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- abbreviation Department of Defense
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- noun Initialism of
Date ofDeath . - noun US, military Initialism of Department of Defense.
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For situations where the cognizant DoD Component Commander has a reasonable doubt about the continuation of essential services during crisis situations by the incumbent contractor, the Commander shall prepare a contingency plan for obtaining the essential service from alternate sources (military, DOD civilian, host-nation, other contractor (s)).
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DOMS established contact with all potential DoD response organizations, coordinating requests for DOD assistance.
Fact Sheet On Efforts In Response To Hurricane Floyd ITY National Archives 1999
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Sounds to me like our DOD is admitting that we are no longer strong militarily.
Think Progress » Military Seeks To Remedy Recruitment Dropoff with Dropouts 2005
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The Center for Strategic and International Studies released what it called a "DOD Workforce Cost Realism Assessment."
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Marjorie Censer 2011
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The Center for Strategic and International Studies released what it called a "DOD Workforce Cost Realism Assessment."
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Marjorie Censer 2011
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Outrageous that the DOD is taking a stand against this. datingjesus
Well, you wouldn’t THINK this would be controversial « Dating Jesus 2009
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Chalmers Johnson, who has written books on this subject, claims DOD is minimizing the empire.
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Rather than continuing to sell spent brass to GA Arms for comercial use, the DOD is NOW spending our money to shred it and sell the scrap to the Chinese.
Is ammunition and the position of covered by the 2nd Amendment the same as firearms? 2009
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As Cindy Williams, former director of the National Security division of the Congressional Budget Office and now a senior research scientist at MIT, points out in an as-yet unpublished paper for the Tobin Project, DOD is insulated from serious cuts by an array of impressive political advantages.
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I think a 50% reduction in DOD would be an excellent start.
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