Army looks to robotics, AI to make refueling aircraft faster and safer in battle
The Army has begun revamping outdated aircraft fueling and rearming procedures to make the process quicker and safer for service members in combat zones.
The Army has begun revamping outdated aircraft fueling and rearming procedures to make the process quicker and safer for service members in combat zones.
Personnel from 10 nations will join in a massive 10-day Army exercise in Hawaii next month with drills taking place on three of the state’s islands. The Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center kicks off training on Oct. 7 with soldiers fanning out across Oahu, Maui and the Big Island.
The family of Waverly B. Woodson Jr., a Black combat medic who treated 200 troops during the harrowing invasion of Normandy during World War II, gathered Tuesday in Washington to see Woodson’s 95-year-old widow receive the Distinguished Service Cross he was awarded posthumously for his heroism.
Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery were the first in the service to receive 27 M270A2 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems. The launchers arrived in July.
Turning U.S. Army rotational brigades into units permanently based in Europe could give the security assurances needed to nudge allies into playing a larger role in supporting Ukraine, a new U.S. Army War College study asserts.
A U.S. service member stationed in South Korea pleaded guilty to assaulting a taxi driver in Seoul and was fined roughly $2,250 last month.
The Dustoffs extracted 900,000 wounded U.S., Vietnamese, and allied soldiers from May 1962 to March 1973. The Army said the medevac crews had a one-in-three chance of becoming casualties themselves.
Pvt. Travis King on Friday was sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to deserting to North Korea. But he walked out of the courtroom a free man, with credit for time already served and good behavior.
Existing units don’t have the capacity to manage a wartime flow without compromising their health care services, officials said. The new unit will also impress on adversaries that allied troops will fight hard, knowing they’ll be taken care of.
The Polish Defense Ministry mobilized 10,000 soldiers to help combat the widespread floods, and the Polish military put out a call for additional help Wednesday. American troops answered the call within hours.