JUNE 27, 2017, PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) - As part of the Navy's transformation to a virtual service delivery model, the Navy College Program launched an update to the My Education portal June 27, significantly improving the Web Tuition Assistance approval process for Sailors taking off-duty education courses. "We've automated a major portion of the WebTA authorization process … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2017
Soldiers Assess, Adapt to the Rigors of Sustained Land Combat During Exercise Bayonet Focus
JUNE 27, 2017, YAKIMA TRAINING CENTER, Wash. - To prepare for the rigors of sustained land combat, more than 6,000 Soldiers from 22 units across the Army and National Guard conducted Exercise Bayonet Focus 17-03, from June 15-29, at both the Yakima Training Center and Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. The purpose of the exercise was to prepare the 2-2 Stryker Brigade … [Read more...]
ICBM Country: Ogden Air Logistics Complex Restoring Air Force’s Nuclear Launch Facilities
JUNE 27, 2017, HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (AFNS) - For more than 50 years, rural American pastures in the Great Plains have housed a key leg in the air, land and sea-based strategic deterrent triad – mission-ready Airmen controlling highly-survivable, nuclear-armed Minuteman III ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missiles). Depot-level maintenance of the boosters, launch … [Read more...]
F-35B Lightning II Arrives in Okinawa
June 27, 2017, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Base Camp Butler, Okinawa, Japan - Two F-35B Lightning II aircraft, belonging to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121, Marine Aircraft Group 12, flew from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni to Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa, Japan, June 26, to familiarize the VMFA-121 team with the airfield, marking the first arrival of … [Read more...]
Sniper XCTC Training Hits the Mark
JUNE 26, 2017, FORT MCCOY, Wis. - U.S. Army National Guard snipers are highly trained assets whose value and capabilities are often overlooked during large scale training events such as the National Guard's eXportable Combat Training Capability, also known as XCTC. Staff Sgt. Joe Bastian, a sniper observer/controller/trainer with the First Army's 1st Battalion, 335th … [Read more...]