The great football coach Vince Lombardi said it best: “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellen
More than 6,000 U.S. and Polish soldiers will participate in a June exercise marking the U.S. Army’s gradual return to large-scale training exercises amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The exercise, named Allied Spirit, was originally scheduled for May, and it was to be linked with Defender-Europe 2020, the Army’s largest exercise in Europe in decades. Defender-Europe was largely canceled because of the pandemic.
The National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center needs your vote.
The museum, located just outside the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Georgia, is nominated in two categories of USA Today’s 2020 readers’ choice poll: Best Free Museum and Best History Museum.
The 190,000-square-foot museum is the only Army museum nominated in those categories.
“We were named Best Free Museum in 2016, and we’re determined to win again,” said retired Brig. Gen. Peter Jones, president and chief operating officer of the National Infantry Museum Foundation.
Overall capability puts the U.S. Army “in a league of its own,” but there are some capability gaps because of modernization efforts by other nations, the Rand Corp. concludes in a new report comparing U.S. systems with those of its foreign counterparts.
“No other army in the world has the same depth and breadth of capability,” concludes Rand’s paper, “Comparing U.S. Army Systems with Foreign Counterparts: Identifying Possible Capability Gaps and Insights from Other Armies.”
When soldiers with the Georgia National Guard’s 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team deployed to Afghanistan early this year, they wore the patch of the 3rd Infantry Division.
The patch change was the result of the Army’s Associated Units Program, which aligned the Guard brigade with the active-duty division for more than three years.
Senior U.S. Army enlisted members caution that increasing reliance on technology may be eroding essential soldiering skills.
At the Association of the U.S. Army-sponsored LANPAC Symposium and Exposition in Honolulu, U.S. command sergeants major warned that the advantages technology is bringing to battlefields in targeting, navigation, automation and communications take time to master, and may leave less time for training on basic soldier tasks.
Feb. 16, 2017
Infantry icon retired Army Lt. Gen. Harold “Hal” Moore Jr. will be buried Feb. 17 at the Fort Benning, Ga., post cemetery following a memorial service at the National Infantry Museum. The 94-year-old died Feb. 10 at his home in Auburn, Ala.
