By Debbie Gregory. Last week, American warplanes unleashed a massive attack on at least two Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) training camps in Libya, killing an estimated 80 militants. This was one of the last short-notice military operations ordered by President Barack Obama. “The fighters training in these camps posed a security risk to Libya, […]
By Debbie Gregory. Technology is advancing at a rate that is difficult to keep up with. As further evidence, the Department of Defense is providing $80 million to establish a bio-research and manufacturing institute to develop transplant tissues and organs for injured American soldiers and other patients. The Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute will be located […]
By Debbie Gregory. The U.S. Defense Department, reacting to North Korea’s statement that it plans to test an intercontinental ballistic missile, said it was confident in its ability to protect U.S. allies and the U.S. homeland from threats from Pyongyang. Pyongyang is the capital and largest city of North Korea.”We remain confident in our ballistic […]
By Debbie Gregory. The Jeff Miller and Richard Blumenthal Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2016 (HR 6416) signed into law December 16th, fails to make truly significant program improvements. The law fails to address several controversial issues, including: a solution to the veterans appeals process, new accountability procedures for VA employees or […]
By Debbie Gregory. The Army is looking to the future to determine what will be necessary to support ground warfare in the years to come. Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) has refined the previously revealed “Big 8” modernization priorities to the “Big 6+1” set of initiatives, with the “+1” referring to soldier and team performance […]
By Debbie Gregory. Lee Anne Walters noticed that the tap water in her Flint, Michigan home had an orange tint to it. Her twin boys also had rashes. Doctors confirmed one of the boys was showing signs of stunted growth. The Walters were living in Flint because Lee Anne’s husband, Dennis Walters, was stationed there. […]
By Debbie Gregory. Financial guru Suze Orman is donating her services to the active-duty Army after a similar partnership with the Army Reserve. Orman hopes to spice up the financial advice offered through official military sources, which can be on the dry and boring side. “For some reason, when you start to get very formal […]
By Debbie Gregory. Could a sense of loss and grief have been at the root of the recent airport shooting in Ft. Lauderdale? On Jan. 2, 2011, Jose Cintron Rosado and Jose Delgado Arroyo, members of the Puerto Rican Army National Guard, were in a lead vehicle near Taji, Iraq, that was locating and disarming […]
By Debbie Gregory. Sometimes it takes an act of Congress. And that is exactly how the House and Senate paved the wave to permit retired Marine Gen. James Mattis to head the Pentagon for Donald Trump. The measure overrides a prohibition against former U.S. service members who have been out of uniform for less than […]
By Debbie Gregory. The Pentagon’s blast gauge program has been put on hold. Thousands of combat troops in Afghanistan were outfitted with monitoring gauges that were meant to show whether service members had been close enough to an explosion to have sustained a concussion, or mild traumatic brain injury. One of the major problems was […]
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