WASHINGTON (April 10, 2013) -- The Army agrees with the recently released DOD Inspector General report that found two Army organizations did not follow policies for tracking and configuring commercial mobile devices using the Android, Apple iOS, and Windows operating systems between October 2010 and May 2012. Both the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Army Engineer Research … [Read more...]
Funding for Mental Health Research Yielding Results
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, April 11, 2013) -- Research advances in mental health and care provided for Soldiers is light years ahead of what it was during the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the director of Army Medical Command told Congress. Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho, Army surgeon general, testified at a House Armed Services Military Personnel … [Read more...]
Army Researchers Try to Understand Vulnerabilities and Mitigate Injuries
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (April 10, 2013) -- Joint Trauma Analysis and Prevention of Injury in Combat program -- the name itself implies vast scale. Formed in July 2006, the program is a partnership among Defense Department intelligence, operational, medical, and materiel-development communities that collect, integrate and analyze injury and operational data from theater. … [Read more...]
In 2014 Soldiers to get 1% Raise and 3.9% Increase in BAH
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, April 10, 2013) -- Soldiers will see a one percent pay raise in 2014. Their untaxed paycheck will also benefit from a 3.9 percent increase in basic allowance for housing and a 3.4 percent increase in basic allowance for subsistence as well. The Army announced April 10 its fiscal year 2014 budget request, which amounts to $129.7 billion -- that's … [Read more...]
VA Improving Soldiers’ Disability Process and Benefits Timing
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (April 9, 2013) -- About 82 percent of the Army's major units are now meeting the Defense Department's Medical Evaluation Board goal of processing Soldiers' disability evaluations within 100 days, significantly reducing a backlog that sometimes took eight months or longer in recent years. The Army is making significant improvements in most Integrated … [Read more...]