ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Army News Service, Nov. 6, 2015) -- In an Army Research Laboratory facility here called "The MIND Lab," a desktop computer was able to accurately determine what target image a Soldier was thinking about. MIND stands for "Mission Impact Through Neurotechnology Design," and Dr. Anthony Ries used technology in the lab to decode the Soldier's brain … [Read more...]
Soldiers Put Turbo in Mississippi Distribution Exercise
CAMP SHELBY, Miss. (Nov. 4, 2015) -- Fifty Soldiers, from the Fort Eustis, Virginia-based 689th Rapid Port Opening Element, or RPOE, wrapped up their latest weeklong Turbo Distribution 16-1 exercise Friday, in what participants said was arguably their most challenging and realistic exercise to date. Turbo Distribution exercises are designed to integrate Army and Air Force … [Read more...]
Academy Grad Preps for Second Spacewalk
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AFNS) - November 3, 2015 -- A 1995 Air Force Academy graduate and astronaut aboard the International Space Station is scheduled to make his second walk in space at 7:10 a.m. EST Nov. 6. If all goes according to plan, Kjell Lindgren and fellow astronaut Scott Kelly will spend six hours outside the ISS, floating more than 200 miles above the Earth, … [Read more...]
Louisiana National Guard Captain Honored with Soldier’s Medal for Heroic Rescue
November 2, 2015 - BATON ROUGE, La. – Louisiana National Guard Capt. Andrew Gremillion received the Soldier's Medal, the military's highest award for non-combat heroism, during an Oct. 30 ceremony at the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Baton Rouge. In February 2014, Gremillion realized that a woman was in extreme danger and immediately reacted to rescue and save a person … [Read more...]
New Mexico National Guard Airlifts Dinosaur Fossils
FARMINGTON, N.M. (Nov. 2, 2015) -- Aviators, infantrymen and transportation Soldiers, assigned to the New Mexico Army National Guard, assisted the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, or NMMNHS, with extracting fossils of two Pentaceratops dinosaur skulls from the badlands of New Mexico. An adult Pentaceratops skull and juvenile fossil remains were airlifted via … [Read more...]