Infantry soldiers may soon wear a harness with an external spine that bears the heavy loads of ammunition, batteries, water and other combat necessities they carry into battle. The Integrated Support Exospine is a rigid yoke-belt system that is designed to redistribute the weight of heavy combat equipment so it’s much more comfortable to carry [...]
I for one am certainly grateful for the Air Combat Command because this is the branch of the Air Force that supports me in combat. I had the pleasure of working with some of their personnel during field training exercises where we used jets to provide air support. Every ground troop loves the sound of [...]
The mission of the Air Education Training Command is to recruit, train, and educate Airmen for the US Air Force. They obviously are doing their job because our Airmen are the best in the world. Military training is critical to winning any war and it is not as simple as just putting a lesson plan [...]
The Marine Corps will soon allow women to attend its school for infantry officers, as part of a larger effort to determine how to expand the role of women in the Corps. This shows that the Corps is changing to accomodate the times that we live in. These women are not being trained so that [...]
Analysts who have studied photos of a half-dozen ominous new North Korean missiles showcased recently at a lavish military parade say they were fakes, and not very convincing ones, casting further doubt on the country’s claims of military prowess. The missiles were loaded onto the largest mobile launch vehicles North Korea has ever unveiled. Pyongyang [...]
The Air force Civil Engineers are responsible for maintaining Air Force structures around the world. Unlike Army Combat Engineers they won’t see action on a battlefield but their job is important to the ability of the US Air Force to perform its paacetime and wartime mission. Civil Engineers can be flown anywhere in the world [...]
The mission of the Air Force Reserve is to Provide combat-ready units and individuals for active duty whenever there are not enough trained units and people in the Regular component of the Air Force to perform any national security mission. I know for a fact that Air Force Reserve pilots get a workout because they flew [...]
Air Mobility Command’s mission is to provide global air mobility. The command also plays a crucial role in providing humanitarian support at home and around the world. AMC Airmen—active duty, Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve and Civil Reserve Air Fleet provide airlift and aerial refueling for all of the United States’ armed forces. Many [...]
The latest rhetoric out of North Korea is that they are capable of using existing weapons that they have to pound US targets. According to North Korean officials they are armed with powerful modern weapons which are capable of defeating the United States. Now doesn’t that have the resounding tone of fresh BS. This statement [...]
A military judge refused on Wednesday to throw out the charges against an Army private accused of providing reams of sensitive documents to Wikileaks in the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history. Army Col. Denise Lind denied the defense motion to dismiss all 22 charges during a pretrial hearing in the court-martial of [...]
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