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Army Platoon Leader Creates App to Help Grunts Earn the Expert Infantryman Badge
A soldier assigned to 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division, uses the EIB Pro app while training to earn an Expert Infantryman Badge at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, in October 2020. (U.S. Army/Egor Krasnonosenkikh)
28 Apr 2021
An Army infantry officer out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, has designed a smartphone training app that nearly doubled his battalion s success rate at earning the coveted Expert Infantryman Badge, or EIB, last year.
First Lt. Egor Krasnonosenkikh, a platoon leader with 7th Infantry Division s 4th Battalion, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, created the EIB Pro by teaching himself how to program through YouTube videos and other online resources while cooped up at home during the early months of the pandemic, according to an Army news release.
A Quincy High School alum and Vietnam veteran received the Bronze Star Medal on April 17, 2021; 50 years after the event that earned him the recognition.
In October of 1969, Vicente Sanchez Jr enlisted in the army. He completed basic training at Fort Lewis, now Joint Base Lewis-McChord, and went to Fort Gordon in Georgia for Army Initial Training for 18 weeks. His military occupations specialty was Avionics Mechanic, which included wire troubleshooting radios and navigational equipment on army aircrafts.
At the completion of his training he was able to spend a couple weeks home with his family before being shipped off to Vietnam on June 23, 1970.
By RACHAEL RILEY | The Fayetteville Observer | Published: April 28, 2021 FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (Tribune News Service) New leaders will be welcomed within the special operations community at Fort Bragg, according to recent Department of Defense announcements. In a news release Monday, it was announced that Brig. Gen. Steven Marks, deputy commanding general of the 1st Special Forces command, wouldn t travel for his next assignment to become the deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command. A replacement for Marks s current role has not yet been announced. On March 25, a news release from the Department of Defense stated that Maj. Gen. Richard Angle, deputy commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, will be the new commander of the 1st Special Forces Command.
Children have had an especially rough time since March 2020.
COVID-19 largely took away their schooling, in-person relationships with friends and fellow students, their teachers, extracurricular activities, and any semblance of a normal life. It gave them worried parents and iffy internet connections for school - and for game playing or other fun uses.
And for the almost 2 million kids of activity-duty families, already saddled with the burden of frequent moves, it gave them more emotional instability. There has been more of a demand for mental health services as military kids are coping with the pandemic, said Kelly Blasko, a research psychologist and lead for the mHealth Clinical Integration Connected Health Branch with the Defense Health Agency (DHA). Depending on the age, military kids are experiencing anxiety, depression and behavioral concerns.