star general who became the first Black aviator, first Black general and first Black base commander in the Marine Corps. Petersen flew more than 350 combat missions and more than 4,000 military aircraft hours during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.