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In yet another attempt to ensure operational readiness, the Army is offering significant bonuses to qualified personnel in order to reenlist. Under its selective retention bonus program, which is set to commence on the second week of September, the Army is offering monetary bonuses that can reach up to $81,000. But the new bonuses are […]
Hospitalman Shane McGuire won the Best Medic competition at Kandahar Airfield (KAF) on August 9, 2019. McGuire was the only U.S. Navy Corpsman to enter the competition, which consisted of 15 U.S. Army medics and Romanian contingent medical personnel. The competition was sponsored by the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, and competitors came from surrounding Forward […]
The Navy has decided to drop detainee-abuse charges against a group of four Navy SEALs. The would-be case concerned reports of participating in and supervising the beating a group of suspected Taliban in 2012. At the time, the SEAL platoon concerned was working with an Afghan police unit when one of their checkpoints was attacked […]
Soldiers of C Troop, 1st Squadron, 75th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, conduct a blank-fire raid on a building in the Fort Campbell training area on Wednesday, August 14, 2019. The soldiers spent two weeks training with Green Berets from 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), on various battle drills, mission planning […]
In what turned out to be an awful month for the Special Forces community, the Pentagon released the name of yet another Green Beret killed in action in Afghanistan on August 29. Sergeant First Class Dustin Ard was killed by small-arms fire during a joint operation with Afghan Special Operations Forces (SOF). The U.S. Special […]
Soldiers fire a Javelin during a joint range exercise with Indonesian Armed Forces at a military base in Indonesia, Aug. 22, 2019, during Garuda Shield, an exercise that aims to promote regional peace and security.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQrmMQ7Wptc U.S. and Australian Special Operations Forces (SOF) conduct a military freefall parachute insertion at night with zero natural illumination from 7,500 feet (2,300 meters) altitude, July 2019 during Talisman Sabre. By inserting behind enemy lines SOF conduct surveillance and reconnaissance to enable precision targeting. Talisman Sabre is a bilateral exercise that tests the […]
ANTA RITA, Guam (Aug. 26, 2019) Marines assigned to 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division and Clearance Divers assigned to the Royal Canadian Navy’s Fleet Diving Pacific and Atlantic Units board Military Sealift Command maritime prepositioning force container, roll-on/roll-off and mobile landing platform USNS Dahl (T-AKR 312), during a visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) […]
Staff Sgt. Christopher Moore, combat medic with Landstuhl Regional Medical Center rucks to the next location Aug. 21, 2019 during the 21st Theater Sustainment Command Best Medic Competition at Baumholder, Germany. Competitors took part in over 30 events over the span of three days that tested their medical and war fighting skills. The top winners […]
On November 2018, a Ranger was killed during a raid against al-Qaida fighters in Afghanistan. Sergeant Leandro Jasso, a team leader serving at the 2nd Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, was mortally wounded during room-clearing operations in the Kash Rod district, Nimruz province. At the time of the incident, the Army had announced that Sgt. […]
U.S. Army Military Working Dog (MWD) handler Spc. Jermaine Lewis, 100th Military Police Detachment, along with MWD Torro, demonstrate a controlled aggression attack during a K-9 demonstration at an annual event at Patch Barracks, August 24, 2019.
The Irish government decided to deploy its elite counterterrorism unit to Mali as part of the United Nations (U.N.) peacekeeping effort in the region. A team of 14 operators from the Army Ranger Wing (AWG), also known as the Irish Army Rangers, will be attached to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali […]