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A former 1st Cavalry Division deputy commander and current commander of U.S. Army North was nominated by President Joe Biden on Monday for a new command. Lt. Gen. Laura J. Richardson was nominated for a fourth star and to take over U.S. Southern Command, which has responsibility for Central and South America. Richardson was the first female 1st Cavalry deputy commander from 2012-2013, and was a brigadier general at the time. In her time at Fort Hood, she made headlines as the first female to lead the U.S. Army Operational Test Command and the first woman to serve as a deputy commander of an A...

Advertisement Field Artillery Soldiers will soon be ready to test-fire the modernized Army Tactical Missile System at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. Bravo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 20th Field Artillery Regiment will undergo intensive training here on the latest versions of software before operational testing. Due to the upcoming DoD cluster munition ban, the Army has been working persistently to provide an accurate and lethal substitute for the legacy Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munition warhead. After several months of developmental testing with a unitary warhead and proximity sensor,...

  Sgt. Ean Hul, a vehicle commander with Bravo Company, 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas, guides his driver as they reconnect the Joint Assault Bridge to the Heavy Assault Scissor Bridge (HASB) after passing the task force over a natural gap during operational testing of the Joint Assault Bridge (JAB) at Fort Riley, Kansas.  (Photo Credit: Mr. Tad Browning, Lead Audiovisual Production Specialist, U.S. Army Operational Test Command Joint Assault Bridge aces Operational Test; fielding plans include all COMPOs by By Rae Higgins,...