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Field artillery training integrates women into combat specialties
The loud booms from the fields of Fort Sill will sound the same, but for the first time women may be responsible for launching the artillery. The first class of female Soldiers joined A Battery, 1st Battalion, 78th Field Artillery, to learn the 13M, Multiple Launch Rocket System Crewmember military occupational specialty — an MOS [...]
6 Squadron Take Paveway to Typhoon Multi-Role Success
6 Squadron, based at RAF Leuchars, have continued to develop the multi-role capability of Typhoon by dropping inert Paveway II bombs for the first time from the Tranche 2 version of the combat aircraft. Pilots embarked on a series of training sorties over Cape Wrath Range last week to deliver this air to surface capability [...]
Army developing models for most survivable combat vehicle
In order to protect Soldiers’ lives, military vehicles in combat must be capable of surviving severe hostile fires. When hit with large hostile fire weapons, internally stowed ammunition may react resulting in catastrophic loss of life and system. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory, or ARL, then the Ballistics Research Laboratory, or BRL, developed effective ammunition [...]
Women make their mark in combat aviation
Operation Desert Storm saw the first female aviator in battle when Maj. Marie T. Rossi took the driver’s seat flying fuel and ammunition to the Soldiers crossing into enemy territory. Rossi lost her life when her CH-47 Chinook helicopter went down on March 1, 1991. Her headstone reads, “The first female commander to fly into [...]
Commander sees women in elite US special forces
The commander of US special operations said Tuesday he expects to see women in the elite commando forces now that the Pentagon is allowing them to serve in combat. Admiral William McRaven, head of the US special operations command, said he was “fully supportive” of the decision to lift the ban on women in combat. [...]
US Air force to open remaining combat positions to women
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey announced today the rescission the 1994 Direct Ground Combat Definition and Assignment Rule for women and that the Department of Defense plans to remove gender-based barriers to service. “Women have shown great courage and sacrifice on and off the [...]
Agency brings real intel to aerial combat exercise
For the first time in 38 years, realistic intelligence will be an integral part of the Air Force’s signature aerial combat training exercise. The Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency, via its 526th Intelligence Squadron, will be a key player at Red Flag 13-3, Feb. 25 to March 15, at Nellis Air Force Base, [...]
Obama pick for Pentagon shaped by combat in Vietnam
Chuck Hagel, the former Republican senator nominated as the next US defense secretary, is a decorated Vietnam veteran who will bring a skeptical eye to both military intervention and the Pentagon budget. Hagel, 66, is known for a fiercely independent streak and a tendency to speak bluntly, falling out with his fellow Republicans over the [...]
French Troops End Combat Mission in Afghanistan
French troops on Tuesday ended their last combat mission in Afghanistan by withdrawing from Kapisa province as part of an accelerated departure from the war-torn country. The last 400 soldiers deployed to the volatile province started to leave Nijrab, the French base in Kapisa, at 10:00 am (0530 GMT) after a departure ceremony. Of the [...]
