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  • Lead Story The 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade deployed in March 2018 to Afghanistan to carry out the inaugural mission for the newly-created SFAB concept. The brigade returned in November, and leaders say their experience there has proven successful what the Army hoped to accomplish with the new kind of training unit. Success of first SFAB in Afghanistan proves 'Army got it right,' commander says
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  • Featured Photo The Golden Knights Black Team performed a jump in front of an ecstatic crowd of children, April 11, 2019. The Golden Knights are one of only three Department of Defense-sanctioned aerial demonstration teams, along with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds. Golden Knights
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  • General Officer military exchange with France approved April 19, 2019
  • Department of the Army announces upcoming 1st BCT, 25th ID, U.S. Army Alaska unit rotation March 29, 2019
  • Department of the Army announces upcoming 3rd ABCT, 1st Cavalry Division, unit rotation March 29, 2019
  • Department of the Army announces upcoming 3rd BCT, 82nd Airborne Division, unit rotation March 29, 2019
  • US Military plans release of Tenant Bill of Rights March 6, 2019
  • Installation Management Command to realign under Army Materiel Command February 11, 2019
  • US Army statement on DoD report on sexual harassment and violence at the military service academies January 31, 2019
  • Department of the Army announces upcoming 2nd Security Force Assistance Brigade unit rotation October 18, 2018
  • Department of the Army announces upcoming 1st Cavalry Division Headquarters unit rotation October 18, 2018
  • Department of the Army announces upcoming 1st Infantry Division units' rotation October 18, 2018
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  • The Golden Knights Black Team performed a jump in front of an ecstatic crowd of children, April 11, 2019. The Golden Knights are one of only three Department of Defense-sanctioned aerial demonstration teams, along with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.

    Golden Knights

  • An M1A2 Abrams maneuvers in the training area of Fort, Irwin Calif., during 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division's Decisive Action Rotation.

    M1A2 Abrams

  • Best Sapper teams participate in Phase II of the 2019 Best Sapper Competition, April 8, 2019, at Lake of the Ozarks Recreation Area, Mo.

    Best Sapper Competition

  • Sgt. Antonio Garcia Badge #655 lays a single rose at each of the crypts while conducting his last walk on the plaza at the Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier, Arlington National Cemetery, April 17, 2019.

    Last walk

  • NASA astronauts (from left) Anne McClain and Christina Koch pose for a portrait inside the Kibo laboratory module from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency . Both Expedition 59 flight engineers are members of NASA's 2013 class of astronauts.

    Army Astronaut

  • A Soldier scales the monkey bars as part of the Green Mile physical endurance course during week three of the Jungle Operations Training Course at the Lightning Academy, Wahiawa, Hawaii, April 18, 2019. JOTC spans over three weeks where Soldiers learn to communicate, navigate, and maneuver in any tropical jungle environment.

    Jungle Operations Training Course

  • Soldiers from the 198th Infantry Regiment host day one of the Best Mortar Competition, April 9, 2019, at various locations on Fort Benning, Ga. Soldiers competed in trauma lanes, where they operated in a simulated tactical environment, with known enemies, to assess, treat and evacuate casualties, while suppressing enemy fire.

    Best Mortar Competition

  • U.S. Military Academy cadets compete in Sandhurst, the world's premier international academy military skills competition, at West Point, New York, April 12, 2019. The competition strengthens relationships with our allies and partners and showcases the tenacity and grit of future leaders of the armed forces across the world.

    Sandhurst military competition

  • U.S. service members participate in an Armed Forces Full Honor Arrival Ceremony held in honor of Jeong Kyeong-doo, minister of the national defense, Republic of Korea at Joint Base Meyer - Henderson Hall, Arlington Va., April 2, 2019. The event was hosted by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford.

    Full Honor Arrival Ceremony

  • A Soldier who serves as crew chief with Charlie Company, 3rd General Support Aviation Battalion, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, studies terrain aboard a UH-60 Blackhawk aircraft as part of a flight survey during Exercise Balikatan 2019 near Mount Pinatubo, Fort Magsaysay, Philippines, April 1, 2019. Exercise Balikatan, in its 35th iteration, is an annual U.S.-Philippine military training focused on a variety of missions, including humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, counter-terrorism, and other combined military operations held from April 1 to April 12.

    Flight survey in Phillipines

  • A Soldier assigned to Regional Health Command Europe uses the grappling hook to clear a wire obstacle during U.S. Army Europe Expert Field Medical Badge Combat Testing at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, March 29, 2019. To qualify for the EFMB, Soldiers must endure a multitude of events such as land navigation, physical fitness test, medical evacuations, weapons function checks, ruck march, chemical biological radioactive nuclear evaluations, written test  and medical treatments.

    Expert Field Medical Badge Combat Testing

  • Green Berets assigned to 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) fire the M2 .50 caliber machine gun, April 2, 2019, at Fort Bragg, N.C. The Green Berets fired multiple weapon systems during the live fire range to include the M240B machine gun, M320 grenade launcher and the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon.

    Firing the M2 .50 caliber machine gun

  • Paratroopers fire a M120A1 mortar system during Exercise Eagle Sokol 19, at Pocek Training Area, Slovenia, March 26, 2019. Exercise Eagle Sokol is a bilateral training exercise with the Slovenian Armed Forces focused on the rapid deployment and assembly of forces and team cohesion with weapon systems tactics and procedures.

    M120A1 mortar system

  • Soldiers from the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division blasts through a Combined Arms Breach at Fort Irwin National Training Center, Calif., March 20, 2019.

    Combined Arms Breach

  • A grenadier with 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, strives for maximum lethality on the battlefield as he participates in a platoon live-fire training on Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii, April 3, 2019. T

    Platoon live-fire training

  • After two full days and nights of events to test stamina, technical prowess and mental acuity, 16 teams crossed the finish line April 14 at Fort Benning, Ga., concluding the Best Ranger Competition.

    Best Ranger Competition

  • Paratroopers patrol through the woods during Exercise Eagle Sokol 19, at Pocek Training Area, Slovenia, March 25, 2019. Exercise Eagle Sokol is a bilateral training exercise with the Slovenian Armed Forces focused on the rapid deployment and assembly of forces and team cohesion with weapon systems tactics and procedures. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army Contingency Response Force in Europe, capable of projecting ready forces anywhere in the U.S. European, Africa or Central Commands' areas of responsibility.

    Patrolling in Slovenia

  • Paratroopers assigned to 173rd Airborne Brigade, engage targets during a blank-fire exercise as part Eagle Sokol at Pocek Range in Slovenia, Mar. 25, 2019. Exercise Eagle Sokol is a bilateral training exercise with the Slovenian Armed Forces focused on the rapid deployment and assembly of forces and team cohesion with weapon systems tactics and procedures.

    Bilateral training with Slovenian Armed Forces

  • Capt. John Bergman and Capt. Michael Rose with 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), win the 2019 Best Ranger Competition at Fort Benning, Ga. After two full days and nights of events to test stamina, technical prowess and mental acuity, 16 teams crossed the finish line, April 14, 2019.

    Best Ranger Competition

  • Soldiers of the 143rd Infantry (Airborne), returns fire with the Squad Automatic Weapon during the Joint Forcible Entry Exercise at Kelly Drop Zone, San Antonio, Texas, March 23, 2019. The Joint Forcible Entry Exercise is an annual large scale Airborne drop and mobility mission that simulates a contested battlefield scenario as a way of training units for dangerous situations that occur while deployed.

    Firing SAW

  • Soldiers with 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, assume a defensive position with M1 Abrams tanks during a live-fire exercise with their Polish counteroarts at Drasko Pomorskie Training Area in Drawsko Promorskie, Poland, Mar. 29, 2019.

    M1 Abrams tanks

  • An Expert Field Medical Badge candidate reaches for his mask after a simulated chemical attack during lane testing at Fort Bragg, N.C., March 14, 2019. Soldiers participating in the competition must don gas masks within nine seconds to proceed in the qualification for the Army special skills badge.

    Simulated chemical attack

  • A Soldier dons his gas mask during the Gunslinger Challenge on Fort Hood, Texas, March 7, 2019. The Gunslinger Challenge is a quarterly competition the 553rd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division Sustainment Brigade, uses to build morale across the organization.

    Gunslinger Challenge

  • Paratroopers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade, pull an M81 igniter to detonate a brazier charge during Exercise Rock Spring 19 at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, March 6, 2019.

    Brazier charge

  • The U.S. Army's Golden Knights and the British Army's Red Devils train together during a joint training exercise with other parachute team Soldiers at Homestead Air Reserve Base. Fla., March 13, 2019.

    US, British parachutists

  • Staff Sgt. Garrett Golden, Badge #651, conducts his last walk on the plaza at the Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier, Arlington National Cemetery, March 22, 2019.

    Last Walk

  • Soldiers visit local children during a catered lunch at the Engineering Civic Action Project 4 opening ceremony as part of Exercise Balikatan, March 12, 2019. Exercise Balikatan, in its 35th iteration, is an annual U.S.-Philippine military training exercise focused on a variety of missions, including humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, counter terrorism and other combined military operations. The military relationship between the U.S. and the Philippines is strong and based on mutual respect and cooperation.

    Bonding with local community

  • Soldiers fire M249 light machine guns at night during live-fire training at Grezelka range, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, March 4, 2019. Utilizing the M249 light machine gun and M240L machine gun, the Spartan paratroopers honed their marksmanship skills by engaging multiple targets at varying distances.

    Night kive-fire training

  • President Donald J. Trump posthumously awards the Medal of Honor to Staff Sgt. Travis W. Atkins at the White House in Washington D.C., March 27, 2019. Atkins was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for actions while serving with Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, in Abu Sarnak, Iraq, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, on June 1, 2007. His extraordinary heroism in attempting to subdue a suicide bomber and shielding three Soldiers from the imminent explosion resulted in him being mortally wounded and saving the Soldiers.

    Medal of Honor Ceremony

  • Col. Ben Skardon, a 1938 graduate of Clemson University, WWII POW, recipient of two Silver Stars, and survivor of the Bataan Death March, poses at the mile 8 marker of the Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., March 17, 2019. Skardon came to White Sands to walk in the march for the 12th time. He is 101 years old, and the only survivor of the actual death march to walk in the memorial march.

    Bataan Death March survivor

  • A paratrooper puts the finishing touches to her face camouflage in preparation for the blank-fire exercise as part of Lipizzaner V at Pocek Range in Postonja, Slovenia, March 12, 2019. Lipizzaner is a combined squad-level training exercise in preparation for platoon evaluation, and to validate battalion-level deployment procedures. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army Contingency Response Force in Europe, capable of projecting ready forces anywhere in the U.S. European, Africa or Central Commands' areas of responsibility.

    Camo paint

  • Soldiers from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) helps conduct military funeral honors with funeral escort for U.S. Army Air Forces Capt. Lawrence Dickson in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., March 22, 2019. Dickson, a World War II Tuskegee Airman (100th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group), went missing in action over Italy in December 1944 when his plane crashed during his return from an aerial reconnaissance mission. His P-51D aircraft suffered engine failure and was seen crashing along the borders of Italy and Austria. Dickson's daughter, Marla Andrews, received the flag from her father's casket during the service.

    Funeral honors for MIA Tuskegee Airman

  • The 116th Cavalry Regiment conducts platoon live-fire gunnery qualifications, Feb.14, 2019, at the Orchard Combat Training Center, Boise, Idaho. The Idaho Army National Guard Soldiers are preparing for the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team's upcoming rotation at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif., later this year.

    Live-fire gunnery qualifications

  • Retired Sgt. Daniel Cowart is presented the Distinguished Service Cross during a retreat ceremony conducted in his honor at Fort Hood, Texas, March 20, 2019. Chris Widell, a friend of Cowart's who helped during his recovery, pinned the medal on Cowart's uniform. According to the citation for the award, in 2007 in Iraq, an insurgent his team encountered was wearing a suicide vest, "Without hesitation and with utter disregard for his safety, Sgt. Cowart maneuvered under fire and engaged the insurgent in hand-to-hand combat."

    Distinguished Service Cross

  • A child reacts to seeing her dad returning home from a deployment at Fort Carson, Colo., March 9, 2019. The 4th Combat Aviation Brigade deployed to Europe as part of the regionally allocated forces supporting Operation Atlantic Resolve, an important mission for strengthening relationships and interoperability amongst allies and partners.

    Homecoming Ceremony

  • A Georgia National Guardsman low crawls through a trench during the Individual Movement Technique event at the state Best Warrior Competition at Fort Stewart, Ga., March 6, 2019. Competitors were evaluated on time to complete the course, their capability to move through various obstacles and the clearing of a bunker.

    Best Warrior Competition

  • A 101st Airborne Division Soldier pulls the lanyard on an M777A2 howitzer during a fire mission in Southwest Asia, Jan. 26, 2019. The 101st Airborne Division deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, working by, with and through the ISF and Coalition partners to defeat ISIS in areas of Iraq and Syria.

    M777A2 howitzer

  • Paratroopers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, participate in Exercise Rock Spring 19 at Grafenwoher Training Area, Germany, March 6, 2019. Rock Spring is an annual exercise to validate platoon-level proficiency at conducting offensive operations under live-fire conditions.

    Platoon-level proficiency

  • A U.S. Army mobile gun system Stryker fires upon several targets during a week-long gunnery range at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Feb. 14, 2019.

    Stryker

  • Paratroopers huddle over a mock casualty to protect it from the rotor-wash of a landing UH-60 helicopter at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Feb. 20, 2019.

    Mock medical evacuation

  • U.S. Central Command's senior enlisted advisor, Command Sgt. Maj. William Thetford, pulls the lanyard on an M777A2 during a fire mission at Fire Base Saham, Jan. 18, 2019. Command Sgt. Maj. Thetford visited f 101st Airborne Division Troopers who are deployed in support of Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve, working with partner forces to defeat ISIS in designated areas of Iraq and Syria.

    M777A2

  • Trainees negotiate a confidence course on Sand Hill, Feb. 27, 2019, at Fort Benning, Ga. The mission is to transform civilians into disciplined Infantrymen.

    Confidence Course

  • Idaho Army National Guard Soldiers conducts platoon live-fire gunnery qualification, Feb.14, 2019, at the Orchard Combat Training Center, Idaho.

    Live-fire gunnery qualification

  • A U.S. Army Soldier takes down a U.S. Airman during a U.S. Army Combatives course exercise at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

    U.S. Army Combatives course exercise

  • Soldiers guide an M1A2 Abrams tank through the breach point while conducting a live-fire exercise during Decisive Action Rotation 19-03 at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif., Jan. 23, 2019. Decisive Action Rotations at the NTC ensure Army Brigade Combat Teams remain versatile, responsive, and consistently available for current and future contingencies.

    M1A2 Abrams tank

  • Royal Thai Armed Forces Master Sgt. 1st Class. Saengchai Seeuthai, left, passes various insects as food to U.S. Army Pfc. Kyle Ridge, a combat medic with Bravo Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, during exercise Cobra Gold 19 at Phitsanulok, Kingdom of Thailand, Feb. 13, 2019. Cobra Gold is one of the largest theater security cooperation exercises in the Indo-Pacific and is an integral part of the U.S. commitment to strengthen engagement in the region.

    Cobra Gold 19 Jungle Survival Training

  • After the armored bulldozers dig enough into the earth, a test must be conducted to ensure that the Bradley fighting vehicle is concealed and able to maneuver freely at the Fort Bliss Training Area, N.M., Feb. 8. "Old Reliable" drives into the ditch calculating the amount of room on both sides as well as the amount of top coverage.

    Ram Focus 2019

  • A Royal Thai Army soldier moves to pull security with his U.S. counterparts during an air assault training mission, Feb. 5, 2019, at Sa Kaeo Province, Thailand, as part of Hanuman Guardian. Exercise Hanuman Guardian provides a venue for both the U.S. and Thailand armies to advance interoperability and increase partner capacity by planning and executing complex combined task force operations.

    US, Thai Soldiers air assault mission

  • Soldiers in the M1A2 Abrams tank prepares to fire its main weapon at targets while conducting live-fire exercises during Decisive Action Rotation 19-03 at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif., Jan. 25, 2019. Decisive Action Rotations at the NTC ensures Army Brigade Combat Teams remain versatile, responsive, and consistently available for current and future contingencies.

    M1A2 Abrams

  • Paratroopers descend onto Juliet Drop Zone, Pordenone, Italy, Feb. 13, 2019. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army Contingency Response Force in Europe, capable of projecting ready forces anywhere in the U.S. European, Africa or Central Commands' areas of responsibility.

    Airborne in Italy

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