JULY 21, 2015, VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (NNS) - The unthinkable happens. Sailors lose their lives. Family members must pick up the pieces, then try to move on. They may not know it, but they are not alone. The Navy started the Gold Star Program to provide long-term support to surviving families of Sailors who pass while on active duty. Launched last year, the Navy Gold Star (NGS) … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2015
Professional Education Center Hosts First Class of International Students
JULY 21, 2015, CAMP ROBINSON, Ark. - The first International Military Students (IMS) to ever attend classes at PEC arrived just after the Independence Day weekend for a class that’s still underway. Four students from Bulgaria, Poland, and the Slovak Republic arrived to attend a six-week Integrated IT Training course. “We’re excited to finally see this … [Read more...]
Future Army Nanosatellites to Empower Soldiers
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. (July 21, 2015) - One Army project is making the future of satellite communications more responsive to Soldiers' needs. The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command's Nanosatellite Program, or SNaP, will be a small satellite communications, or SATCOM, constellation. This will allow communication across great distances … [Read more...]
Optimism Helped Vietnam Vet Survive as POW
JULY 21, 2015, ROYAL AIR FORCE MILDENHALL, England (AFNS) - When 2nd Lt. John "Spike" Nasmyth climbed into his F-4 Phantom II on Sept. 4, 1966, to fly a combat mission over Vietnam, he never foresaw that he'd be blown out of the sky by a surface-to-air missile. The last words he heard before his jet was transformed into a lump of crumpled, metal wreckage were from his "guy … [Read more...]
In Competition for Water Supremacy, RoboBoats Rule the Waves
JULY 21, 2015, ARLINGTON, Va. (NNS) - On July 7-12, 16 teams-from the United States and as far away as Indonesia, Taiwan and South Korea-hit the water with custom-built autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) at the eighth annual RoboBoat Competition, held in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The competition-sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and the Association for Unmanned … [Read more...]