JULY 16, 2021 – Soldiers assigned to the 85th U.S. Army Reserve Support Command and 84th Training Division conducted a diagnostic Army Combat Fitness Test during their battle assembly weekend training, in Arlington Heights, Illinois, July 10-11, 2021. The ACFT, initially transitioned from the Army Physical Fitness Test in 2019, consists of six events: the three-repetition … [Read more...]
U.S. Army Deploys Tanks To Poland
JULY 15, 2021 - Logisticians and transporters from the 598th Transportation Brigade, Surface Deployment and Distribution Command and the 21st Theater Sustainment Command began offloading more than a thousand pieces of equipment at the port in Gdansk, Poland, July 5, 2021. The equipment belongs to 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division who are deploying from Fort … [Read more...]
Tunnel Discovery at Korean DMZ Was A Monumental Achievement
JULY 15, 2021 - Between the 1960s-1980s, North Korea dug tunnels under the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in an attempt to conduct a surprise invasion of South Korea from underground. The first tunnel was discovered in 1974 by a South Korean Army patrol that witnessed steam rising from the ground and heard underground explosions. Based on intelligence reports, Republic of Korea … [Read more...]
Autonomous Airdrop System Enables Operations When GPS Is Down
JULY 14, 2021 - Draper recently delivered advanced guidance, navigation and control technology to the U.S. Army that enables the Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) to operate in areas where signals from the Global Positioning System (GPS) network may be degraded or nonexistent. This new technology ensures that this critical autonomous resupply capability will be available … [Read more...]
Army Offers Helpful PCS Resources as COVID-19 Creates Delays
JULY 13, 2021 - The COVID-19 pandemic has put strains on many aspects of normality around the world, and the large numbers of service members completing a permanent-change-of-station, or PCS, move this summer are seeing delays in household goods shipments due to private-sector shortages in labor, equipment and supplies. To alleviate as much of the uncertainty as possible, … [Read more...]