MARCH 31, 2023 - Yesterday evening, nine soldiers with the Army's 101st Combat Aviation Brigade were killed as a result of a training accident involving two Black Hawk helicopters. The soldiers and helicopters were involved in a planned training exercise near Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Now, an aviation safety team from Fort Rucker, Alabama — home of the U.S. Army Aviation … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2023
A Bond Unbroken
MARCH 30, 2023 — On a mild winter day in the heart of the district, crowds roam the national monuments taking in the beauty and the history. While some quickly move on, one group of men can’t help but stop at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a nearly 500-foot-long wall with the names of the lives lost, and take it all in. A member of Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 506th … [Read more...]
DOD Makes Headway on Cloud Computing
Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert J. Skinner, director of Defense information Systems Agency, testifies before the SSenate Armed Services Committee, subcommitee on cyber security, in Washington, D.C. March 29, 2023. (DoD photo by EJ Hersom) MARCH 30, 2023 - The Defense Department is moving ahead quickly on the adoption of cloud computing and implementation of a "zero trust" … [Read more...]
NIWC Pacific Building a Quantum Navy
MARCH 30, 2023 - Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific’s mission touches cyber, sea, space — and, since 2000, the subatomic realm. We make sense of the first three through programming rules and various fields of classical mechanics; the fourth is something else entirely. For one, classical physics can predict, with simple mathematics, how an object will move and … [Read more...]
East Coast Marines Compete for Gunners Trophy
U.S. Marines pose for a photo with the 2023 Marine Corps Marksmanship Competition East pistol match trophy at the Base Theater on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, March 17, 2023. The winners of this year’s pistol match were Marine Corps Security Forces Training Company Team 1. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Zeta Johnson) MARCH 30, 2023 - In an organization … [Read more...]