MARCH 2, 2020 - U.S. Army Garrison Japan updated its workforce on the community's response to the coronavirus and answered questions during a town hall meeting here Feb. 25. "I want to make sure as we talk to our workforce and the people that we interact with in the community that we are dealing from a position of facts," Col. Thomas Matelski, commander of USAG Japan, told … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2020
Army Launches Enlisted Assignment Market for Select Career Fields
MARCH 2, 2020 - Armor, military intelligence and some quartermaster Soldiers will be the first to pilot a new assignment market system, as the Army looks into new ways to enhance the assignment process for enlisted personnel. The Assignment Satisfaction Key-Enlisted Marketplace pilot program will launch in June, providing Soldiers a full list of available positions for them … [Read more...]
Afghan, U.S., NATO Officials Call Declaration a Path for Peace
MARCH 1, 2020 - Under an agreement signed in Doha, Qatar, all foreign troops may be out of Afghanistan in 14 months, officials said in the Afghan capital of Kabul. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg all said today that any withdrawal would be conditions-based, and the Taliban would have to negotiate … [Read more...]