Defense

Veronica Carbajal places a candle at a mural for Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen in Austin, Texas, on Monday July 6, 2020 (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP) Soldiers will not be declared absent without leave until a search is conducted, an investigation is launched, and family or friends contacted under a new Army measure to track soldiers when they go missing. Army leaders said Thursday…

Mark Rasnake outside the hospital in October 2005. (Photo courtesy of Mark Rasnake) Maj. Mark Rasnake was exhausted. The 32-year-old Air Force infectious disease specialist had worked through the night treating some of the worst trauma he’d seen in his life — seven soldiers who’d been brought in after sustaining catastrophic burns when their Bradley Fighting Vehicle hit an…

Modernization officials recently began equipping combat units with prototypes of the FTUAS for field-testing. (U.S. Army) Army aviation officials recently provided an update on the service’s field-testing of its next-generation drone aircraft program, a key modernization effort under Future Vertical Lift (FVL). The Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (FTUAS) is being developed to…

Mortarmen from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, practice crew drills during an exercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana, Oct. 11, 2020. (U.S. Army/Spc. Demi Jones) The Army is pursuing a new plan to train and deploy units at the same time it modernizes, with the goal of preparing…