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81st Readiness Division welcomes new commanding general

The 81st Readiness Division welcomed its newest commanding general as Maj. Gen. Karen S. Monday Gresham relieved Maj. Gen...

World away, ready to respond: U.S. Army Reserve Soldier’s path to Angolan emergency room

A medical exchange designed to share military practices became something more when U.S. and Angolan medical professionals found...

U.S., Angolan forces conduct trauma activation simulation during medical readiness exercise

Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) and U.S. Army Reserve medical professionals with the 915th Forward Resuscitative Surgical Detachment,...

Archive: January, 2022

Army nurses offer insights on living with COVID-19 now, looking into future
January 31, 2022 — One of the more challenging jobs for any public health professional is dealing with unpredictability inherent in outbreaks like the current COVID-19 pandemic. Issues like new COVID-19 variants, explaining when and where the next surge might take place, the need to sometimes adjust recommended preventive measures, and trying to combat persistent misinformation and disinformation can all lead to increased public confusion and sometimes resistance or fatigue...

27 Soldiers, ROTC cadets, Airmen graduate Fort McCoy’s Cold-Weather Operations Course class 22-02
January 28, 2022 — Twenty-seven Soldiers, Airmen, and ROTC cadets completed training in 2022’s first session of the Fort McCoy Cold-Weather Operations Course (CWOC) after graduating from 14 days of training with class 22-02...

U.S. Army Reserve civil affairs contributes to Allied Spirit '22
January 28, 2022 — The 432nd Civil Affairs Battalion of the U.S. Army Reserve is currently participating in Allied Spirit 22, setting up a civil-military operations center (CMOC) organizing information gathered from civil affairs and psychological operations teams across the training area...

Fast-forwarding event nudges priest to chaplaincy
January 28, 2022 — His friends and family members use words such as joyous, humorous, goofy, warm, spiritual and approachable to describe him. Add planner, organizer, administrator and dependable to that list. Those are the adjectives that Lt. Col. Paul Weberg hopes those who know him best use to define him. Weberg is the new 88th Readiness Division command chaplain...

5th Armored Brigade Soldiers help local nonprofit secure $100,000 grant
January 27, 2022 — Oklahoma Army National Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers attached to 5th Armored Brigade at Fort Bliss, Texas, attended a $100,000 grant presentation at the Armed Services YMCA (ASYMCA) Jan. 21, 2021...

Profiles in Space: Capt. Jack Lamotte - Army Reserve Soldier supporting space full time
January 26, 2022 — For the majority of Soldiers in the Army Reserve, the military is a part-time job, with them serving one weekend a month and two weeks or so a year. This is the standard obligation for most when it comes to Reserve or National Guard duty, but Capt. Jack Lamotte has turned the Army Reserve into a launching pad for a career in space with on- and off-active duty orders in 1st Space Brigade for almost a decade...

Exercise preps ASC-ARE Soldiers for deployment
January 24, 2022 — Members of the Army Sustainment Command-Army Reserve Element who will support the 401st Army Field Support Brigade in Kuwait were brought here to prepare them for their duties downrange. It proved to be time well spent, according to Chief Warrant Officer 4 Jason Miner, an ASC-ARE automotive maintenance officer who attended the exercise, dubbed CORE 22.1...

Marking 30 years: USTRANSCOM’s Joint Transportation Reserve Unit
January 24, 2022 — The nation’s first joint reserve unit marked its 30th anniversary this fall, highlighting the success of what the Joint Staff considered in 1991 as a “prototype” for the unified commands in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The mission of the Joint Transportation Reserve Unit (JTRU) is to augment the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) in providing air, land, and sea transportation for the DoD, both in times of peace and war...

Open the door to more military career options
January 24, 2022 — Before you retake the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, think about taking the Basic Skills Education Program course first. The course is designed to help Soldiers improve their math, vocabulary and reading comprehension skills and ultimately raise their General Technical score...

‘Go for Broke’ Mortars Fly High at Pohakuloa Training Area
January 21, 2022 — The mortar platoon of the 100th Battalion 442nd Infantry (100/442) spent the second week of January conducting mortar live-fire training at PTA. The purpose of the week-long training exercise was weapons familiarization, improve platoon and squad proficiency and set the conditions for a successful battalion-wide collective training exercise during the battalion’s upcoming annual training this summer...

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