WASHINGTON, June 26, 2013 - As part of its force restructuring due to the Budget Control Act of 2011, by the end of fiscal year 2017 the Army will reduce its number of brigade combat teams from 45 to 33, the Army’s chief of staff has announced. In addition, Army Gen. Ray Odierno told reporters at a Pentagon news conference, the Army will shrink its active component end … [Read more...]

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, June 24, 2013) -- Over the last 12 years, many Soldiers have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with wounds, some visible and some not, said a leader in Army Medicine. "The invisible wounds -- post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury -- are just as damaging as the visible ones. They impact the families as well as the Soldiers," … [Read more...]

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, June 24, 2013) -- This week, the military medical community was notified that a new antibiotic drug is now available to treat Soldiers who have life-threatening, multidrug resistant bacterial infections. Arbekacin is a new antibiotic treatment for multidrug resistant, or MDR, infections. Those types of infections may complicate wounds sustained … [Read more...]

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, June 24, 2013) -- By September, the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, Calif., will have switched its computer network from the ".mil" top-level-domain to the ".edu" top-level-domain. The effort, ongoing now since 2011, is expected to help improve the efficiency of the language learning process at the school house. A … [Read more...]

NATICK, Mass. (June 20, 2013) -- What it all comes down to is keeping Soldiers' minds on their missions in Afghanistan, rather than on their feet. That's how Ben Cooper views the development of the Hot Weather Mountain Combat Boot, or HWMCB, at Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, which began in spring 2011. Cooper thought it was so important that he … [Read more...]