WASHINGTON (March 19, 2015) - "The Army is in the process of conducting approximately 30 community listening sessions at all Army installations with military and civilian populations of 5,000 or more," Lt. Gen. David D. Halverson told lawmakers, March 17. Halverson, commander of the Army's Installation Management Command, provided oral and written testimony to the Senate … [Read more...]

FORT KNOX, Kentucky (March 18, 2014) - U.S. Army Human Resources Command, or HRC, will train a cadre of Soldiers, April 13-24, and dispatch them across the Army to spearhead the implementation of a new Non-commissioned Officer Evaluation Report, or NCOER, system scheduled for roll-out this autumn. "We're on the cusp of implementing a new NCOER for the U.S. Army," said HRC … [Read more...]

CAMP ZAMA, Japan (March 18, 2015) - The 4th annual earthquake functional exercise was conducted March 12 by U.S. Army Garrison Japan's Directorate of Emergency Services. The exercise was held in the Emergency Operations Center on the Camp Zama installation. Ransom Bush, emergency manager for USAG Japan, said every quarter the USAG Japan emergency management program (team … [Read more...]

NATICK, Mass. (March 17, 2015) - When Soldiers rip open meals, ready-to-eat, also known as MRE, in a combat zone, most people probably are thinking more about flavor and filling their stomachs than about the nutrition. However, that does not mean nutrition is not important. The new online combat rations database, or ComRaD, formally launched earlier this month by the … [Read more...]

NATICK, Mass. (March 17, 2015) - Call it good chemistry. Researchers from the Army and Harvard Medical School are collaborating on a Department of Defense-funded study to identify chemical biomarkers that could differentiate between post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and mild traumatic brain injury, also known as mTBI. The study, which began five years ago with a … [Read more...]