The 244th CAB helps mentor Iraqi Pilots
July 18, 2019 - U.S. Army Lt. Col. Natalie Nevins, 244th Combat Aviation Brigade Command Flight Surgeon, Task Force Warhawk, and her medical team traveled to the Iraqi Taji Airbase, Amber Zone, to mentor helicopter pilots from the Iraqi Army Aviation Squadron 55 unit, and demonstrate combat lifesaver and first aid skills June 17-20, 2019.
Seabees, Soldiers Join Forces During Integrated Training Exercise
July 18, 2019 - Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 25 recently utilized the Engineering Professional Exchange Program (EPEP) to create a new training opportunity from June 1-14 for both the U.S. Army Reserve's 372nd Engineer Brigade and the Seabees of NMCB 25 at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin.
Army Reserve Division welcomes new commander at Fort Benning
July 17, 2019 - Family, friends and Soldiers from the 98th Training Division (Initial Entry Training) welcomed their new commanding general, Brig. Gen. Tony Wright, and bid a fond farewell to their out-going commander, Brig. Gen. Miles A. Davis, during a Change of Command Ceremony on July 13, 2019, at the National Infantry Museum’s Inouye Field.
Military medical might: Healthy Cortland IRT in full swing
July 17, 2019 - After only a day-and-a-half of care, members of the Healthy Cortland Innovative Readiness Training saw 292 patients and even more smiles thanks to their efforts in Homer, NY, July 11.
The 9-day event is part of the larger Healthy Cortland and Greater Chenango Cares Innovative Readiness Training, which is a Department of Defense military training mission, exclusive to the United States and its territories, that delivers joint training opportunities to increase deployment and emergency readiness.
Fort Dix Army engineers expand skills at Beyond the Horizon
July 17, 2019 - The 990th Engineer Company, Fort Dix, N.J. is fresh off a deployment to the Middle East and now faces a different kind of mission — building a trade school in remote Central America as part of the partnership for joint exercise Beyond the Horizon. The exercise is a chance for more than 1,200 Service members from the U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard to work and train intimately on combat support roles like building structures and providing medical services alongside Guatemalan counterparts.
The Quandary on Centralized versus Decentralized Support
July 17, 2019 - Maj. Gen. Peter A. Bosse, commander of the 335th Signal Command (Theater) and Maj. Gen. Kenneth D. Jones, commander of the 81st Readiness Division discuss ways that U.S. Army Reserve commands can collaborate to increase readiness in America's Army Reserve
Dentists provide no-cost care while operating in field conditions
July 15, 2019 - Dental personnel from U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard units, U.S. Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard units, and U.S. Navy Reserve units are providing no-cost medical care to community members of rural New York during the Greater Chenango Cares Innovative Readiness Training July 11 - July 20, 2019.
Mobilization Support Force, Process is King
July 15, 2019 - Units from across the U.S. Army Reserve who make up the Mobilization Support Force conducted their annual training at Fort Bliss, Texas, from June 17-30. These units were selected to augment Fort Bliss’s ability to sustain an increased number of warfighters who would be trained and validated during a Mobilization Force Generation Installation expansion.
Command Sgt. Maj. honors father in Guam as 75th Anniversary “Liberation of Guam, 1944” approaches
July 12, 2019 - For Command Sgt. Maj. Patrick McDonald of the 322nd Civil Affairs Brigade based out of Fort Shafter Flats, Honolulu, Hawaii, a routine training mission in Guam is more than just training, it is a chance to personally reconnect with the island’s WWII history in ways few are given the opportunity. Joining the Navy in the late 1940s, McDonald’s father, Senior Navy Corpsman Roy McDonald, was the senior medic on the beach tending to Marines who were with him through Bougainville and Guadalcanal campaigns.