WASHINGTON (Army News Service, May 29, 2015) - When the Army's chief of staff retires this August, he said one thing he will be leaving for his successor is the unfinished business of how big the Army will be and how it will be appropriated. "I thought by now we would have had that resolved," said Odierno, adding that uncertainty about the final size of the Army has brought … [Read more...]

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (May 29, 2015) - With vehicles that are equipped with a new high-bandwidth networking radio, Soldiers can move across the battlefield, rapidly exchanging mission-critical voice messages, images and video with their commanders. Using line-of-sight communications waveforms that are not dependent on satellites, mid-tier networking vehicular radios, … [Read more...]

TORII STATION, Okinawa (May 29, 2015) - Among the first special operators to commence the opening salvo against terrorists in Afghanistan, Oct. 19, 2001, were Green Berets, from the 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group, whose motto, "First in Asia," is particularly apt. Since then, these professional Soldiers have been consistently engaged in the war on terrorism in areas … [Read more...]

SPEARFISH, S.D. (May 29, 2015) - You might not expect a local female hair stylist or preschool teacher to be operating or fixing bulldozers, scrapers and dump trucks outside of their job, but for women serving in the South Dakota Army National Guard's 842nd Engineer Company, it is common. These female Soldiers are breaking the stereotypes of what it means to serve as a woman … [Read more...]

WEST POINT, N.Y. (May 27, 2015) - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff reversed the first-salute tradition for new officers during the Class of 2015's U.S. Military Academy commencement, May 23. Military tradition is that newly commissioned officers give a dollar to the noncommissioned officers, or NCOs, who render them their first salute. But today, Army Gen. Martin E. … [Read more...]