DECEMBER 31, 2022 - Effective Jan. 1, 2023, advanced academic degrees will be visible to promotion central selection boards considering major and lieutenant colonel ranks. The change will apply to all eligible Department of the Air Force officers and allow promotion board members to consider an officer’s acquisition of valued expertise as one of many whole person concept … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2022
Guardsman Wins CENTCOM Innovation Contest
DECEMBER 30, 2022 — Before deploying this summer with his Massachusetts Army National Guard unit, Sgt. Mickey Reeve had little idea he’d be on a world tour just a few months later talking about innovation in the military. However, that’s where he found himself after winning the U.S. Central Command’s Innovation Oasis contest this fall for his counter-unmanned aerial system … [Read more...]
Military Sealift Command Prepares For Operation Deep Freeze
DECEMBER 30, 2022 - While most of the United States shivers under frigid winter conditions, members of the Military Sealift Command Pacific (MSCPAC) team have been enjoying warm, sunny Southern California temperatures while overseeing cargo operations in Port Hueneme, Calif., of the loadout of supplies and equipment being loaded onto the Military Sealift Command charter ships … [Read more...]
MAI Course Pushes Marines to Their Limits
U.S. Marines with I Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, run during a martial arts instructor course physical training session at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Dec. 8, 2022. MAI courses certify Marines to instruct and monitor Marine Corps Martial Arts Program training and advance Marines in the program, distinguishing their levels of experience with … [Read more...]
Coast Guard Recruits Now Learn English in Basic Training
DECEMBER 30, 2022 - On August 16, 2022, five new recruits got off the bus at Training Center Cape May, N.J., to begin a pilot recruit training program for the Coast Guard – the English Language Training Program or ELTP. Since as early as 2019, at the Council on Recruit Basic Training (CORBT), the Coast Guard brought up the struggles that recruits that spoke English as a … [Read more...]