Reports from AUSA Aviation Symposium (01/14/2008)
Aviation Remains Top Priority as Army Transforms
Latest Helicopters are Easier to Fly
Unmanned Aircraft Accident Rate Down 50 Percent
Computer Simulations’ Role Adds New Technology Dimensions
Improving Existing Platforms Gives Army New Technologies
Aviation Brigade Reconfigured for the Fight
Aviation Needs Continued Funding for Maintenance, Parts
Aviation Modernization Programs are Essential
Keep Talking with Industry for New Technologies, Innovations
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Army announces re-stationing details for 6 new BCTs, 8 support brigades and other units
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AUSA Presents $1 Million for National Army Museum
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Army to launch Logistics Branch January 1 (12/14/2007)
The Army plans to develop a corps of multifunctional logisticians starting at the captain level with creation of the Logistics Branch beginning January 1.
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AUSA needs your support in breaking congressional deadlock over emergency defense spending bill
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Nomination Season Opens for 2008 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award
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AUSA Legislative Agenda Calls for Growing Size of Force, Predictable Funding to Restore Army’s Balance (11/09/2007)
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AUSA Chapters 2008 Resolution Voting (10/22/2007)
AUSA Chapters may vote between 9:00 AM EDT, Monday, Oct. 22, through noon, Monday, Nov. 5, on the 2008 AUSA Resolutions addressing the challenges facing the Army as it fights the global war on terrorism.
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Lt. Gen. Julius Becton's address at George C. Marshall Dinner (10/16/2007)
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Video of Secretary Robert Gates Address at Sustaining Member Luncheon (10/15/2007)
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General George W. Casey, Jr.'s Eisenhower Luncheon Address at AUSA Annual Meeting (10/15/2007)
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Secretary of the Army Pete Geren's Key Note Address (10/15/2007)
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Parents of fallen soldiers tell of coping with wartime deployments, loss (10/12/2007)
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Marshall Award recipient: ‘Education is everybody’s business’ (10/11/2007)
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Army initiatives to improve quality of life for soldiers and families (10/11/2007)
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Gates: Challenge of absorbing lessons of Iraq, keeping edge in conventional warfare (10/11/2007)
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Chief called ‘champion’ of Army business transformation (10/11/2007)
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Making Army Reserve operational force critical, challenging (10/11/2007)
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Army Reserve tops recruiting goal, doing well with retention (10/10/2007)
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Casey identifies four imperatives for the Army's future (10/10/2007)
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Army initiatives to improve quality of life for soldiers and families. (10/10/2007)
The Army is undertaking a variety of initiatives to improve the quality of life for soldiers and their families, officers involved in the programs said.
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Army and Army National Guard agree to rebalance force structure and resources (10/10/2007)
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Army chief of staff introduces Family Covenant Initiative (10/10/2007)
“We’re committed to providing a strong supportive environment where families thrive,” said Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff, speaking to more than 400 attendees at a Family Forum of the Association of the United States Army’s Annual Meeting in Washington. During the session Casey unveiled a new initiative called the Army Family Covenant. Its goal is to provide more meaningful support to Army families.
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Experts discuss community-centered resources designed to help spouses and children cope in wartime (10/10/2007)
Mrs. Patty Shinseki, the wife of the former chief of staff, opened the second AUSA Family Forum by introducing Living in the New Normal, ™ a multi-partner initiative borne out of the Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC), a family program that also seeks to support the goals of the Army Family Covenant.
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Noncommissioned education programs being thoroughly updated (10/09/2007)
The Army’s Noncommissioned Officer training and education programs are getting a thorough update to make them more relevant to soldiers who are deployed more frequently and have less time for training, and who also want to get civilian college credit for their military education.
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LTG William Caldwell IV introduces Contemporary Military Forum on leader development (10/09/2007)
“Learning how to think” not “what to think,” is a change sweeping through intermediate officer education with implications in educating junior officers, warrant officers, noncommissioned officers and civilians, said Lt. Gen. William Caldwell IV, commanding general of the Combined Arms Center in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., in opening a Contemporary Military Forum on leader development.
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Winners of the soldier and noncommissioned officer of the year announced at Annual Meeting (10/09/2007)
A noncommissioned officer from The Old Guard and a Ranger were named Army NCO and Soldier of the Year, respectively, after competing in the 2007 Best Warrior Competition at Fort Lee, Va.
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Army Secretary Pete Geren speaks on "balance" of today's forces at Annual Meeting and Exposition (10/09/2007)
Army leaders promised Oct. 8 that the force is not facing irrecoverable harm despite the stresses caused by the ongoing missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
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Commander, U.S. Army, Europe, Gen. David McKiernan identifies 5 stressors on Army (10/09/2007)
Addressing the Association of the United States Army’s Corporate Member luncheon Monday, Gen. David McKiernan identified five “stressors” that the Army faces as it moves towards a future, reset, transformed state.
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Army on track in implementing medical plan (10/09/2007)
The Army is on track to implement its Army Medical Action Plan (AMAP) and will have a full brigade devoted to healing wounded soldiers stood up by January, officers involved in the plan said.
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Reports from the AUSA Fires Symposium (09/28/2007)
Metz: ‘We are in a very Dangerous War’
Army Relies on Space for Command, Control and Integration
Air Defense, Field Artilleries Become Fires Center at Fort Sill
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Brig. Gen. Elizabeth P. Hoisington Dies (08/23/2007)
First Woman’s Army Corps General Officer
Brig. Gen. Elizabeth P. Hoisington, U.S Army, Ret., the first woman from the Woman’s Army Corps (WAC) to be promoted to the rank of brigadier general three years after Congress authorized the promotion of women to that Army rank died Aug. 21. She was 89.
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Department of Defense Announces 2007 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award Recipients
The Department of Defense announced the 2007 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award recipients. The Freedom Award is the highest recognition given by the U.S. Government to employers for their outstanding support of their employees who serve in the National Guard and Reserve.
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Your Soldier, Your Army now Available in Spanish!
AUSA’s Institute of Land Warfare has published a Spanish-language version of the popular book Your Soldier, Your Army, titled Su Soldado, Su Ejército: Guía Para Padres.
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AUSA President Calls Geren Confirmation Important Step Toward Continuity of Leadership
The president of the Association of the United States Army said the Senate confirmation of “Pete” Geren as the 20th secretary of the Army July 13 was an important step toward providing continuity of senior leadership for the service.
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Reports from AUSA Medical Symposium and Exposition (07/03/2007)
Peake: Army has Revolutionized Medical Care – Warrior Care
Mental Health Issues Should Not be a Stigma
Walter Reed will be ‘Best Hospital in the World’
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July Issue of ARMY Magazine Contains Special ‘Hooah Guide to Counterinsurgency’ Report (06/28/2007)
The July issue of ARMY Magazine offers another in its special “Hooah Guides” reports, this time on counterinsurgency warfare, prepared by its award-winning senior staff writer, Dennis Steele.
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AUSA President Reminds Hill that National Defense is Shared Responsibility (06/27/2007)
The president of the Association of the United States Army expressed his concern over language in the Senate’s version of the defense authorization bill about directing the Army to add 20,000 new soldiers a year to meet today’s needs “is not reflective of reality.”
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New Release by AUSA's Institute of Landwarfare: Army Medical Action Plan (PDF)
"Army Medical Action Plan" (Defense Report 07-2, June 2007) examines the Army’s initiative to develop a sustainable system wherein wounded, injured and ill Soldiers are medically treated and vocationally rehabilitated and the needs of operational units and Soldier and their families are jointly met.
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Grantham University and GX® magazine Offer $1.8 Million in Scholarships to Army National Guard Soldiers (06/13/2007)
Grantham University, specializing in educating working adults, announced it is offering Army National Guard Scholarships.
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New AUSA Volunteer Leaders Receive Training on Chapter Operations (06/11/2007)
Twenty-nine chapter presidents came to the Association of the United States Army’s headquarters for a weekend of training in early June.
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Army Reviews BRAC Process, Plans to Execute on Schedule (06/08/2007)
Speaking at the monthly Association of the United States Army Institute of Land Warfare breakfast in suburban Washington, Lt. Gen. Robert Wilson said, the Army is reviewing where it stands in the BRAC process now, but “we intend to execute BRAC on time.”
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AUSA Recognizes Rhode Island’s Reed as ‘Outstanding Legislator’ (06/06/2007)
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., selected as the Association of the United States Army’s Outstanding Legislator
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AUSA President Names Scanlan as Director of Industry Affairs (06/05/2007)
The president of the Association of the United States Army has named Michael Scanlan director of industry affairs.
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Transforming and Sustaining on the 21st Century Battlefield
by Richard A. Hack, Lieutenant General, USA Ret.
Remarks presented at the AUSA Logistics Symposium Dinner on 16 May 2007.
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Reports from AUSA Logistics Symposium and Exposition
New command improves communications for logistics movement
Transportation school adapting to changing requirements from field
Schools continue to transform in time of war
Officer training has also undergone a transformation
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Army Reserve Needs Community-Based Support to Recruit Warriors (05/23/2007)
Lt. Gen. Jack Stultz, chief of the Army Reserve, speaks at the Heritage Foundation.
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GLAC AUSA Symposium to take place in Long Beach, CA (05/17/2007)
On 31 May and 1 June, the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the Association of the United States Army will present "C4 and Space – Enabling Boots on the Ground”.
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Army Ten-Miler Sold Out (05/14/2007)
Army Ten-Miler Sold Out. Race registration is closed.
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Army Needs Predictable Flow of Resources to Operate (05/10/2007)
The acting secretary of the Army told several hundred attendees at AUSA’s monthly Institute of Land Warfare Breakfast in suburban Washington that the Army “needs a predictable flow of resources” in urging Congress to act quickly on the president’s supplemental spending request for Fiscal Year 2007.
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Geren: We Made Decisions That Did Not Hold Up (05/10/2007)
Acting Army Secretary Pete Geren, who served in Congress for eight years and was a member of the House Armed Services Committee, spoke before several hundred attendees at the Association of the United States Army’s Institute of Land Warfare breakfast on Thursday.
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Over 22,000 Runners Register for 23rd Army Ten-Miler (05/07/2007)
26,000 Runner Cap will be Reached Soon
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Opening Remarks at the Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Airland Subcommittee
The opening statement of Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., at the April 25 hearing of the Senate Armed Services Airland Subcommittee details many of the challenges facing the Army now and in the future.
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Army Reserve is 99 – 41 Soldiers Re-Enlist on USAR Birthday (04/24/2007)
The chief of the Army Reserve said the day’s events showed him that “soldiers are willing to stick with us in this long war.”
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AUSA President Addresses Health Care Issues for Military Retirees (04/23/2007)
The president of the Association of the United States Army told the chief of staff of the Army’s Retiree Council “The hottest issue is DoD’s proposed increases to TRICARE costs” for retirees under 65.
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April 23rd Marks the 99th birthday for the Army Reserve
U.S. Army Reserve 99th Birthday Message – 2007
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Reports from AUSA Installations Symposium and Exposition
Deadlock over supplemental and impact reminiscent of 2006
Army needs to add soldiers, gain larger share of defense budget
SMA: New rotation policy creates stability, predictability
Processing wounded warriors has been significant challenge
Operational side of the Army can teach business side how to be ‘agents of change’
Army presented case to DoD in request for more money to prosecute wars
Civilian Education System tied to Army leadership development
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Guardsmen, Reservists can now Request USERRA Assistance Online
Members of the National Guard and Reserve can now request assistance online from Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve ombudsmen for employment issues arising from military service or mobilization.
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Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker's Farewell Address
Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, 35th Chief of Staff of the United States Army, wrote a farewell message before transitioning responsibility to Gen. George W. Casey, Jr.
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General Casey Discusses his new Role
Gen. George W. Casey, Jr., addresses the Army family after becoming the Army's 36th chief of staff.
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Ten-Miler Registration Opened April 2 to a Record Breaking Sign Up (04/03/2007)
Opening day registration for the 2007 Army Ten-Miler set an all-time high record with 5,808 runners signing up for this year’s 23rd annual run.
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Becton will Receive AUSA’s George Catlett Marshall Medal (03/27/2007)
Lt. Gen. Julius W. Becton Jr., USA, Ret., soldier, combat commander, administrator, educator, public servant, government leader and role model will receive the 2007 George Catlett Marshall Medal – the highest award presented by the Association of the United States Army.
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PricewaterhouseCoopers, New Balance are Ten-Miler Major Sponsors (03/26/2007)
Army Ten-Miler officials have announced that PricewaterhouseCoopers and New Balance have signed on as Major Sponsors for the 2007 race.
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The Guide for Returning Service Members
Soldiers – active, Army National Guard, Army Reserve – are being called on to protect freedom all over the world and deployed overseas for long periods of time. What happens when your service to the nation ends, and you are transitioning back to civilian life?
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Reports from AUSA Winter Symposium and Exposition
- Army investment account ‘needs a big bump up’
- Technology advances making a difference in soldiers’ lives now
- Army is in largest equipment building period in U.S. history
- Medical advances dramatically reduce killed in action rate
- Organization focuses on ‘trying to change the gray matter’
- Secretary presents AUSA with ‘Coin of the United States Army’ for serving soldiers, families and the Arm
- TACOM changes the way it does business
- TRADOC working hand in glove with operational force
- AMC adopted civilian practices to its business practices
- TRADOC looks at new ways to communicate with young people
- 9/11 changed focus of Special Operations Command
- FCS will tailor balance between offense and defense
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Panel Calls for new National Guard Bureau Charter -- Making Chief a Four-Star Position (03/06/2007)
The chairman of the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves recommended that Congress and the administration rewrite the charter of the National Guard Bureau, make the bureau’s chief a four-star officer and fix the responsibility on the Department of Homeland Security with the assistance of the Defense Department in determining what the military needs to provide civil authorities in times of emergency.
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Army Strength, Budget Must be Increased
“The real issue” facing the Army is “what is the readiness of the next to be deployed,” the Army’s G-8 told attendees at the March 1 Association of the United States Army’s Institute of Land Warfare breakfast in suburban Washington.
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The Military Coalition Testifies before House Committee
In a hearing this week before the House Armed Services Committee Personnel Subcommittee, The Military Coalition, a group of 35 military, veterans and uniformed services organizations of which AUSA is a member, provided testimony on many issues affecting the uniformed services community.
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2006 Army Athletes of the Year Selected (02/23/2007)
Awards, recognizing the accomplishments of the three soldier-athletes, will be presented at the Association of the United States Army’s Winter Symposium and Exposition in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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Army Hospital Upgrades Healthcare Services for U.S. Service Members (02/22/2007)
Speaking to a group of journalists at the Pentagon recently, a Walter Reed Army Medical Center official said hospital personnel continue to make strides in providing care to service members and bettering themselves as administers of healthcare.
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Walter Reed Army Medical Center Taking Steps to Improve Outpatient Care (02/21/2007)
The steps that Walter Reed Army Medical Center has taken to improve command and control and accountability of all outpatients and communications with them and their families are appropriate and necessary to provide these soldiers and marines with the care they need and deserve.
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Walter Reed Outpatient Care (02/20/2007)
The Association of the United States Army wants to share this Fact Sheet provided by Army Public Affairs on Walter Reed Army Medical Center Out-patient Care, Facilities.
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Restoring Base Closing Money Critical To Army Plans (02/06/2007)
“This is absolutely critical for us,” two Army officials said about having Congress restore $2.5 billion to this year’s budget to pay for base closings and relocations (BRAC).
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Army Seeks $130.1 Billion Budget and $83.4 Billion for War on Terrorism Next Year and an Additional $45 Billion to Cover War Costs this Year (02/06/2007)
The Army is seeking $130.1 billion in its regular budget request for Fiscal Year 2008, an additional $83.4 billion to pay for the global war on terrorism for the coming fiscal year, and $45 billion to cover war costs in the current fiscal year.
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British Deputy Commander Offers Unique Perspective on Iraq (02/02/2007)
Lt. Gen. Graeme Lamb CMG DSO OBE is the deputy commanding general for the Multi-National Force-Iraq. He is also the UK’s Senior Military Officer in the country. Based in Baghdad, he frequently operates around the country. Here he gives his thoughts and an honest appraisal of Iraq's unfolding story.
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Stan Brock Named West Point Head Football Coach - Ross Announced his Early Retirement (01/29/2007)
The United States Military Academy at West Point announced at a press conference Jan. 29 that Stan Brock has been named head Army football coach succeeding Coach Bobby Ross who announced his retirement from coaching earlier in the day.
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Reports from AUSA Aviation Symposium and Exposition (01/19/2007)
- New Technology Increases UAVs use in Theater
- Old, Reliable Chinook Gets New Look, Advanced Technology
- Guard, Reserve Aviators Provided Critical Relief Support
- More Funds Needed for Aviation Science, Technolgy
- Apache Helicopters Improved for Attack, Reconnaissance Missions
- Light Helicopter First to Use Off-the-Shelf Technology
- Kiowa Still in the Fight as Army Develops New Warriors
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ESGR Looking for Few Good Employers (01/16/2007)
The National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), in conjunction with the Secretary of Defense, announced nominations will be accepted at the ESGR website for the 2007 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Awards.
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Cody: We are on the Topside of the Curve (01/10/2007)
“’O7 is a very, very important year for us," the vice chief of staff of the Army told several hundred attendees at the Association of the United States Army’s Institute of Land Warfare Breakfast Jan. 10 in suburban Washington.
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AUSA President Hails Selection of Casey as Chief, Petraeus as Commander in Iraq (01/08/2007)
The president of the Association of the United States Army praised the recommendations of Defense Secretary Robert Gates to name Gen. George Casey as the next Army chief of staff and Lt. Gen. David Petraeus for promotion to general and to succeed Casey as commander of the Multi-National Force Iraq.
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2007 Army Ten-Miler Capped at 26,000 Runners (01/03/2007)
Army Ten-Miler officials announced recently that the runner cap for the 2007 race will be raised to 26,000 runners.
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