MARCH 21, 2016, MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. (AFNS) - Two teams of Air Command and Staff College students took top honors at the Atlantic Council Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge in Washington, D.C., on March 11-12. The annual event is an interactive learning experience and competition that puts students in a mock National Security Council environment to analyze how the U.S. … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2016
‘Be That Shining Light,’ Vice Chief Urges Students
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, March 21, 2016) - "How do you empower unmotivated people?" asked a university student. "You highlighted one of the great leadership challenges," Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Daniel B. Allyn said to her, noting that the hardest people to empower or inspire are those of one's peer group. Allyn spoke to university students at the … [Read more...]
Murphy: Soldier for Life Program, Giving Back Values
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Army News Service, March 21, 2016) - Readiness is the Army's No. 1 priority say both the Army's chief of staff and acting secretary -- and "there is no other No. 1." But if there's a front runner for the No. 2 priority, at least for the acting secretary, it would have to be the Army's Soldier for Life Program, and the commitment the Army has to prepare for … [Read more...]
Army Researchers Explore Future Rotorcraft Technologies
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (March 18, 2016) - The U.S. Army is moving ahead with research on potential new component-level technologies for future rotorcraft. A team from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory completed the first-ever live-fire test of a rotor blade with individual blade control technology in mid-January. Researchers fired three shots representative of … [Read more...]
Sore, Tired, Yet Driven: Marine Ruckers Nearing 770-Mile Goal
MARCH 18, 2016, FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Maryland - It’s Thursday, and you’ve been taking turns marching miles and miles for days, through Florida, Georgia, and now South Carolina. You’re exhausted and dealing with blisters, bruised legs, strained muscles, hip issues and neck and shoulder aches. But that’s what happens when you signed up to make a 770-mile trek in 11 days. … [Read more...]