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  • LCC begins Fleet-wide roll-out this month

    The Center for Personal and Professional Development  is rolling out Modules 1 and 2 of the Leadership Core Continuum  this month.LCC training is designed to meet the continuing process of training and developing enlisted leaders in pay grades E4 through E6."CPPD is working diligently on the next

  • Joint program aims to reduce firefighter injuries

    Firefighting may be near the top of the Defense Department's list of high-risk occupations, but there's a move afoot to make it safer. According to reports, Defense Department firefighter injuries -- more than 1,000 new incidents each year -- have cost the department nearly $30 million a year. When

  • South N.J. community shares holiday spirit with deploying service members

    Airmen, Soldiers and Sailors took a break from the combat training field at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Nov. 26 to indulge in a Thanksgiving Day feast with supporters of the military from the local community.Military members currently attending pre-deployment combat skills training for

  • 'First-strike ration' aims for better nutrition

    Several military organizations are working together to provide servicemembers with healthy, good-tasting, sustainable and nutritionally sound combat rations. "We're charged with a fairly awesome task, and that is to fuel the Defense Department's most flexible and adaptable weapons platform, and

  • Kirkuk airmen train Iraqis to train Iraqis

    Lt. Col. Chris Spigelmire has defined success in Iraq, "The better we do our jobs, the fewer people they'll send to replace us until we don't have to be here at all.""The trick is," he added, "the Iraqi air force has to be able to do what we're doing without us around."Spigelmire, deployed from

  • AMC commander: 'Time to give thanks'

    For over 230 years our great nation has celebrated Thanksgiving as a time to recognize the many priceless gifts we enjoy as Americans. It's a time to appreciate and celebrate our families and our friends; a time to reflect on how privileged we are to live in such a great land of opportunity. For

  • Army joins with mental health institute to study suicides

    The Army is collaborating with the National Institute of Mental Health to launch the largest study ever undertaken of suicide and mental health among military personnel."The bottom line is, we want to apply science in a way that it's going to solve this problem to the benefit of Soldiers," Robert

  • Family Care Plan revisions include deployment deferment option

    Navy officials announced revisions to its Family Care Plan policy Nov. 23 which includes a new deployment deferment option for eligible Sailors. "Under the new policy, Sailors who are required to complete a family care plan and may be deployed to an area authorized imminent danger pay are allowed to