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  • Gates adopts 26 Fort Hood panel recommendations

    Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has directed the Defense Department immediately to implement 26 interim recommendations of an independent panel he appointed to look into the Nov. 5 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, Pentagon officials said April 19.Gates signed the memorandum April 12.Maj. Nidal

  • MCPON testifies quality of life

    The master chief petty officer of the Navy and senior enlisted leaders from all the services testified before Congress April 14. They appeared before the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Military Construction.MCPON Rick D. West, along with the other top senior enlisted leaders from the

  • Virtual World prepares mobility Airmen for real mission

    Airmen preparing for the worldwide mobility mission of the 621st Contingency Response Wing here now have a powerful new training tool. A state-of-the-art virtual firearms training simulator with a 300-degree field of view is now being operated by the 819th Global Support Squadron to prepare CRW

  • Gates supports 'contiguous training' for Reserve components

    While admitting initial reservations, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told a National Guard conference today he sees benefits of a new plan that allows reserve-component servicemembers to conduct pre-deployment training before the clock starts ticking on their 12-month mobilization cycles.Gates

  • PsyOps vital link to information

    While wars are fought largely with weapons and brute strength, Soldiers of the 17th Psychological Operation Battalion are training at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst to pass useful information to Iraqi and Afghani citizens.Such information packets provided by a psychological unit may range from

  • Navy tuition assistance transactions shift to 100% WebTA

    All Navy Tuition Assistance transactions will soon shift to an entirely online process accessible through the Navy College Program Web site's WebTA portal.Sailors applying for tuition assistance will be required to use WebTA to process all applications beginning April 15."WebTA allows Sailors to

  • KC-135 testing aims at fueling efficiency, cost savings

    Engineers at the Air Force Flight Test Center here are testing a system known as the Automatic Receiver Aircraft Identification, or ARAI. Currently installed on a test aerial refueler, if the tests are successful, they say, the system will significantly improve air-to-air refueling.The ARAI is

  • Education activity launches interactive resource

    The Department of Defense Education Activity's educational partnership has launched an interactive educational resource for military families, military leaders and school leaders.The resource, "Students at the Center," provides information on important policies, procedures, and best practices that

  • JB MDL Airman supports KC-10 maintenance efforts in Southwest Asia

    Airman 1st Class Garret Coleman is a KC-10 Extender integrated avionics systems apprentice for instrument and flight controls with the 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron's Extender aircraft maintenance unit at a non-disclosed base here.He is deployed from the 305th Aircraft

  • JB MDL NCO manages deployed police services

    When a security forces investigation takes place at a non-disclosed base here, Staff Sgt. James Dees is probably in the middle of it. As the noncommissioned officer in charge of police services for the 380th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, his job requires that he takes the lead in myriad