EGLIN AFB, Fla. (NNS, 6/11/2013) -- The staff and students at the Naval School of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (NAVSCOLEOD) Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Division credit the improvements made during the past year as having significantly increased training realism at the school. Upgraded projects included robot training lanes, a structure to simulate night operations for … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2013
Science and Tech Skills are Increasingly Vital
WASHINGTON, June 11, 2013 – The Defense Department needs to be thinking now about how to best recruit a workforce skilled in science and technology, which will be increasingly vital to national security, a senior DOD official said here yesterday. Reginald Brothers, deputy assistant secretary of defense for research, told a conference aimed at spurring more young … [Read more...]
Doors Open at First AF Collocated Sexual Assault Victim Support Facility
6/11/2013 - ROYAL AIR FORCE LAKENHEATH, England (AFNS) -- A collocated Special Victims' Council and sexual assault response coordinator office began operations here June 3, marking an Air Force first and the arrival of a revolutionary Air Force pilot program, providing specialized legal assistance to victims of sexual assault throughout the United Kingdom. Housed in a … [Read more...]
Servicemembers Struggling to Save in Face of Defense Downsizing
6/11/2013, FORT WORTH, Texas - Despite a growing commitment to prepare for defense downsizing through frugal living, middle-class military families are finding it harder to sock away dollars for the future. The First Command Financial Behaviors Index® reveals that middle-class military families (senior NCOs and commissioned officers in pay grades E-6 and above with … [Read more...]
Working to Bring Home Missing Brothers and Sisters
NATICK, Mass. (June 10, 2013) -- He will tell you that he's not particularly noteworthy, but Jason Kaye certainly recognizes the importance of his organization's mission. Kaye serves as a Navy civilian with the Joint Prisoner of War, Missing in Action Accounting Command, or JPAC, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. JPAC seeks to account for every American service member … [Read more...]