Story by Gail Davis | Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division | 08.08.2025
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s White Sands Detachment bid farewell to its outgoing officer in charge (OIC) and welcomed its new OIC, a native of New Mexico, at a change-of-charge ceremony on Aug. 1 at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico....
Story by Teri Carnicelli | Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division | 07.01.2024
Rocketry experts from Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s (NSWC PHD) White Sands Detachment in New Mexico successfully conducted the first U.S.-based flight of the Hypersonic Test Bed (HTB), a maneuvering glide vehicle designed to provide a common platform for hypersonic experiments....
Story by Maj. Brian Sutherland | 4th Infantry Division Public Affairs Office | 03.20.2024
As space operations grows within the Department of Defense (DoD) and the U.S. Army, the 1st Space Brigade located at Ft. Carson, Colo. continues to build and develop its tactical space capacity. Recently, the 1st Space Brigade attended Project Convergence at White Sands, Ariz. in February 2024 where they tested their miniaturized tactical space system mounted on small tactical vehicles. In a......
Story by Ashley Calingo | Program Executive Officer Land Systems | 07.13.2022
The Marine Corps’ Medium-Range Intercept Capability prototype successfully hit several simultaneously-launched cruise missile representative targets during the live-fire test at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico June 30, 2022. The MRIC prototype provides Marine Corps point defense in an expeditionary package. The system is just one of several initiatives critical to Force Design......
Story by Master Sgt. Ryan Matson | 652nd Regional Support Group | 03.06.2020
The 1209th Medical Company (Area Support), New Mexico National Guard, brought the Bataan Memorial Death March with them to Powidz, Poland, on March 6. The 1209th is mobilized to Poland in support of Atlantic Resolve, and with the Bataan Memorial Death March in White Sands, New Mexico, recently canceled due to the Coronavirus breakout, the march in Poland may be the lone event commemorating the......
Story by Maj. Brandon Mace | 412th Theater Engineer Command | 04.04.2019
The U.S. Army Reserve 383rd Quartermaster Battalion, headquartered in El Paso, Texas, conducted a readiness focused field training exercise April 4 - 7, 2019, in Dona Ana, New Mexico. Time is always a challenge for the Army Reserve as traditional drilling Soldiers only conduct their military duties one weekend a month with fourteen to twenty nine additional training days to use sometime during......
Story by Staff Sgt. J.D. Strong II | 377th Air Base Wing | 03.19.2019
Members of Team Kirtland and more than 8,600 runners and marchers participated in the 30th Annual Bataan Memorial Death March, at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., March 17, 2019. The Bataan Memorial event is a march through the high desert terrain of White Sands in honor of the heroic service members who defended the Philippine Islands during World War II....
Story by Sgt. Christopher Hernandez | Mobilization and Deployment, DPTMS Fort Bliss | 12.20.2018
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. – Roaring down a concrete road not far from the base of the Organ Mountains, two M1142 Tactical Fire Fighting Trucks hastily position themselves away from the downed helicopter set ablaze. The roof turrets from each truck discharge streams of pressurized water onto the flames, and firefighters adorned in structural bunker gear and self-contained breathing......
