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Through the Army Talent Alignment Process, officers now have more ownership over their careers and no longer need to wait for Army Human Resources Command to divvy out assignments. Using the Assignment Interactive Module 2.0 marketplace, the 10th Mountain Division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team out of Fort Polk, Louisiana, is successfully competing against the rest of the Army to fill most of their 51 billets.
Beneath the shadow of Mount Ascension, lying in the vast expanse of Montana's wilderness, a community of Soldiers joined a staff of 10 civilians to help preserve the outdoor land many veterans use to exercise, hike and enjoy.
The Army just conducted a test of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System in November and plans to conduct a third evaluation in July to inform a low-rate initial production decision by 2021.
The Army Corps of Engineers will be the first organization to test the new Army Contract Writing System in February, a top procurement official said Wednesday.
The military's top health officials testified before Congress Thursday on the ongoing transfer of healthcare systems to the Defense Health Agency.
The Army's advanced manufacturing push intends to cut production timelines and costs throughout the lifecycle of systems, said an Army acquisition officer.
Just a year ago, Christian Montijo was a different man. In fact, he was almost twice the man he is today. Overweight and realizing his unhealthy habits, the 28-year-old banker from Kissimmee, Fla., set a goal to transform himself. And, if he could, revive his dream of joining the Army.
Soldiers now have more color choices while wearing fleece caps -- but it's at their commander's discretion.
Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy invited a top lawmaker to Fort Belvoir Monday, to hear military families concerns and observe housing issues in person, ahead of this week's senate hearing.
Synthetic Training Environment partners are discussing dynamic occlusion and other STE challenges during the 2019 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference this week in Orlando, Florida.
The Army's top leaders updated lawmakers Tuesday on progress being made to fix problems seen in privatized military housing.
As the distribution rate of information around the globe continues to increase, the quantity of misleading information that is used to alter public perception and inherently disrupt a population's thought process is a significant concern, officials said at CyCon 2019.
Ernie Wensaut, a former Army machine gunner for the 1st Infantry Division, was born in a traditional Potawatomi tribal family home, on their reservation in Wisconsin.
Deployed Soldiers will get a taste of home this Thanksgiving after months of planning by logistics personnel to deliver tons of meat and fixings for the traditional meals.
As Congress passed another continuing resolution Thursday to keep the federal government open until Dec. 20, Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy said the lack of long-term funding is having a detrimental impact on operations, readiness, maintenance and modernization.
Lt. Col. Matt Johnston and Sgt. 1st Class Nicholas Nigro noticed a stark difference in the Afghan national defense forces this time around.
Spc. Avione Allgood missed a medal by centimeters in China at the Military World Games Oct. 25, but she has already qualified for the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team Trials.
Through the new Army Talent Alignment Process, the force is implementing a 21st-century approach to managing its personnel, said Maj. Gen. Joseph McGee. With the implementation of ATAP, the Army is also initiating the new Battalion Commander Assessment Program, or BCAP.
When his father deploys, 9-year-old Davidson Whetstone considers himself "man of the house" -- and he's using his experience to help other military families in a book he's written, and is illustrated by his Green Beret-father.
Army senior leaders engaged with cadets during the Cadet Command 2019 Senior Leader Development Conference at Howard University, Nov. 7.
More than 70,000 decks of playing cards depicting enemy apparatus such as tanks, rocket launchers and air defense systems are being distributed by the Army Training and Doctrine Command.
Three military spouses say they hope to change the world, through one act of kindness at a time.
Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy told West Point cadets Friday that resilience will be key to their success in life and that bouncing back will take courage, effort and a positive attitude.
Competing in a tough field that featured some of the best taekwondo competitors in the world, the U.S. Armed Forces Taekwondo Team walked away from the Military World Games without medals.
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley, Army Chief of Staff Gen. James C. McConville, and Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston were honored to induct Master Sgt. Matthew Williams into the Department of Defense's Hall of Heroes.
Williams received the Medal of Honor on Wednesday for his actions in 2008, which helped save the lives of four critically-wounded Soldiers and stopped the enemy from overrunning the team's position.
In the final competition of the World Military Games in China, USA's Judith Coyle finished the triathlon in 2:10:48 to win a gold medal Sunday in the women's senior division and propel her mixed senior team to a silver medal.
The Army is making improvements to the household goods, or HHG, process to help alleviate some of the stress attributed to a permanent change of station move.
Less than a week after receiving his new Integrated Head Protective System, or IHPS, the neck mandible saved the Soldier's life in Afghanistan.
Around 14,000 officers will participate in the new Army Talent Alignment Process, or ATAP, as the Army works to establish a 21st century talent management system, officials said.
The Army plans to test a new approach to talent management this fiscal year on how to select battalion commanders before possibly extending it to other ranks, said the Army's top officer.
The Department of Labor recently launched a website to help military spouses that possess an occupational license and need to transfer their credentials to another state.
The Army is pumping more funds into military housing, while finding ways to ease challenges when Soldiers and families head to a new duty station.
Army Futures Command, the Army's youngest command based out of Austin, Texas, has worked holistically in the last year with other Army commands, says their top general.
In addition, they've developed strategic partnerships with more than 1,500 companies -- from four-person start-ups to major corporations -- to hundreds of colleges and universities.
Eleven top-performing Soldiers from around the Army came together Tuesday to receive the Army's first-ever Expert Soldier Badges.
Social support and connection have a direct tie to readiness, as the Army looks for ways to build a sense of community among Soldiers and their families.
When Spc. David Chambers navigated his way in the dark woods of Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, with little more than a compass to guide him, he took on challenges that few of the 2019 Best Warrior competitors expected: completing physical and mental tests by themselves.
Army leaders in Europe revealed details Tuesday of a massive exercise that will send 20,000 U.S. Soldiers to the continent next spring to conduct force projection and readiness training across 10 countries.
The Army is now testing virtual-reality goggles that will allow Soldiers to rehearse combat missions that they are about to undertake.
After a personal look at Soldiers who make up today's Army, the service's new secretary delved deeper Monday into what the force needs to compete against near-peer threats.
As the Multi-Domain Task Force pilot program nears its end, the Army is now using lessons from it to establish three similar task forces.
Master Fitness Training instructors work tirelessly to coach Soldiers from across the Army in developing new ways to prepare Soldiers for combat, while in the process, helping increase readiness and lowering profiles up to 40%.
During the upcoming Military World Games in Wuhan, China, the U.S. Armed Forces women's basketball players will face taller, Olympic-caliber players, but will use speed, strength and shooting to offset any size disadvantage.
Thirty Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division recently tested new technologies in a video-game environment to provide feedback for the Next Generation Combat Vehicle Cross-Functional Team.
The Defense Logistics Agency Army National Account Manager team monitors material availability, Army pre-positioned stocks and readiness of Army weapons systems.
Sgt. 1st Class Elizabeth Calderon -- former drill sergeant, competitive bodybuilder, online fitness guru, and Master Fitness Trainer instructor at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, discusses resiliency, fitness, and the keys to success when taking the Army Combat Fitness Test.
The only aviation school of its kind in the Defense Department, the High-Altitude Army National Guard Aviation Training Site teaches about 350 students per year across the U.S. military as well as from foreign militaries, which account for about 20 percent of its enrollment.
While suicides among active-duty Soldiers reached their highest levels in a decade last year, Army leaders have already executed measures to bring those numbers down.
Joint cooperation will be crucial to maintaining U.S. forces' overmatch against near peers and potential adversaries, an Army general said Monday.
A keel-laying ceremony took place Monday for the first of a new class of Army watercraft, the Maneuver Support Vessel (Light).
As the Army prepares to potentially allocate $8.6 billion toward its six modernization priorities in fiscal year 2020, a senior Army leader said the service should recognize Soldiers' ongoing work in the Pacific.
Soldiers assigned to the 20th Engineer Brigade recently completed a nine-month deployment in which they supported operations in nine different countries in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility and saved the U.S. government close to $49 million in construction costs.
The tweets surface innocently in Twitter feeds, often passing as legit news or normal social media posts.
During the midterm elections last year, U.S. Cyber Command had three teams deployed forward in Europe working with partner nations to "hunt and track" adversaries attempting to disrupt U.S. democratic processes, its commander said Monday.
The Army's chief information officer rolled out a revised, holistic approach for data assets Monday, along with cyber's role within the new era of great-power competition.
The Army will achieve its fiscal year 2019 recruiting goal, exceeding the new Soldier target of 68,000 before the year's end, senior leaders announced Tuesday. Leaders credited the Army's overhauled recruiting and outreach efforts, to include Army Recruiting Command's initiative to increase presence in 22 U.S. metropolitan areas. The Army observed a 15 percent average increase in enlistments in these 22 cities, to include a rise in female and minority recruits.
A day after the 18th anniversary of 9/11, Acting Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy reflected on that fateful morning during his Senate confirmation hearing for the Army's highest position.
Capt. Lori Templeton -- a single mother, former educator, and Army officer currently serving as the the commander of 340th Brigade Support Battalion Headquarters Service Company/1st detachment with the California National Guard -- chose to look beyond her cancer prognosis. After being diagnosed with stage three cancer in 2016, she was forced to step back and find the balance that she so desperately needed in life.
Thirty young men and women from the Baltimore and Richmond areas took the Oath of Enlistment ceremony during a "Why We Serve" ceremony, Sept. 5. While readiness, modernization, and reform continue to be Army top priorities, "taking care of people" is Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. James C. McConville's No. 1 priority.
In just 1.5 seconds, Soldiers can bounce a communications link off a satellite 23,000 miles in space down to a warfighter halfway around the world. To better streamline these link requests from across the Defense Department, the Army officially stood up a task force in May to consolidate its satellite communication missions ahead of U.S. Space Command's activation last month.
The U.S. military must continue to integrate its warfighting capabilities across all domains while maintaining its forward presence in the Pacific region, senior leaders said at the 2019 Defense News Conference.
Taking care of others, and showing love and appreciation for others, is a core reason why retired Maj. Dennis "DJ" Skelton chose to stay in the Army. He continued to serve for 21 years, even after suffering grievous wounds during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004. Skelton shared his story to a large crowd of Soldiers, veterans, and Army civilians during a "Why We Serve" ceremony, Sept. 5.
Although the Army anticipates fielding its first Future Vertical Lift aircraft by 2030, modernizing and maintaining current helicopters is vitally important, a top Army aviator said Thursday.
Even amidst the shuffle of senior leadership within the Army, the service has seen the positive results of revamping its once sluggish acquisition process, said acting Army Secretary Ryan D. McCarthy.
The Army successfully tested its ability to redirect munitions in flight Aug. 28 in an experiment over the Mohave Desert involving an unmanned aircraft, smart sensors and artificial intelligence.
Four Army Reserve drill sergeants, while serving on a training mission at Fort McCoy, Wisc., were inadvertently called into action and saved a family from a burning vehicle.
In his first trip as the Army's chief of staff, Gen. James McConville touted the work of National Guard Soldiers, adding the Army plans to take advantage of the skillsets many citizen Soldiers possess.
During the onset of Operation Iraqi Freedom the Richardson family faced a
difficult dilemma. James and Laura Richardson, Army officers with promising careers, both received orders to deploy to Iraq.
Effective Sept. 9, Soldiers willing to reenlist in some of the Army's most in-demand careers have the chance to receive up to $81,000 in lump-sum bonuses -- the highest amount in more than five years, officials announced today.
Observed on Aug. 26, Women's Equality Day commemorates the adoption of the 19th Amendment in 1920, and two Army generals discussed how the suffrage movement paved the way for women to serve equally in the armed forces.
Army leaders met with industry partners Tuesday to focus on new ways to outfit Soldiers with lighter weight, wireless, and tech-compatible systems. They looked at revamping the Adaptive Squad Architecture. The restructure pinpoints Soldiers, at the individual and squad level, as the linchpin for ASA's future modernizations. It's one of the largest reconstructions conducted by PEO Soldier.
As a young girl, 1st Lt. Angie DiMattia saw softball as her way out of an impoverished life. It also fed her competitive side that later forged her into a chiseled bodybuilder and United States of America's Ms. Colorado.
The Army is advancing its ground-based precision navigation and timing, or PNT, technology to counter spoofing threats and improve operations in a multi-domain environment.
An Army cadet from Michigan State University recently set a Guinness World Record for the most chest-to-ground burpees completed in 12 hours, and he raised more than $7,800 for his nonprofit group for wounded veterans.
4,689. That's the number of burpees Bryan Abell, a 23-year-old ROTC cadet, accomplished July 7 in his hometown of Milford, Michigan. His original goal was 4,500, the minimum number required by Guinness to set the record, but Abell kept going when there was time to spare.
The Army's Patriot missile battalions are upgrading their fire-control computers, communications, radars and manning stations while adding longer-range missiles.
Luis Enrique Pinto Jr. joined the Army so he could do something different. But first, he had to do something extraordinary.
Speaking at a conference designed to uphold equal opportunity standards in the service, the Army's new chief of staff re-asserted his emphasis on prioritizing people -- Soldiers and civilians who comprise the Army's active-duty force, National Guard and Reserve units.
As soon as Shawn Campbell saw his name on a plaque next to a statue sunken 40 feet on the seafloor, the memories of Soldiers he had once served with flooded his mind.
From their office overlooking a bay of autonomous vehicles and robotics, members of a small Army task force are collaborating with academic partners to develop artificial intelligence systems for applications ranging from aircraft maintenance to talent management.
Before his flight left from Charlotte, Norvel Turner Jr. heard a fellow passenger yell for help. After running to catch the flight heading to Columbia, S.C., a 59-year-old man had collapsed in the aisle a few rows behind Turner.
When Matt Oldham saw the black SUV erupt in flames, he sprinted toward the fire. The Army specialist's heart raced as he approached the injured driver, whose vehicle had collided into the brick building across the street from the Dallas Holocaust Museum, where he worked as a security guard.
It took years for Capt. Chandler Smith and Lt. Col. Anthony Kurz to get to the CrossFit Games. At this level of competition, victory would not come easy, considering each workout would test the limits of their athletic ability and resolve.
More than 600 Soldiers with the 1-2 Stryker Brigade Combat team helped build readiness and strengthen partnerships in Thailand, the Philippines and Palau, in support of Pacific Pathways 19-1.
Being secretary of the Army was "a dream of a lifetime," said Mark T. Esper, during his farewell address given a day after swearing in as defense secretary.
As a rep of the Army Esports Team, Sgt. David Blose maintains his competitive edge with every game of Rainbow Six Siege. "I never thought I would play video games for the Army," Blose said.
Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Crosby and Sgt. Maj. Deondre' Long, the chief military science instructor at Marion Military Institute, as well as five others across the military earned NAACP's Roy Wilkins Renown Service Award during its annual convention in Detroit on Monday for their contributions to equality and human rights.
Army Col. Andrew Morgan wasn't even born when Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon, but his launch to the International Space Station Saturday was part of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11.
From what began as a dozen people whom Army leaders said formed a "beachhead" in downtown Austin, Texas, the Army Futures Command has considerably grown in the past year to over 24,000 around the world.
Eliminating sexual assault and changing the Army's culture on intervention starts with changing how leaders and Soldiers view the problem, said the Army's vice chief, during the fifth annual SHARP Program Improvement Forum, July 16.
The Army has enlisted the help of some of the brightest minds in the tech industry to test and evaluate crucial decision-making skills of tank commanders on the battlefield.
The Army plans to add even more firepower to its arsenal of medium tactical vehicles with 100-kilowatt to 250 kW lasers.
One World Terrain will allow Soldiers to conduct simulated training in accurate, realistic representations of theater environments.
With the growing threat of cyberattacks, the U.S. Army Field Artillery School has placed a renewed emphasis on learning manual methods of gunnery.
For Spc. Shayn Lindquist, an Army Reserve civil affairs soldier, beating brain tumor was only the first step on his 150-mile ruck march to raise money for pediatric cancer.
The Army's Special Forces or "Green Berets" are strengthening the Mongolian military through $23 million of funding to a mobile training team, a special operations commander said Wednesday morning.
Sport psychologists have long been a staple in the rosters of professional teams, and now the military is treating its future leaders like elite athletes. The Army plans to deploy performance enhancement experts to embed with cadets during this year's Cadet Summer Training at Fort Knox, Ky.
Soldiers are slated to fire at targets next year using a platoon of robotic combat vehicles they will control from the back of modified Bradley Fighting Vehicles.
Two major earthquakes that hit towns in the Mojave Desert of California July 4 and 5 left behind cracked and burning buildings, closed roads and burst water lines that prompted call-up of the National Guard to help distribute water and food.
The Army is now standing up short-range air defense units, known as SHORAD battalions, and offering a five-week pilot Stinger course for Soldiers in maneuver units.
Col. (Dr.) Andrew Morgan, NASA astronaut and Army emergency physician, is counting down until his launch into space for a nine-month mission aboard the International Space Station, July 20, 2019 --- the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
For the fourth year in a row, the regular Army's retention rate is over 80% after it recently hit its targeted goal five months early this year.
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