DECEMBER 24, 2014, WASHINGTON (NNS) - The Navy, along with the other military branches, has announced a new website, HOMES.mil, that is dedicated to helping service members, Department of Defense (DoD) civilians and their families with home finding services. The new DoD website provides a vehicle for community housing landlords and property managers to create and update … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2014
Mobile App to Diagnose Head Injuries Scores FDA Clearance
WASHINGTON (Dec. 24, 2014) - The new Defense Automated Neurobehavioral Assessment is a mobile phone-based application designed to help medical providers identify cases of traumatic brain injury in almost any setting, which may help clinicians diagnose a patient in as little as five minutes. "This is what's important right now," said Lt. Col. Chessley Atchison, as he handled … [Read more...]
Soldiers to Get One-Percent Pay Raise in New Year
WASHINGTON (Dec. 24, 2014) - Most Soldiers will receive a one-percent increase in basic pay in January along with a 2.9-percent increase in their basic allowance for subsistence. The new rates for basic pay, basic allowance for housing, basic allowance for subsistence, and the cost of living allowance rates for the contiguous United States were announce today by DOD, and … [Read more...]
Army Revises Officer Development Pamphlet for World of ‘360-Degree Threats’
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Dec. 22, 2014) - Army Pamphlet 600-3, revised this month, emphasizes the importance of broadening assignments to Commissioned Officer Professional Development and Career Management. "It's a recognition of the fact that officers need a broader base of education," said Albert S. Eggerton, officer division deputy chief, Military Personnel … [Read more...]
Army Scientist Uses Diagnostic Tools to Track Ebola and Other Viruses
FORT DETRICK, Md. (Army News Service, Dec. 22, 2014) - An Army virologist using diagnostic tools found traces of Ebola virus in patient samples in West Africa -- a region thought to be untouched by the disease -- seven years before the largest, deadliest Ebola outbreak took the world by surprise in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The traces he found were antibodies, made … [Read more...]