SEPTEMBER 16, 2024 - Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III announced seven initiatives to improve the quality of life for service members and their families today. These actions build on the extensive and unprecedented actions that Department of Defense leaders have taken over the past four years as part of Austin's Taking Care of People initiative. Secretary Austin … [Read more...]
Guard Hosts Female Royal Thai Air Force Officers
Washington Army National Guard Chief Warrant Officer 2 Kristin Retherford, 10th Civil Support Team Survey Team Leader, gives Royal Thai Air Force officers a tour of the 10th CST facilities and equipment while explaining the unique mission set during a State Partnership Program engagement Sept. 11, 2024, at Camp Murray, Wash. The tour was part of the first female … [Read more...]
Marines Add New Missle to Arsenal
U.S. Marines with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 232, Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, and Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 11, MAG-11, load an AGM-158A joint air-to-surface standoff missile on an F/A-18 Hornet assigned to VMFA-232 during the AGM-158A validation and verification at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, Aug. 27, 2024. MALS-11 … [Read more...]
Austin, First Lady, Tour Pre-K Program
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III greets First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., Sept. 13, 2024. The Secretary and First Lady were visiting Maxwell announcing seven new initiatives adding to Austin’s “Taking Care of People’” program aimed to improving the quality of life for Service members and their families. (DoD photo by Chad J. … [Read more...]
DoD Accounts for 700th Missing Korean War Hero
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024 - With the Sept. 9, 2024, accounting of Army Corporal Billie Charles Driver, 18, from Dallas, Texas, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency marked the identification of the 700th missing personnel from the Korean War. Corporal Driver, member of the 1st Calvary Division, perished in the Battle of the Pusan Perimeter, Sept. 5, 1950. “This is an incredible … [Read more...]