JANUARY 4, 2021 - A small aircraft that is poised to make a big impact on military personnel recovery made a brief stop in the Dayton area on its way to St. Mary’s County, Maryland, where it will be used to test the Air Force Research Laboratory-developed Low Altitude Sensing Helmet system. The CubCrafters XCub aircraft was ferried from Yakima, Washington, to Lewis A. … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2021
U.S. Conducts Airstrikes on Al-Shabaab Compound
JANUARY 4, 2021 - In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted two airstrikes in Somalia on Jan. 1, 2021. Both strikes targeted al-Shabaab compounds in the vicinity of Qunyo Barrow, Somalia. Current assessments indicate the strikes killed three and wounded one al-Shabaab members and destroyed six and damaged one al-Shabaab compound … [Read more...]
Navy Modernizes Tuition Assistance Debt Payments
JANUARY 4, 2021 - The Navy has modernized the way Sailors, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen can pay back tuition assistance (TA) debts beginning in January 2021. The new program provides service members with the option to pay their debt on a mobile device or computer using a debit card, electronic funds transfer (EFT) or via a PayPal account. Credit cards will not be accepted … [Read more...]
Operation Warp Speed Delivers 14 Million Vaccine Doses by Year’s End
JANUARY 2, 2021 - As 2020 came to a close, Operation Warp Speed leaders looked back on their nearly eight-month old mission and tallied some of the milestones on the journey to get America past the COVID-19 pandemic. “I’m incredibly proud of what we have accomplished to date – something like this has never been done before,” said Operation Warp Speed Chief Operating Officer … [Read more...]
Steaming Into the New Year – 2021
JANUARY 1, 2021 - The bridge was dark and quiet when Lt. j.g. Grace Miller, from Atlanta, Georgia, the officer of the deck, signed the first deck log entry of the New Year aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) on January 1st 2021, but what was typically a routine task for Miller was instead a historic moment for Ralph Johnson and … [Read more...]