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Navy ramps up unmanned systems weapons tests, calls for industry push
The Navy recently launched two groundbreaking weapons tests as the service continues its push for unmanned systems.
By Zita Ballinger Fletcher
Tuck your legs, soldiers, the ACFT is finally here
The six-event ACFT replaced the aging APFT Thursday as the Army's new standard for measuring fitness.
By Harm Venhuizen
Citing 13 brigades-worth of non-deployable troops, Army looks to holistic health solutions
As of April, more than 58,000 soldiers were non-deployable. The Army's Holistic Health and Fitness program intends to curb those numbers.
By Kyle Rempfer
Draft-era ‘shark attacks’ on Army infantry recruits are over
An initiation developed during the Army’s draft years to intimidate trainees has been replaced by a new event intended to emphasize teamwork and trust.
By Kyle Rempfer
Seoul: North Korea may conduct underwater-launched missile test
North Korea may soon conduct its first underwater-launched ballistic missile test in about a year, a top South Korean military official said Wednesday, amid long-stalled nuclear talks between the North and the United States.
US Army general meets with German officials over outbreak at military-run resort
The general commanding American troops in Bavaria met Wednesday with local officials in the Alpine town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen to reassure them of the U.S. military's commitment to preventing the spread of COVID-19, after an outbreak at a troop hotel sickened dozens.
3 more COVID cases linked to American’s bar crawl in Bavaria, shutdown of resort catering to US military personnel
Authorities in southern Germany have recorded three more COVID-19 infections in people who frequented bars visited by a 26-year-old American woman suspected of flouting quarantine rules in the Alpine resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
By Frank Jordans, The Associated Press
Why toxic senior leaders survive — and sometimes thrive — in the military
The armed forces have lost far more talent as a result of poor and toxic leadership than any supposed benefit the toxic people have brought to their organizations, writes recently retired Col. Jason Lamb.
By Retired Col. Jason Lamb