The Georgia Army National.Guard's 78th Aviation Troop Command provide air support and aviation training with the U.S. Marine Corps at the U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center at Bridgeport, California. Tough and realistic training in remote locations ensures the Georgia Army National Guard provides ready and relevant forces to our active-duty partners both in the state of...
Photo and video coverage of TRADOC’s Best Squad Competition 2023. Imagery products are uploaded daily throughout the competition, August, 2023.
The Invictus Games are an international sporting competition for wounded, injured and ill service members and veterans. Team U.S. competitors represent wounded, ill and injured active duty and veteran military members from the United States Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard and Special Operations Command. Fifty nine athletes of Team U.S. have trained for years to...
The AFIMSC Combat Support Training Ranges initiative expands multi-functional training opportunities for installation and mission support Airmen to practice for future adaptive operations and agile combat employment in contested environments and austere locations. The sites will be equipped with high-demand training assets often not available at a unit’s home station.
The Integrated Defense Leadership Course is an intensely focused, two-week, hands-on training program for Air Force Security Forces Defenders to achieve and maintain combat readiness. The IDLC is based at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, and uses training grounds at nearby Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center.
Exercise BRIGHT STAR 2023 is a multilateral U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) command-post exercise, field training exercise and senior leader seminar, held with the Arab Republic of Egypt and other partner nations. Participation strengthens military-to-military relationships between U.S. forces and our Egyptian partners in the Central Command area of responsibility, as well as other...
Cope Taufan provides an excellent opportunity to improve combined readiness and interoperability between the U.S. and Malaysia. This large force employment exercise can include operations in air superiority, airborne command and control, close air support, interdiction, air refueling and tactical airlift and air drop.
Lloyd J. Austin III is the 28th secretary of defense, sworn in on Jan. 22, 2021. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., Austin served 41 years in uniform, retiring as a four-star Army general after three years as commander of U.S. Central Command.The defense secretary oversees the Defense Department and acts as the principal defense policy maker and advisor.
