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COVID outbreaks, suicide reports, terrible working conditions, problems with paychecks are all plaguing the Texas National Guard. Hopefully, our 957th is operating under better conditions.

The US Navy (USN) shift towards the development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) mindset of updating software used in the commercial world will require a “cultural change”, according to Rear Admiral Douglas Small, commander of the Naval...

US Central Command (CENTCOM) is improving its counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) effort with a “rapidly evolving set of tools and training”, it said on 18 October. A member of the US Air Force's 386th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadr...

US Central Command (CENTCOM) is improving its counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) effort with a “rapidly evolving set of tools and training”, it said on 18 October. A member of the US Air Force's 386th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadr...

US Central Command (CENTCOM) is improving its counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) effort with a “rapidly evolving set of tools and training”, it said on 18 October. A member of the US Air Force's 386th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadr...

It really doesn’t take long into my morning coffee to begin drifting back to Afghanistan. Especially these days.

By Sgt. 1st Class Ryan Sheldon, 40th Combat Aviation Brigade | June 9, 2021 Estimated reading time 9 minutes, 34 seconds. For Staff Sgt. Brianna Pritchard, an Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter mechanic from Anchorage, Alaska, it all started with a dream to become an Olympian and a little bit of genetics. Staff Sgt. Brianna Pritchard, an Army Nation Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter mechanic from Anchorage, Alaska, in front of a Task Force Phoenix UH-60 Black Hawk medieval hel...

First, it was Hurricane Michael, a Category 5 storm with sustained winds of 155 mph and pure destruction as the storm's eye passed directly over Tyndall...

The soldiers of Task Force Phoenix faced several worst-case scenarios during a Culminating Training Exercise (CTE) over 10 days in April 2021. Indirect fire attacks, downed aircraft, improvised explosive device (IED) attacks on ground vehicles — everything but the kitchen sink was thrown at them. This occurred while the task force was executing typical aviation tasks its soldiers will perform during an upcoming deployment overseas, such as VIP flights and Forward Arming and Refueling Point...

The wounded and search for four missing comrades. after using aviation support to mark locations of fallen and wounded comrades, it became clear that ground recovery of the fallen was required due to heavy enemy fire on helicopter landing zones. captain swensons team returned to the kill zone another time in a humvee. captain swenson voluntarily exited the vehicle, exposing himself to enemy fire, to locate and recover three fallen marines and one navy fallen corpsman. he rallied his teammates an...