MARCH 6, 2024 — 1st Cavalry Division Soldiers who normally take their Abrams tanks, STRYKER and Bradley combat vehicles to the field are testing a new virtual synthetic training environment indoors. “We’re helping the Army develop its Synthetic Training Environment; what we call STE,” said Brig. Gen. George C. Hackler, commander of the U.S. Army Operational Test … [Read more...]

MARCH 5, 2024 – The Launched Effects (LE) program recently achieved a key milestone with the first system flight tests of the Launched Effects-Medium Range (LE-MR) prototype system. The Program Executive Office Aviation’s (PEO Aviation) Project Manager, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (PM UAS) conducted the tests over an eight-day period during the middle of February. Aurora … [Read more...]

MARCH 5, 2024 — The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command hosted the biannual Army People Sync Conference from Feb. 26-29. This conference provided a forum for coordination across policy, strategy and operations with a focus on people concerns related to current and future readiness. U.S. Army senior leaders from across the force converged for large group presentations and … [Read more...]

MARCH 4, 2024 — The Command Sgt. Maj. Jack L. Clark Army Best Medic Competition is an annual grueling three-day test of operational medical skills, mental and physical fitness and overall endurance. The Army Best Medic Competition pushes Soldiers to their limits in an austere domain to test their tactical and technical operational medicine capabilities, required to bring the … [Read more...]

MARCH 4, 2024 — Braving subzero temperatures, about 9,000 Soldiers clad in white camouflage gathered in Alaska for a joint, multinational exercise. Soldiers engaged in 40 training events over two weeks to prepare for combat operations in the northernmost region on Earth. During the largest multinational training exercise in the Arctic to date, called Joint Pacific … [Read more...]