APRIL 3, 2024 — Almost 31 years after conducting various missions and operations during the Battle of Mogadishu, retired Army Maj. Larry Moores received the third highest military decoration for valor in combat — the Silver Star Medal. Gen. Gary Brito, commanding general, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, presented Moores with the Silver Star during a ceremony in … [Read more...]

APRIL 2, 2024 - U.S. Army officials, in partnership with Abbott, announced today that the company’s i-STAT® TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) cartridge has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to be used with whole blood. The newly cleared device can run whole blood testing at the patient’s bedside, allowing clinicians to obtain lab quality results for … [Read more...]

APRIL 1, 2024 – Airborne logistics Soldiers here just completed airdrop testing of the Army’s newest Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles. Troops of the 151st Quartermaster Company, 189th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division Sustainment Brigade, put the vehicles through a series of Low Velocity Airdrop configurations. The M1093A2 FMTV is a fleet of … [Read more...]

MARCH 29, 2024 — Gen. Laura Richardson, U.S. Southern Command’s first female commander, has commanded at the tactical, operational and strategic level. She commanded an assault helicopter battalion in Iraq. She served in the White House, at the Capitol and Pentagon. Throughout her more than three decades in the Army, she’s earned awards such as the Distinguished Leadership … [Read more...]

MARCH 27, 2024 - It is vital that military equipment work wherever in the world American Soldiers need it, and extreme cold is a weather condition troops have had to contend with frequently in American history. From Korea to Afghanistan, the lives of American Soldiers have frequently depended on properly functioning equipment in inhospitably frigid environments. This fact … [Read more...]