On 22 FEB 2024 COL Frank Rubio will be awarded the Army Astronaut Device by the Secretary of the Army. Following his ceremony, LTC Rubio will participate in a variety of media engagements at the Pentagon.
NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Landing and Recovery team and the Department of Defense are conducting a recovery test for the crewed Artemis II mission aboard the amphibious transport dock USS San Diego (LPD 22) off the coast of San Diego. Underway Recovery Test (URT) 11 is the eleventh in a series of tests and the first time the DoD and NASA completed a full recovery simulation with the...
Exercise Cutlass Express (CE) is one of three African regional “Express” series exercises sponsored by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and facilitated by U.S. Naval Forces Africa/U.S. Sixth Fleet (NAVAF/SIXTHFLT). CE, including CE 2024 (CE 24), is designed to train NAVAF forces while advancing AFRICOM Campaign Plan Lines of Effort.
CE 24 will enhance our relationships with East African...
The Dry Dock 5 Anchoring Ceremony is to celebrate an early construction milestone, marking the installation of the piles that will anchor the foundational footprint of Dry Dock 5 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility. This is the first graving dock built in Pearl Harbor since 1943 and the highest value single construction project in the history of the Navy. The new...
8th Forward Resuscitative and Surgical Detachment conducts Jungle Medicine training at the Lightning Academy Feb. 2024 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
A collection of information pertaining to the people, labs, and work done at AFRL.
BTF Europe provides U.S. and NATO leaders with strategic options to assure, deter and defend against adversary aggression against the Alliance, throughout Europe and across the globe. Regular and routine deployments of U.S. strategic bombers provide critical touch points to train and operate alongside our Allies and Partners while bolstering our collective response to any global conflict. By...
Exercise Dynamic Front is a U.S. Army Europe and Africa directed, 56th Artillery Command led, multinational exercise designed to improve allied and partner nation's ability to execute multi-echelon fires, and test interoperability of both tactical and theater-level fires systems in a live environment.
