By Debbie Gregory. Are you ready for some football? More to the point, are you ready for some Navy football? The U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen won’t just be playing on Saturdays, they’ll also be featured on third installment of A Season With — , the Showtime series that takes viewers behind the scenes with a […]
By Debbie Gregory. Army National Guard Lt. Gen. Timothy Kadavy is looking at flexibility and specialized training to create more career opportunities and shorter deployments for National Guard soldiers. Guard members will continue to serve 39 days a year — one weekend each month and a 15-day training exercise. Guard Soldiers respond when disaster strikes […]
By Debbie Gregory. In light of increasing threats from Eastern Europe, the United States Army is focused on relearning Cold War-era skills to confront potential Russian threats. The adjustments include re-camouflaging vehicles to blend into the terrain, dispersing into smaller groups to avoid sophisticated surveillance drones and the use of netting to hide troop positions. […]
By Michael Kotick We are in the longest standing war in our nation’s history where post-9/11 service members engage in multiple deployments in short succession, making the modern tour of duty as unique as the attention these individuals need upon their return civilian life. For many, this is the toughest fight. Orange County has the […]
By Debbie Gregory. A federal report shows that a Veterans Affairs office in New Mexico has denied 592 out of 640 of benefit claims related to Gulf War Illness (GWI), also known as Gulf War Syndrome. Data from the U.S. Government Accountability Office shows that Albuquerque’s Department of Veterans Affairs denied about 90% of these […]
By Debbie Gregory. As search and rescue efforts at sea were suspended for the nine missing John S. McCain sailors, the Navy identified the sailor whose remains were located inside the ship’s flooded compartments as Electronic Technician 3rd Class Kenneth Aaron Smith, 22, of New Jersey. Smith was a third-generation sailor. Divers will continue recovery efforts […]
By Debbie Gregory. When it comes to overcoming our daily challenges, we civilians can learn a thing or two from our elite military forces. Our Special Forces are masters of warfare, fitness, endurance, and preparation. Here are some of their mental preparation techniques that we can all use: Concern yourself with just the immediate: don’t […]
By Debbie Gregory. The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the active search for five crew members missing after their Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter went down during a training exercise on August 15th off the Hawaiian coast. The Army has identified the crew as: 1st Lt. Kathryn Bailey, 26, of Hope Mills, North Carolina, was […]
By Debbie Gregory. Breakthroughs in biometric science mean future troops will fight with weapons that understand them, inside and out. The U.S. military is funding research to collect biophysical data from soldiers, sailors, Marines, and pilots in order to improve troops’ performance by understanding what’s happening inside their bodies. The research will help develop […]
By Debbie Gregory. The head of the U.S. Air Force’s Air Combat Command wants permission to deal with civilian drones—including shooting them down Gen. Mike Holmes, the head of Air Combat Command (ACC), is trying to remedy the problem of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) that are flown near a military airfield. Holmes reported that back […]
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