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Fans view equipment at Army-Navy game
The way it's all integrated is what I think is most fascinating –– they have the battery here and it integrates with all the smartphone stuff they're doing elsewhere," Koelsch said. "It seems like ...
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Football uniforms pay tribute to Battle of the Bulge, national championship teams
WEST POINT, N.Y. — The U.S. Military Academy football team pays tribute to Army football teams of the past, while also honoring the force's units, Soldiers and veterans, when they take on the U.S. ...
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With a zero carbon footprint, the improved TGER 2.0 prototype reduces the volume of waste in 30 to one ratio.
Army scientists improve garbage-to-energy prototype device
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — The year was 2008 and the on-going war in Iraq was a dangerous landscape for Soldiers on the ground, especially convoys traveling to and from base camps. Roadside bom...
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Leadership from the U.S. Army Installation Management Command, including Lt. Gen. Mike Ferriter and Command Sgt. Maj. Earl Rice, participated in the Chicago Bears' annual tribute to military veterans during their Nov. 11 game against the Houston Texans on Veterans Day at Soldier Field.
IMCOM leaders, NFL teams honor veterans, discuss TBI
CHICAGO — Leadership from the U.S. Army Installation Management Command, including Lt. Gen. Mike Ferriter and Command Sgt. Maj. Earl Rice, participated in the Chicago Bears' annual tribute to milit...
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Military spouse hiring program gains 30-plus companies
WASHINGTON, D.C. –– More than 30 companies and organizations joined the Military Spouse Employment Partnership Nov. 14 as part of the White House-sponsored “Joining Forces” effort to help unemploye...
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Staff Sgt. Charles Baird, currently assigned to the Fort Belvoir, Va., Warrior Transition Unit, takes aim during the Army archery and sitting volleyball assessment and selection clinic for the 2013 Warrior Games.
Warrior Games assessment, selection clinics underway
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The U.S. Army Warrior Transition Command Warrior Games assessment and selection clinics are currently being held throughout the United States to find the best athletes to represen...
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Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, conducted training in a "decisive action training environment," at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, La., Oct. 9-21. The DATE training prepares Soldiers for day one of a military operation, exercises a brigade's mission-essential task list, and supports the Army's core competencies, including both wide-area security and combined arms maneuver.
Army training for DATE with hybrid threats
FORT POLK, La. — Last month, about 1,200 Soldiers parachuted into the Joint Readiness Training Center here to participate in a "Decisive Action Training Environment" exercise meant to prepare them ...
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Comanche code talkers recognized for critical services
FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. –– In June 1944, when Comanche Indian Cpl. Charles Chibitty landed on Utah Beach in Normandy, his first radio message was to another Comanche on an incoming boat. He transmitte...
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Sylvia James, the widow of Lt. Col. Leon James, a former battalion commander for the 2/314th Field Artillery Battalion who was killed in Iraq in 2005, and Leon Tartar, the last known World War II survivor of the 79th Reconnaissance Troop, present a World War II helmet signed by the members and family members of the 79th Reconnaissance Troop and the 314th Infantry Regiment to noncommissioned officers representing 157th Infantry Brigade, First Army Division East.
World War II veteran shares stories with Soldiers
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — "It was 1942 the last time I was there," Leon Tarter remembered about Camp Atterbury, Ind. "They asked if anyone wanted to be a truck driver. Well, I was only eighteen years ...
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Leadership development occurs even when Soldiers are deployed. Here, Soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team provide overwatch security as a convoy passes through a valley, April 29, in southern Wardak province, Afghanistan.
Developing leaders tops Army's priorities
WASHINGTON — Soldiers, having experienced the "crucible" of the last 11 years of an Army at war, where "discipline, initiative, freedom of action, adaptability and decentralization" have been the n...
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