ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY

The VXE30 Stalker uncrewed aircraft system has been fielded for training and is slated to be used for advanced training courses, according to an Army news release.

While the uncrewed aircraft system is in use by some of the Army’s operational units, it’s now also being employed to train soldiers in advanced individual training courses at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and in the Unmanned Advanced Lethality Course at the Army Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Rucker, Alabama.

The U.S. is at an inflection point that demands a shift in robotics from a supplemental asset to a core element of warfare, according to a new paper published by the Association of the U.S. Army.

The U.S. Army Reserve is leveraging real-world exercises to build combat readiness, said Lt. Gen. Robert Harter, chief of the Army Reserve and commanding general of U.S. Army Reserve Command.

Military doctors and nurses need more hands-on patient care experience to care for troops in combat and discourage them from leaving the service because of a lack of training opportunities, according to a Pentagon inspector general report.

Transformation will be continuous for the Army far into the foreseeable future, the service’s officer in charge of operations and planning said.

Lt. Gen. Joe Ryan, deputy Army chief of staff for operations, G-3, said that as one of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George’s top four priorities, the focus on continuous transformation “falls pretty squarely in the [G-3]’s lap, so we’ve taken this on with some vigor.”

In a ceremony Oct. 2 in Austin, Texas, the Army stood up U.S. Army Transformation and Training Command as part of its effort to create a leaner, more lethal force.

The command, also known as T2COM, merges U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command and U.S. Army Futures Command. TRADOC was inactivated on Sept. 26 after more than 52 years, while the 7-year-old Futures Command was inactivated Oct. 2.

The Army has established a new skills qualification identifier for NCOs who become trained as experts in the Holistic Health and Fitness program, Army Vice Chief of Staff James Mingus said.

In remarks Sept. 24 during a Noon Report webinar hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army, Mingus explained that the Holistic Health and Fitness program, known as H2F, will now have NCO advisers “who have gone through and learned the fundamentals on how to assess, program and execute” components of the program.

Leaders at all levels of the Army must embrace the sacred trust given to them to care for their soldiers, said Gen. Gary Brito, commanding general of Army Training and Doctrine Command.