SEPTEMBER 28, 2022 – A combined arms live fire exercise, better known as a CALFEX, is a grueling, vigorous, multi-day event that prepares Soldiers for large-scale combat operations. The “Hound Battalion,” 3rd Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, the Army’s most modern armored battalion, conducted a company-level certification … [Read more...]

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022 — Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense teams from 12 NATO nations participated in Slovakia’s 10th Annual Exercise Toxic Valley Sept. 5-16. The Slovak Republic hosts the exercise to provide world-class training to members of the NATO alliance. The exercise, conducted at the CBRN Training and Testing Center Zemianske Kostol’any, gives … [Read more...]

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022 — Industry partners working with the Army and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency engineers will fly a pilotless UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter carrying up to 3,000 pounds on supply runs as part of its annual Project Convergence experiments this fall. In addition, the range of the tests will expand significantly across the Pacific. Lt. Gen. Scott … [Read more...]

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022 – One U.S. Army astronaut and doctor makes a house call on the International Space Station. Army Astronaut Lt. Col. (Dr.) Frank Rubio successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, aboard a Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft Sept. 21, for a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Following a three-hour journey, the crew made two … [Read more...]

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022 — Lt. Col. Frank Rubio came from humble beginnings, raised by a single teenage mother in southwest Miami. More than 30 years after he joined the Army, the UH-60 Black Hawk pilot will be making his first venture into space Sept. 21 when he launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station as a NASA astronaut. Rubio said his mom, an … [Read more...]