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Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division recently assisted in the completion of airborne testing for the Laser Target Locator Module or LTLM II.
First Army assisted Soldiers with the 34th Infantry Division and Minnesota Army National Guard prepare for deployment during a recent Warfighter Exercise.
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As the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, rolls into Gunnery, they wouldn’t be able to shoot or move if they couldn’t communicate. Spc. Aspen Easter is the primary COMSEC Custodian for the Battalion S6 Shop. She also is the line representative, spending over 30 hours recently troubleshooting and maintaining the communication systems for both Attack and Battle Companies. After roughly three years of service, she’s looking forward to many more as she attends nursing school in her free time.
Army ValuesThe Army Values are a set of characteristics that are essential to the Army and instills these values into all Soldiers and Civilians with an expectation that they live them every day, in everything they do -- on and off duty.
On the 101st birthday of the 1st Infantry Division, the ‘Big Red One’ honored an outgoing commander and welcomed a new senior leader back to Fort Riley.
The First Division Museum in Wheaton, Illinois, recently held a ceremony to honor the 100th anniversary of first major ‘Big Red One’ victory of WWI.
A 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives Command Soldier was recently selected as the Aberdeen Proving Ground Soldier of the Year.
FRONTLINEU.S. Army Forces Command
June 22, 2018 | Volume VIII, Issue 25
“If conflict were to happen today, anywhere in the world, there is no doubt in my mind the U.S. Army would prevail, hands down.”
– Dr. Mark T. Esper Secretary of the Army
June 13, 2018, Washington
Senior Leaders SECARMY on Readiness
On Point Off-Duty Safety Awareness PresentationThe Off-Duty Safety Awareness Presentation, or ODSAP, is the U.S. Army’s safety presentation containing statistics, contributing factors, prevention tips and other relevant information regarding off-duty mishaps. This presentation, developed by the U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center, is for use at battalion level and below. With the onset of summer and the anticipated rise of off-duty mishaps, the U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center launched its annual off-duty safety awareness presentation. Themed “Your Life, Our Loss: What You Leave Behind,” ODSAP contains materials and statistics that highlight the role of safety in off-duty activities.
By Lisa Ferdinando, DoD News
WASHINGTON -- Nearing its 100th day of de-ployment in Afghanistan, the highly trained and specialized 1st Security Force Assistance Bri-gade is seeing results, the unit’s commander said.
“We confirm that we had the right training to prepare us to train, advise, assist, accompany and enable our Afghan partners,” Army Col. Scott Jackson told Pentagon reporters via videoconfer-ence June 13 from Kabul, Afghanistan.
“The manner in which the SFAB operates requires a degree of specialized training, provid-ing self-sufficiency in difficult and complex situa-tions,” he said.
In the time the brigade has been in Af-ghanistan, Jackson explained, the troops have witnessed Afghan forces taking the fight to the enemy and using their own resources. Afghan
forces have used air assets, artillery and ground maneuvers with success in the fight.
The 1st SFAB was designed and equipped for the specialized mission in training, advising, as-sisting, accompanying and enabling Afghan forc-es from the kandak to the corps level, Jackson said. A kandak is roughly the size of a battalion.
SFAB members are volunteers who were se-lected based on their high level of technical ex-pertise, physical fitness and potential ability to advise a foreign security partner force, Jackson explained.
“Since our arrival we have deployed advisory teams to every Resolute Support regional com-mand and partnered them with Afghan army, police and border force elements ranging from kandak to Afghan brigades and police districts and all the way up to Afghan corps, division and police zones,” he said.
Sgt. Christian Ladd, a combat medic assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade, observes as Afghan medical soldiers treat a simulated casualty during a medical evacuation exercise at the Regional Military Training Center-Kandahar in Kandahar, Afghanistan, May 8, 2018. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Neysa Canfield)
1st SFAB seeing results after 100 days in Afghanistan
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Above Staff Sgt. James Ahn, an explosive ordnance disposal team leader with the 49th Ordnance Company, from Fort Campbell, Ky., dons a bomb suit, during the 2018 Ordnance Crucible on Fort A.P. Hill, Va., June 4, 2018. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Arnada Jones)
Left Staff Sgt. Kyle Dodier (front), a weapons squad leader with B Company, 2nd Battalion 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, walks among the tombstones at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, May 31, 2018, at Normandy, France. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Wallace)
Right Lt. Gen. Laura J. Richardson (left), deputy commanding general, FORSCOM; Sgt. Maj. Barry Kulinski (right), FORSCOM G-2 sergeant major, cut a birthday cake, June 14, 2018, on Fort Bragg, N.C. in honor of the Army’s 243rd birthday and FlagDay. (U.S. Army photo by Kimberly S. Waldron)
Left Paratroopers with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, prepare to land during an airborne operation as part of Swift Response 18 at a drop zone near Rukla, Lithuania, June 9, 2018. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Gregory T. Summers)
Above Soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, conduct fire phobia training at Camp Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny, Kosovo, May 2, 2018. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Ed Alvarado)
