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Dan Spencer, chief of Force Protection and Security Fort Hood, presents the Fiscal Year 2021 Department of the Army’s Large Installation (population over 10,000) Antiterrorism Program award to Col. Chad

Redstone Arsenal personnel can expect some interruptions to the workday on Wednesday, Aug. 25. That’s because the Arsenal will be completing a full-scale exercise, a simulated emergency scenario designed to test and evaluate emergency response procedures. Tameline Black, a Garrison emergency management specialist and lead exercise planner, said this year’s simulation will be a severe weather event. Full-scale exercises occur every 18-24 months in accordance with the Homeland Security ...

A vigilance is needed on everyone’s part, including Wright-Patterson Air Force Base personnel. Combine warfighting ability to employ cost- and mission-effective drones in combat with the popularity of consumer drones in the United States, and it’s not hard to see how small unmanned aircraft systems could pose dangers in the U.S. Global drone sales are expected to reach $43 billion by 2024 while accelerating technological improvements to increase the range, lift capacity, speed and battery l...

9 EAST GRANBY, Conn. -- On July 21, 2011, Master Sgt. Jessica Roy gave birth to her first child, Austin. He was born prematurely at 26 weeks and weighed 1 pound, 11 ounces. Doctors at Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford promptly placed him in the neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU. “I was at the NICU all day every day until my maternity leave ended, and then I had to come back to work,” said Roy, 103rd Security Forces Squadron S2 Intelligence and Investigations Superinte...

Its a trend thats continued now for over a decade. this week, for example, we learned the nsa reportedly shares raw intelligence data with israel, data which likely includes phone calls and e-mails of american citizens, according to yet another document provided to the guardian by whistleblower edward snowden. again, privacy tested in the name of counterterrorism. the leaders of the city, the 12 years ago today was still clouded in dust and debris, remain unapologetic about that kind of tradeoff...