WASHINGTON, June 4, 2015 - Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work today promised transparency in the Defense Department’s comprehensive review of its laboratory procedures, processes, and protocols associated with inactivating spore-forming anthrax. Speaking with Pentagon reporters, Work emphasized that public safety is the department’s top concern, and he provided … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2015
BALTOPS 2015 to Kick Off June 5
JUNE 4, 2015, NAPLES, Italy (NNS) - Seventeen NATO and partner nations will participate in the 43rd iteration of the multinational maritime exercise BALTOPS 2015 in Poland, Sweden, Germany, and throughout the Baltic Sea, June 5-20. BALTOPS is an annually reoccurring multinational exercise designed to enhance flexibility and interoperability, as well as demonstrate resolve of … [Read more...]
Broadening: Building Individual Career Paths to Leadership in Army 2025
FORT KNOX, Ky. (June 4, 2015) - Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-3, published in 2014, provides Soldiers of all ranks a new perspective and guiding light for building career paths to leadership in the Army of 2025. The emphasis for re-shaping the Army in the years ahead will focus on growing agile, flexible and widely experienced leaders at all levels and across all … [Read more...]
Chew On This – Oral Cancer a Continual Concern
JUNE 4, 2015, BREMERTON, Wash. (NNS) - The use of smokeless tobacco has become - a chew at a time - one of the leading causes of statistics in the military. With Navy Medicine's designated theme for June focusing on 'Men's Health,' Naval Hospital Bremerton's Tobacco Cessation Coordinator and Oral Surgery department are trying to lessen the associated impact for those who … [Read more...]
Army to Introduce New Command Post Wireless Capability
FORT BLISS, Texas (June 4, 2015) - During combat operations, units often change base locations to outmaneuver the enemy or avoid attack, requiring the entire command post to be moved, or jumped. By going wireless, command posts not only shed cumbersome cabling, but network set up and tear down times are cut from hours to minutes, making those jumps easier and faster. "Wi-Fi … [Read more...]