Tag: army – active duty
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No answer for Nowitzki
CAMP EGGERS, Afghanistan, Aug. 2, 2012 – Some families have a son, daughter, mother or father deployed, but for some, a deployment is a complete family affair. Army Sgt. 1st Class Stephen Latch, the mobility noncommissioned officer in charge, and Army Staff Sgt. Carmelita A. Latch, an integrations noncommissioned officer, both work here in support…
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Wynn got chance, now gets spotlight
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2012 – Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Army Reserve Chief Lt. Gen. Jeffrey W. Talley today signed an agreement to increase employment opportunities for reserve members and to facilitate connecting military families with America’s outdoors, history and culture. Under the agreement, the Army Reserve and the Interior Department will: — Seek joint…
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This season’s path tougher for AFA
FORT McCOY, Wis., Aug. 1, 2012 – The Army Reserve has a unique ability to integrate professional civilian skills that its citizen-soldiers have acquired and use them to assist the unit in completing its mission. Reservists who bring their civilian skills to the Army Reserve are known as “force multipliers.” Reserve units see it as…
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Life’s good on top
Fort Carson leaders welcomed the new commander of the 4th Infantry Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team on Tuesday during a change of command ceremony on post. Col. Omar Jones assumed command of the brigade, which recently returned from a deployment to southern Afghanistan. The brigade spent a year training Afghan soldiers and police in Kandahar…
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Winning on empty
FORT BRAGG, N.C., July 31, 2012 – Army Sgt. Merrell Lowe went to a doctor for what he thought was a minor issue, but his next memory was waking up from a coma. “I woke up to the beeping noises of the heart monitor. When I opened my eyes, I saw my company commander looking…
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Air Force takes on Texas-Pan American in basketball
WASHINGTON, July 27, 2012 – The U.S. Senate yesterday confirmed Army Lt. Gen. Frank J. Grass as the next chief of the National Guard Bureau and Air Force Maj. Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel as the bureau’s vice chief. Grass, who also will be a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will be promoted to…
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Reliable Droughns has Shanahan’s confidence
ARLINGTON, Va., June 21, 2012 – The military’s top enlisted member joined a local chapter of the Sgt. Audie L. Murphy Club here yesterday in honoring the club’s namesake on his birthday. Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Bryan B. Battaglia, senior enlisted advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, joined the Military District…
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Broncos relying on defense in 3-1 start
As the Army considers opening Ranger School to female soldiers, women have shown their ability to tackle another prestigious Army course for the past 13 years. The 28-day Sapper Leader Course at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., where combat engineers and engineer officers earn the coveted Sapper tab, has been open to women since 1999. Since…
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Dodgers rally big to beat Rockies
This month, soldiers will begin testing a camouflage pattern that looks more like reptile scales than terrain as part of the field-trial portion of the Army’s camouflage improvement effort. The start of the field evaluation comes five months after Army uniform officials announced the finalists that had emerged from the service’s exhaustive Phase IV Camouflage…
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Witness: ‘I think I was in error’
An Iraqi war vet is selling a medal on eBay that he earned for his service in hopes of making money to support his wife and three children, and the bidding has topped $3,000. Bill Shephard, 43, of Woodbury, N.J, returned home in 2009, but could not even find an entry level job in information…