WASHINGTON, April 10, 2013 – A modification in the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System is expected to streamline personal records for better efficiency, the director of the Defense Manpower Data Center said here yesterday. In an interview with American Forces Press Service and the Pentagon Channel, Mary Dixon said information will now be entered into DEERS in … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2013
Navy Launches Career Tools Afloat Application
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- A new Career Tools Afloat (CTA) application is being installed aboard Navy surface and submarine platforms. The CTA provides a single gateway for Sailors to access selected career and personnel tools ashore and while operating in an environment disconnected from the Internet. These tools are Navy e-Learning (NeL) Afloat and its extensive catalog of … [Read more...]
VA Improving Soldiers’ Disability Process and Benefits Timing
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (April 9, 2013) -- About 82 percent of the Army's major units are now meeting the Defense Department's Medical Evaluation Board goal of processing Soldiers' disability evaluations within 100 days, significantly reducing a backlog that sometimes took eight months or longer in recent years. The Army is making significant improvements in most Integrated … [Read more...]
Training with ‘Recycled’ Improvised Explosive Devices
EDINBURGH, Ind. (April 9, 2013) -- Bottled water companies have reduced the amount of plastic in packaging. The fashion world has begun using items as obscure as egg shells to make clothing, and at Atterbury-Muscatatuck, recyclable materials are being turned into improvised explosive device training aids. The Counter improvised explosive device, or IED, Integration Cell, also … [Read more...]
Air Force Graduates First RPA Armament Course
4/10/2013 - SHEPPARD AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) -- Five Airmen from the 363rd Training Squadron graduated from the Air Force's first Remotely-Piloted Aircraft armament apprentice course during a graduation ceremony here April 8. Prior to the RPA armament apprentice course coming on-line, Airmen who were headed to an RPA armament assignment received one block of RPA … [Read more...]