February 29, 2016, by D.M. McCauley - All of the training in the world cannot prepare you for the real experience and pressure of performing your duty under fire. You can never be 100% sure of how you will react until you’re actually there in the moment. Bullets whiz past your head, fragmenting the brick wall behind you. A few feet away a member of your squad is hit by … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2016
Laser Weapons Development by 2023
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Feb. 29, 2016) - Responding to lawmakers' questions about how close the Army is to developing offensive and defensive directed-energy weapons, Mary J. Miller responded: "I believe we're very close." Miller, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for Research and Technology, and other experts testified before the House Armed Services Committee's … [Read more...]
Zero to Twenty-Plus: Marine Develops Program to Improve Pull-Ups
FEBRUARY 29, 2016, MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. - “I haven’t met someone yet who I haven’t been able to train to do a pull-up.” Major Misty Posey, the plans officer for Manpower Integration, developed a pull-up training program to help all Marines improve their pull-ups no matter their starting point, and says she has yet to find a Marine she has not been able to … [Read more...]
Navy Updates Maternity Leave Policy
FEBRUARY 29, 2016, WASHINGTON (NNS) - Following the Jan. 28 announcement by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter establishing a Department of Defense-wide 12-week maternity leave policy, the Navy released its guidance today in NAVADMIN 046/16. This new policy applies to all Sailors in the active duty component, and those Reserve component members serving on mobilization orders … [Read more...]
Welsh Presents Air Force pdate at Air Warfare Symposium 2016
FEBRUARY 26, 2016, ORLANDO, Florida (AFNS) - Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Mark A. Welsh III outlined Air Force operations from 2015, the service’s plan for 2016, and what is to come in the future at the Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium Feb. 25. “We moved 350,000 tons of cargo last year, roughly. We also moved about a million passengers. Our mobility … [Read more...]