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(Photo: Soldiers with 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division and 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, guide a 3rd Brigade tank onto a ship at the port of Gwang Yang, South Korea, Feb. 29. The soldiers conducted redeployment operations for the brigade during the COVID-19 outbreak.) Each year, active-duty
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(Photo: World War II veteran Jack Eaton, his family and Army Capt. Harold Earls, commander of the Tomb Guard, watch the Changing of the Guard Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., Oct. 23.) At 100, Jack Eaton is the oldest living, oldest known sentinel
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Army Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper told senators that he would continue to prioritize training, modernization, building alliances and partnerships and reforming the Pentagon if he's confirmed to serve as secretary of defense. Esper, President Donald J. Trump's nominee to assume the Pentagon's top post, testified at his Senate Armed Services
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Development of a bill of rights for those living in privatized Defense Department housing is underway, and DoD is seeking the input of residents, the assistant defense secretary for sustainment announced in a memo. In the memo signed June 13, Robert H. McMahon invited residents of privatized family and unaccompanied housing
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Soldiers will no longer have to wait one year after completing their Advanced Individual Training to receive tuition assistance. Soon, tuition assistance will be available immediately for soldiers of all components after AIT. This assumes they meet existing eligibility requirements and have no flags like disciplinary problems or failure of the
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A 2.6 percent military pay increase was included in the Army's $148 billion budget request for fiscal year 2019, which Congress must still approve and might also opt to amend. Of note, the 2.6 percent raise is the largest pay raise for soldiers in nine years. Additionally, there was a 2.9 percent
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Women's strides made big news throughout 2015, with graduating from Ranger School, to the appointment of the first black female Army surgeon general to Defense Secretary Ash Carter opening up all military occupational specialties - or MOSs - to women. Here are some of the highlights:ALL OCCUPATIONS OPEN TO WOMEN On Dec.
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Army combat veteran and four-time Super Bowl champion Rocky Bleier of the Pittsburgh Steelers said he's often asked what it's like to be in combat. "We pray that we come back from war," he said he tells them. "We have to live with the scars, both visible and invisible. We have
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Remotely-controlled weapons systems have drastically reduced the number of soldiers needed for perimeter security at an expeditionary base camp here. "Every soldier I have assigned to securing the perimeter is one I don't have that can execute support missions," said Lt. Col. Raphael Heflin, commander, 142nd Combat Service Support Battalion, or
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Army leadership has recommended that field artillery military occupational specialties - or MOSs - 13B (cannon crewmember) and 13D (automated tactical data systems specialist) be open to women, the Army's chief of field artillery said. "We are waiting on a Department of the Army decision in reference to Field Artillery MOS
