ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Army News Service, June 27, 2014) - Napoleon Bonaparte once said that "the secret of war lies in the communications." This is as true today as it was two centuries ago. The Army, along with its sister services, allies and first responders from across the country tested those lines of communications during a month-long Joint Users … [Read more...]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (June 24, 2014) - As U.S. units prepare to depart Afghanistan, military leaders must determine whether to send their excess munitions home or if it is safer and/or more cost effective to destroy them in country. The Joint Munitions Disposal-Afghanistan, or JMD-A, team from the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, supports those units by … [Read more...]

FORT EUSTIS, Va. (June 24, 2014) - Mobile devices have created new opportunities for the Army to deliver training and education materials to Soldiers around the world. Now the Army is looking for ways to harness technology to make these materials more accessible. The use of mobile devices for distributed learning was a topic of discussion at the Training and Education 2025 … [Read more...]

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, June 23, 2014) - Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh signed a directive authorizing more opportunities for women to serve in a wider range of roles within the Army. This authorization results in the opening of about 33,000 positions in units that were once closed to women, said Col. Linda Sheimo, chief of the Command Programs and Policy … [Read more...]

FORT EUSTIS, Va. (June 23, 2014) - The Army is evolving its current Integrated Training Environment into a single synthetic training environment that combines constructive, gaming and virtual systems to provide challenging exercises efficiently at the point of need. Army officials discussed the Future Holistic Training Environment -- Live/Synthetic at the Training and … [Read more...]