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Army Deadly Serious About Replacement Ground Vehicle
WASHINGTON: After cancellation of its Future Combat Systems program, the Army continues to focus on modernization of the force and a replacement for the canceled Manned Ground Vehicle. “We’ve got our very best people working on it,” said Lt. Gen. Stephen Speakes, deputy chief of staff, Army G-8. “We’re doing everything we can to reflect [...]
Airmen train with Army to become JTACs
HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii: Rain and mud may not have been forecasted for radio operators, maintainers and drivers’ training in the wilderness, but Airmen geared up anyway to practice combat lifesaver skills, convoys, air-assault egression, and improvised explosive device reaction with one goal in mind: to become combat mission-ready joint terminal attack controllers. Tactical [...]
RAF Receive New Hawk Training Aircraft
The first of the RAF’s £450m fleet of 28 new Advanced Jet Trainers, the Hawk T Mk2, arrived at RAF Valley in Anglesey today, Thursday 2 July 2009. The new Hawk Ts will mean pilots can now train on an aircraft with systems closely compatible with the latest front line jets. The new aircraft builds [...]
Large-scale military drills start in southern Russia
ROSTOV-ON-DON: Large-scale military drills start on Monday in 10 southern subjects of the Russian Federation, a spokesman for the North Caucasus military district said. The exercises, dubbed Caucasus-2009, comprise a series of operational drills with North Caucasus District troops, including South Ossetian and Abkhazian brigades, as well as units of the Black Sea Fleet, the [...]
Bomber crews improve mission skills at Northern Edge 2009
EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska: The 96th Bomb Squadron from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., deployed here for exercise Northern Edge 2009 to practice mission planning and war-time procedures. The 96th BS brought three B-52H Stratofortress long-range bombers to train in the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex and over the Gulf of Alaska with other [...]
Singapore-US Training Achieves New Standards During CARAT
SINGAPORE: The Singapore phase of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) 2009 ended June 19 at Changi Naval Base yielding a new level of cooperation and interoperability between the Republic of Singapore and U.S. forces, supporting a key pillar of the Navy’s Maritime Strategy. “Each year we dig deep and we somehow manage to expand [...]
Ugandan soldiers graduate from counter-terrorism course
ENTEBBE, Uganda: Soldiers with Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa, completed their sixth military-to-military training partnership in Uganda with the graduation of 134 Uganda People’s Defense Force soldiers during a ceremony at Kasenyi training school on June 16, 2009. Leaders from both CJTF-HOA and UPDF spoke during the ceremony and congratulating the soldiers [...]
Streamlined ancillary, expeditionary skills training eliminates redundancy
WASHINGTON: New policy, released in March, streamlined redundant and outdated ancillary training programs and aligned expeditionary skills training with warfighter requirements. However, Air Force leaders recently addressed the time requirement to complete ancillary training after discovering a common misperception existed among Airmen that all ancillary training could be accomplished in 90 minutes. “In 2007, the [...]
Iraqi air force builds ISR foundation with help from Airmen
NEW AL MUTHANA AIR BASE, Iraq: The Iraqi air force is taking shape under the watchful guidance and support of Airmen. A team of air advisors from the Coalition Air Force Training Team, part of Multinational Security Transition Command – Iraq, has introduced current intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technology to the IAF by providing pilots [...]
