JANUARY 9, 2026 - The U.S. Navy will christen the future USNS Lansing (EPF 16) during a ceremony at Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama, Jan. 10 at 10:30 a.m. (CDT). The principal address will be delivered by The Honorable Hung Cao, Under Secretary of the Navy. Additional speakers will include Vice Adm. Seiko Okano, principal military deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy … [Read more...]
Using Your TRICARE Pharmacy Benefit in 2026
JANUARY 9, 2026 - The TRICARE Pharmacy Program helps you get the prescription drugs you need in a safe, easy, and affordable way. Express Scripts administers the TRICARE pharmacy benefit and offers tools to help you manage your prescriptions. “TRICARE offers several ways to fill your prescriptions,” said Lt. Col. Leighcraft Shakes, Deputy Chief, Pharmacy Benefit Integration … [Read more...]
The Path Towards More
JANUARY 9, 2026 - Becoming a Marine was something Sgt. Matthew B. Holder, an Alabama native and a network administrator with Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron (MWHS) 2, always knew he wanted to do. After all, he grew up in the Marine Corps. Holder’s father served as a Marine Corps AH-1 Cobra pilot, and growing up in a Marine family, he spent his childhood living on multiple … [Read more...]
Army Reserves Capture Energy Data
JANUARY 9, 2026 – Maintaining and documenting numbers for Army Reserve’s growing network of automated, data-driven facilities is a daunting mission. A contractor serving as a resource efficiency manager (REM) under the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Energy Division is turning that mission into reality. Alexandra Pitts, a Lindahl Reed, Inc. … [Read more...]
Southern Guard Hosts Corporals Course
JANUARY 9, 2026 - Service members assigned to Joint Task Force Southern Guard received a unique opportunity to attend the Marine Corps corporals course while deployed at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Dec. 9-22, 2025. The course is a demanding professional military education development program designed to prepare Marines for the responsibilities of a noncommissioned … [Read more...]