DECEMBER 4, 2020 - Training and Doctrine Command’s Combined Arms Center kicked off the new decade prioritizing equipping the Army’s troop-level formations with new doctrine as the Army continues to modernize its formations and the way it fights. It’s a surge effort to equip unit leaders across warfighting disciplines with the tactics, techniques and procedures to help them … [Read more...]

DECEMBER 2, 2020 - A team of U.S. Army and academic researchers developed a novel design to automatically adjust aircraft rotor blade positions while already in-flight, a tactic that could improve turbine engine performance. Researchers from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, now known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory, Iowa State University and Brown … [Read more...]

DECEMBER 1, 2020 - The Army has started testing recruits for sickle cell trait, or SCT, to identify at-risk Soldiers, as the service plans to screen all Soldiers within a year, according to a U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command medical officer. Earlier this month, the screening push kicked off to both give Army leaders an idea of how SCT has impacted the ranks, and to … [Read more...]

NOVEMBER 30, 2020 - On April 17, curbside shopping opened at Robinson Barracks Commissary to protect high-risk customers from possible exposure to COVID-19. Since then, the concierge program has expanded to the Panzer Kaserne, Kelly and Patch Barracks commissaries, and added a delivery option for those quarantined both on and off post. Over the past six months, more than 115 … [Read more...]