ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY

he Association of the U.S. Army is issuing a Call to Action for its members because of serious disagreements with some provisions of the Senate version of the 2016 defense policy bill. The Senate’s 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, S.

John McHugh will be remembered for more than just being the second longest-serving Secretary of the Army.In his 6½ years in office, he has shown a deft touch for dealing with soldiers and their families in often difficult times, and was a strong advocate for soldiers before Congress, where his warnings about pain and risk facing the Army were ne

A one-day employment forum was held Wednesday at Fort Riley, Kan., sponsored by the Association of the U.S. Army, to help military spouses develop portable careers and learn how to hunt for a job no matter where their family may be stationed. This was the third family forum hosted by AUSA this year.

A combination of technological advancement and development of junior leaders is responsible for success in Army sustainment, expert panelists said Wednesday at a forum hosted the Association of the U.S. Army’s Institute of Land Warfare. More advancement and more development will be needed in the future, panelists said.More than 200 U.S.

President Barack Obama paid tribute to two World War I soldiers, Pvt. Henry Johnson and Sgt. William Shemin, by awarding them the Medal of Honor Tuesday, nearly a century after they served during the Great War.“We are a nation—a people—who remember our heroes,” Obama said.

A biography in the Association of the U.S. Army’s Book Program has just won its fourth award. Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne was written by Army Col. Douglas V. Mastriano, a military historian who teaches at the U.S.

Army families may need to act quickly to guarantee availability to one of the biggest family benefits: the ability of a soldier to share earned Post-9/11 GI bill benefits with a spouse or children.The Senate Armed Services Committee’s recent report on the 2016 defense budget contains a warning that transfer rights, now widely available to anyone

Defense policy bills taking shape in Congress provide little hope in preventing the Army from dropping to 475,000 active-duty soldiers by the end of fiscal year 2016. The House and Senate Armed Services committees have both accepted an Obama administration plan to reduce active, Army Guard and Army Reserve end strength.

LANPAC 2015 wrapped up Thursday with a pledge from the Association of the U.S. Army’s president to continue pressing the importance of landpower in the Pacific and elsewhere.“This was a very rich, very productive conference,” said retired Army Gen. Gordon R.

Interoperability – a phrase coined during the Cold War to talk about the U.S. being able to work with European allies on common defense – has gained new interest as a result dramatic technology gains and efforts to widen U.S. influence and partnerships into areas such as the Indo-Asia-Pacific region, Lt. Gen. Stephen R.