Soldiers with the Louisiana Army National Guard were activated to support preparations and rescue operations during spring flooding in southwest Louisiana along the Red River.
The 78th Training Division's "Global Lightning" is one of the largest
training exercises in U.S. Army Reserve history; seven U.S. locations and
12,000 service members from multiple components from the U.S Army, Navy and
Air Force, along with members from numerous foreign countries.
Khaan Quest is a multinational peacekeeping operations exercise conducted in Mongolia. It consists of a United Nations Peacekeeping Mission command post exercise, a UN PKO Mission field training exercise, at the Mongolian Armed Forces' Five Hills Training Area. The exercise is designed to improve peacekeeping capabilities, strengthen military-to-military relationships and enhance the core UN...
B-52 Stratofortress and B-2 Spirit bombers deploy to Royal Air Force Fairford, England, to exercise skillsets in a forward environment. These exercises validate the vital role RAF Fairford plays in projecting the Department of Defense's strategic bomber force to other areas of responsibility.
While at RAF Fairford, B-52s from Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, will participate in BALTOPS 15 and SABER...
June 6, 2015 marks the 71st anniversary of D-Day, one of world history’s watershed moments. Mayors and civic leaders of the French Normandy region, through the U.S. Embassy in Paris, have requested U.S. participation in ceremonies to commemorate the D-Day landings and subsequent liberation of surrounding communities.
NATO will test and refine the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) during part two of Exercise NOBLE JUMP, from 9 to 19 June 2015 in Zagan, Poland.
The VJTF is being established as a part of an overall enhancement to the NATO Response Force in order to address new security challenges on NATO’s southern and eastern peripheries.
Exercise NOBLE JUMP represents the first time that...
The Army Reserve Officer Training Corps Cadet Summer Training kicked off at Fort Knox, Ky. - U.S. on June 3. CST will host nearly 14,000 cadets and active-duty and reserve Soldiers throughout the summer. CST, which will rotate through 10 Cadet Leader Course regiments and nine Cadet Initial Entry Training, is a rigorous, four-week exercise that will see nearly 9,000 cadets through graduation...
The 2015 DoD Warrior Games is an adaptive sports competition for wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans. The Warrior Games, founded in 2010, are designed to introduce wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans to adaptive sports, encourage them to stay physically active when they return to their local communities and inspire and promote opportunities for growth and...