JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AFNS) - August 25, 2015 -- A 16-foot wooden table stretches between aircrew lockers and cabinets. A red toolbox sits at one end of the table. Helmets, oxygen masks and parachutes are within sight. The room is temporarily housing members with 374th Operations Support Squadron aircrew flight equipment for the duration of Red Flag-Alaska. … [Read more...]
Army Sees Challenges Ahead to Recruiting Future Soldiers
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Aug. 25, 2015) -- This fiscal year the Army will make its mission of 59,000 active-duty accessions who enter basic combat training, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Snow said. However, there will be about a 2,000-person shortage in the Army Reserve accessions this fiscal year, with the mission being 17,300, said Snow, who serves as commander of U.S. Army … [Read more...]
Examining Lessons from Hurricane Katrina 10 Years Later
ARLINGTON, Va. - August 24, 2015 -- Hurricane Katrina, energized over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico in late August 2005, warranted an unprecedented response by the National Guard. Even as it dissipated upon landfall, the cyclone would transform into a natural disaster not seen in modern American history. The scope and ferocity of the storm, which moved in a … [Read more...]
New Parent Support Program Helps Army Families Navigate Trials of Parenthood
FORT MEADE, Md. (Aug. 24, 2015) -- Most parents, young or old, new or experienced, recall them with a haze of exhaustion-induced nostalgia: the precious days, weeks and months after they brought home that fragile, squalling, mysterious being known as a newborn. But in between the snuggles and the tiny fingers and the magic of first smiles, there are countless diaper changes … [Read more...]
Reapers, Predators on the Prowl in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, AFGHANISTAN (AFNS) August 24, 2015 -- (Editor’s Note: The last name of certain Airmen are withheld in accordance with operational security requirements) Airmen assigned to the 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron provide world-class close air support and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in the Afghanistan area of operations. They … [Read more...]