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Army Reserve Soldiers help test 3D-printed explosives containers during combat engineer course
November 9, 2023 — Army combat engineers are tasked with breaching obstacles, and one of the ways they do that is through the use of explosives. But finding ways to make those explosives even more effective — and safer, more cost effective, easier to transport and modular — is a task on which experts continue to work... MORE

Linemen show off skills learned at Fort Leonard Wood’s Prime Power School
June 7, 2023 — Students graduating from the U.S. Army Prime Power School’s Powerline Distribution Course got the opportunity to show off their new lineman skills during Storm Night and the Lineman Rodeo this week... MORE

Army Reserve Soldiers travel more than 2,000 miles to train with Fort Leonard Wood subject matter experts
May 30, 2023 — Army Reserve Soldiers with the 276th Support Maintenance Company, out of Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, are gaining on-the-job experience at their military occupational specialties with Fort Leonard Wood’s Fleet Management Expansion Directorate, as part of a U.S. Army Materiel Command initiative called Operation Patriot Press... MORE

Army Reserve team Competes in Best Sapper Competition
May 17, 2021 — Over 90 enlisted, officer, and cadet competitors representing 20 active Army installations, National Guard and Army Reserve teams participated in the Best Sapper Competition at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri earlier this month... MORE

Soldier takes her shot at military life at 27
March 24, 2021 — Albert Einstein once said: “Billiards is the well-developed art of thinking ahead.” A pool player’s every move must set up the next. Spc. Leigha Skadsem was beginning to think she had made all the wrong moves in her life when she found herself at a bar called the Hideaway Lounge in Cresco, Iowa on Christmas night 2015... MORE

A green and blue family reunion: Army father's brief meet-up with Air Force daughter in Afghanistan
March 2, 2021 — For Maj. Jason Blanco, an Army Reserve Soldier deployed to Afghanistan, an in-person meeting he needed to attend at a different camp led to an opportunity most Soldiers don’t get while deployed: a family reunion. Blanco was able to spend an afternoon with his daughter, Air Force Reserve Tech. Sgt. Katrina Rutherford, a medical technician who was deployed to Afghanistan at the time with the 442nd Fighter Squadron, from Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo... MORE

41-year-old MP trainee to graduate from One Station Unit Training
January 21, 2021 — Growing up, Spc. Joseph Cannon, a 41-year-old Reserve trainee assigned to Company D, 787th Military Police Battalion, always wanted to serve in the military — it just took him a little longer than most... MORE

Storm Night, Lineman's Rodeo test Soldiers attending Prime Power Distribution Course
December 17, 2020 — Five Soldiers attending the U.S. Army Prime Power School’s Power Line Distribution Course here demonstrated knowledge gained over the past 10 weeks during a Storm Night exercise Nov. 11 and 12, and a Lineman’s Rodeo competition Tuesday. ... MORE

From Amish to Army: The story of one Soldier's challenging journey
May 30, 2019 — Ten years ago, with only an 8th-grade education, and the drive and motivation to start a new life, Pvt. Malinda Dennison left her small Amish community in Spartansburg, Pennsylvania. With the help of friends, she started on the path that led her to graduate from Fort Leonard Wood May 23 as a military police Soldier with Company E, 795th Military Police Battalion... MORE

Using technology to keep Soldiers safe
February 1, 2019 — This robot won’t vacuum your home and won’t respond to your voice, but it could save your life. Army Reserve soldiers from the 469th Engineer Platoon out of Bentonville, Arkansas, a subordinate unit of the 416th Theater Engineer Command, were at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, this week learning how to use new equipment... MORE

Members of the 469th Engineer Platoon out of Bentonville Arkansas run the M160 Robotic Mine Flail at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri on January 15th, 2019 (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Dan Marchik/416th Theater Engineer Command).

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