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Special Forces team 'best of best' during Best Ranger Competition |
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Friday, 14 May 2010 |
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FORT BENNING, Ga. -- The 2010 David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger
Competition came to a close on Sunday evening, when the last teams
standing following the three-day event had crossed the finish line.
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Army pilots take to skies for first time in Lakota helicopters over Europe |
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Friday, 07 May 2010 |
HOHENFELS, Germany -- After a long wait, five new UH-72A Lakota Light
Utility Helicopters arrived Wednesday at the Joint Multinational
Readiness Center.
Falcon Team pilots landed three twin-engine Lakotas on Wednesday morning
at the airfield on Army Garrison Hohenfels. Pilots landed two more of
the light utility helicopters later in the day.
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Army releases 2010 modernization strategy |
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Written by davidtkl
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Friday, 30 April 2010 |
WASHINGTON -- The Department of the Army released Wednesday the 2010
Army Modernization Strategy (AMS).
"The goal of Army modernization is to develop and field the best
equipment available to allow our Soldiers to be successful against our
enemies," said Gen. George W. Casey Jr., chief of staff of the Army. "We
must continue to transform into a force that is versatile,
expeditionary, agile, lethal, sustainable and interoperable, so that our
Soldiers will have a decisive advantage in any fight."
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Entire 101st to deploy to Afghanistan within year |
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Written by davidtkl
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Friday, 30 April 2010 |
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, April 28, 2010) -- Throughout 2010 and
2011, more than 20,000 Soldiers from Fort Campbell's 101st Airborne
Division will deploy to Afghanistan, the first time an entire Army
division has deployed to Operation Enduring Freedom within one year.
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Captain repeats win in Best Sapper competition |
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Written by davidtkl
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Friday, 30 April 2010 |
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (April 27, 2010) -- A previous Best Sapper
Competition winner returned to the champion's stage, April 21, at
Gerlach Field.
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Army networks MRAPs, M-ATVs |
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Written by davidtkl
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Friday, 23 April 2010 |
The U.S. Army has outfitted a handful of Mine Resistant Ambush
Protected, more commonly referred to as MRAP, vehicles with Network
Integration Kits designed to give the bomb-defeating vehicles the
ability to share real-time information such as sensor data from robots
and UAVs while on-the-move in combat, service officials said.
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Pentagon buys MRAPs with improved suspension |
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Written by davidtkl
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Friday, 16 April 2010 |
The Pentagon has ordered more than 1,300 new Mine Resistant Ambush
Protected vehicles, or MRAPs, with newly built independent suspension
systems designed to improve the blast-protected vehicles' off-road
performance in Afghanistan.
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M-ATVs to replace Humvees in Afghanistan, vice says |
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Friday, 16 April 2010 |
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, April 14, 2010) -- The mine-resistant
ambush- protected all-terrain vehicle, or M-ATV, is on its way to
Afghanistan to replace many of the up-armored Humvees.
"It will not be too long before we will be able to get everybody who can
be out of the up-armored Humvee into the MRAP ATV," said Vice Chief of
Staff of the Army Gen. General Peter W. Chiarelli.
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World Trade Center I-beam finds home in Afghanistan |
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Written by davidtkl
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Friday, 09 April 2010 |
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- An I-beam that was once a part of the
World Trade Center now has a home in Afghanistan where the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks were first planned.
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Army developing new Ground Combat Vehicle |
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Written by davidtkl
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Friday, 02 April 2010 |
The U.S. Army's Feb. 25 release of a formal Request for Proposal, or
RFP, to industry marks a significant step forward in the effort to build
a first-of-its-kind, highly versatile Ground Combat Vehicle - a
nine-man squad Infantry Carrier that can protect against IEDs and other
threats, move in urban and off-road terrain and accommodate emerging
technologies such as lightweight armor composites and electronics as
they become available, service leaders said.
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