FEBRUARY 18, 2021 - At the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, 222 Soldiers from Fort Carson, Colorado, will deploy in the coming days to Los Angeles, California, to support a state-run, federally supported COVID-19 vaccination center there. U.S. Army North, the Joint Force Land Component Command of U.S. Northern Command, will oversee the military COVID-19 … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2021
Navy Destroyer Seizes Illicit Weapons Off Somalia
FEBRUARY 17, 2021 - The guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) seized illicit shipments of weapons and weapons components from two stateless dhows during a maritime security operation in international waters off the coast of Somalia, Feb. 11-12. Churchill’s Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS) team and embarked joint service Advanced Interdiction Team … [Read more...]
Anti-Drone Laser Weapon Undergoes Testing
FEBRUARY 17, 2021 - Throughout 2020, the 704th Test Group’s Operating Location-AA, part of the Directed Energy Combined Test Force, or DE CTF, focused much of its effort on the testing of weapons designed to prevent adversarial drone observation and assault. The latest system tested, the High Energy Laser Weapon System 2, also known as HELWS2 or H2, is a counter-Unmanned … [Read more...]
Female Air Force Defenders First to Get New Body Armor
FEBRUARY 17, 2021 - After years of wearing the standard tactical vest originally designed for a male body frame, female Airmen from the 377th Security Forces Group were among the first Air Force defenders to receive the new issue of female body armor starting January 2021. The new, better fitting body armor will be distributed to all female security forces members on the … [Read more...]
Ransomware: A Virtual Hostage Situation
FEBRARUY 17, 2021 – The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command’s Major Cybercrime Unit (MCU) is warning the Army community about an increase in ransomware attacks. According to Edward LaBarge, director of CID’s Major Cybercrime Unit, there was a rise in ransomware cyberattacks in 2020 and the trend is expected to continue this year. Ransomware is a type of malicious … [Read more...]