ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (March 28, 2013) -- U.S. Army program managers earned Department of Defense acquisition awards recently for rapidly fielding a fire-resistant ghillie suit and an enhanced fuze rocket warhead. After two Soldiers from the Army's 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment burned to death when their camouflaged sniper gear caught on fire in Iraq, an urgent … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2013
Recruit About to do ‘Something Amazing’
3/28/2013 - JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO - LACKLAND, Texas (AFNS) -- When Airman Kaycee J. Franco thinks about women's history month, she'll think of it as the month that she began making her own personal piece of Air Force history -- receiving the Air Force Airman's Coin, graduating basic training and becoming an Airman. As Franco stood with her fellow trainees on the parade field … [Read more...]
Army Medicine Realigns Medical Readiness Divisions
FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas (March 26, 2013) -- In an effort to better support the Army Force Generation cycle and assist the active and Reserve components in improving medical readiness throughout the Army Force Generation cycle, the Commanding General of Army Medical Command, Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho, on July 8, 2012 directed the realignment of the regional medical readiness … [Read more...]
Navy Adds Military-Nutrition Environment Assessment Tool
MILLINGTON, Tenn. (NNS) -- The Navy has introduced an assessment tool that measures how work centers, commands and bases are doing with regard to supporting healthy eating, officials said March 27. "Navy, along with the rest of Department of Defense (DoD), has implemented the use of the Military Nutrition Environment Assessment Tool (m-NEAT) to assess food environments and … [Read more...]
Medal of Honor Recipients Honor Citizen-Heroes for Selfless Service
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, March 26, 2013) -- Twenty-one Medal of Honor recipients who put their lives on the line in extraordinary ways and circumstances paid tribute to four citizen-heroes who also went above and beyond for their fellow man. The first Medal of Honor was presented March 25, 1863, to Union Army Pvt. Jacob Parrott. On the 150th anniversary of that event, … [Read more...]