REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. (Sept. 30, 2013) - The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command has found a way to save the Army money while still providing capabilities by using low-cost targets during missile defense testing. Members of theU.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command, or USASMDC/ARSTRAT, Technical … [Read more...]

NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Sept. 26, 2013) -- When the Vietnam War was well underway, and U.S. combat involvement was still in early stages, helicopter pilots ferried the wounded from the battlefield. In 1963, the U.S. Army 57th Medical Detachment (Helicopter Ambulance) commander started using the radio call sign "Dustoff" for his medical evacuation chopper. The name … [Read more...]

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Sept. 26, 2013) -- This Sunday, the Army and the nation will, for the 77th time, turn their attention to mothers who have lost sons or daughters while fighting America's wars. The Congress first created "Gold Star Mother's Day" in 1936 to honor those women whose children were taken from them as a result of war. "The Gold Star Mothers, as well as … [Read more...]

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (Sept. 25, 2013) - Five U.S. Army Soldiers are the first to take part in a new counter-improvised explosive device training course designed by Combined Joint Task Force Paladin specifically for Female Engagement Team members. The five, all military intelligence analysts assigned to the 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, at Bagram Airfield, … [Read more...]

NATICK, Mass. (Sept. 23, 2013) - When it comes to combat rations packaging, Lauri Kline would like to put the Defense Department on something of a diet. Kline, project officer and packaging scientist for the Advanced Materials Engineering Team with the DOD Combat Feeding Directorate at the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center here, has been working on … [Read more...]