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...]

MARCH 4, 2024 — He had practiced it many times before, but this day in 2022 was different for Army astronaut Col. Frank Rubio as he walked to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This time he was going to space. “You realize this [spacecraft] has 300 tons of rocket fuel, and I’m about to get on it,” he said with a laugh. The good thing, he said, was … [Read more...]

MARCH 1, 2024 - No matter how much a combat system has been developed within a laboratory, or tested through virtual or simulated environments there will be unforeseen issues arise when that system is subjected to military operations in the extreme climactic conditions of arctic, tropical, or hot desert environments. This is why the U.S. Army conducts developmental testing … [Read more...]

MARCH 1, 2024 — Thousands of servicemembers from the United States, Thailand and partnering countries gathered to participate in the opening ceremonies of the 43rd Annual Cobra Gold exercise, which commenced Tuesday morning in Rayong province, Kingdom of Thailand, Feb. 27, 2024. Established in 1982 as a bilateral maritime exercise between the United States and Thailand, … [Read more...]