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NCOs Can Now Rank Their Assignment Preferences Under a New Army System

The Assignment Satisfaction Key – Enlisted Module for Army NCOs is scheduled to go Army-wide beginning Nov. 11, 2020 for the 21-01 enlisted manning cycle. (U.S. Army/Fonda Bock) For the first time, the U.S. Army will allow noncommissioned officers to rank where they would like to be assigned. Similar to its Assignment Interactive Module for officers, in use since 2016, the service…
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Army-Navy Game to Be Played at West Point This Year

U.S. Naval Academy quarterback (#2) Kriss Proctor runs the ball during the 112th Army-Navy Football game at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. 10 Dec 2011 (Photo: U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad Runge) For the first time since World War II, the…
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Have Army Emergency Relief Debt? It Could Soon Be Canceled

Several hundred soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division were reunited with their families following a nine month deployment, July 23, 2019, at Fort Drum, New York. (U.S. Army/Staff Sgt. Paige Behringer) More than 1,000 soldiers and Army families who received loans this…
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US Drone Strike Kills 17 Jihadists in NW Syria

U.S. military convoy drives through the town of Qamishli, north Syria, by a poster showing Syrain President Bashar Aassad Saturday, Oct. 26. 2019. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad) The U.S. Army said Thursday it carried out a drone strike against Al-Qaeda leaders in northwestern Syria near the Turkish border, killing 17 jihadists, according to a war monitor. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said…
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Samsung unveils the next chip for mid-range Galaxy phones on November 12th

Samsung’s next big wave of Galaxy phones is still a ways off, but that isn’t stopping the company from drumming up hype — even for the chips that will power those phones. SamMobile reports that Samsung’s Chinese branch has teased a launch event for its Exynos 1080 chipset on November 12th in Shanghai. There’s precious little info in the teaser regarding the chip besides its built-in 5G…
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Samsung Galaxy Watch3 Titanium hands-on

Samsung is a key player in the smart wearable business and its current line of Tizen-powered Galaxy Watch3 smartwatches are among the most popular around. But up until September the Galaxy Watch3 line didn’t have a truly premium model on sale to compete with rivals…
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More Oppo K7x specs appear ahead of launch

Oppo is launching the K7x smartphone on Wednesday, November 4, and initially, the company revealed this device will have a big battery. Now the phone with model number PDM00 appeared on Geekbench with a Dimensity 720 5G chipset, while a new official Weibo post unveiled an…
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Honor V40 phones to arrive mid-December with two chipsets

Back in October we spotted a teaser about the Honor V40 series, showing that the brand is still keen on manufacturing smartphones despite the troubles its parent Huawei is having. Today we know a bit more about the upcoming lineup, thanks to one leakster in China – the lineup will come in December and Honor will split the chipsets – some units are getting Dimensity 1000+, others will…
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