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Army to Shake Up Training, Rotational Deployments to Allow Time for Unit Bonding

Infantrymen with the Army National Guard’s 3/278th Armored Cavalry Regiment based out of Lewisberg, Penn., storm into action during an attack on the simulated village of Rajeesh, at the Army’s Fort Irwin National Training Center. (Sarah Kirby/U.S. Army) The secretary of the Army cited the murder of Spc. Vanessa Guillen earlier this year as he outlined aggressive changes intended to improve…
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Army Wants to Spend Nearly $10 Billion to Revamp its Barracks

An employee from the U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden Directorate of Public Works installs vinyl flooring in a day room in barracks building 1206 Aug. 27, 2020, on Clay Kaserne. Day rooms provide a space for recreation and unwinding. (Army photo by Emily Jennings) The U.S. Army plans to spend nearly $10 billion repairing its barracks over the next decade to improve soldiers’ standard of…
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Army Wants Missile to Kill Enemy Targets Beyond 900 Miles

A precision strike missile was fired on April 30, 2020, at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, and hit a target 85 kilometers away. (Lockheed Martin) U.S. Army modernization officials want to field a new mid-range missile that can kill targets at triple the distance of…
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Army Wants to Spot-Promote Officers Moved into Hard-to-Fill Jobs

Maj. Tatchie Manso, 1st Theater Sustainment Command, smiles as Elena, Manso’s wife, pins on his new rank during a ceremony at Fort Knox, Ky., Dec. 11, 2019. (U.S. Army) As part of the upcoming round of the Army’s new officer assignment system, a select group of officers could get promoted early if chosen for typically hard-to-fill jobs across the service. Known as brevet, or spot…
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Army: No Requests Made for Use of Troops Around Election

This March 27, 2008, file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) Army leaders said Tuesday that they have not received any requests to use active-duty or National Guard troops for possible civil unrest surrounding the presidential election…
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As Private Sector Races to Develop a COVID-19 Vaccine, Army Takes Guarded Approach

A research microbiologist harvests samples of coronavirus in a Biosafety Level 3 laboratory at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md. (U.S. Army/William FBill Discher) As commercial manufacturers push their COVID-19 vaccine candidates through the final phases of clinical trials, researchers at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, or WRAIR, are…
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