Story by Eric Pilgrim | Fort Knox | 11.18.2025
Commentary about being bitten by a tick that gave the author alpha-gal syndrome, and the difficulties of living with the potentially deadly allergy....
Story by 1st Lt. John Graham | 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing | 03.14.2025
Units with 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) completed a distributed aviation operations (DAO) exercise near the U.S. Navy’s Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) at Andros Island, Bahamas Jan. 28 to March 15....
Story by Douglas Holl | Defense Health Agency | 05.15.2024
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 500,000 people in the U.S. have a serious allergic condition called alpha-gal syndrome, or AGS, also known as the red-meat allergy or tick-bite meat allergy....
Story by Pfc. Laurie Ellen Wash | 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.09.2019
The closing ceremony for Agile Spirit 19 kicked off with multinational live-fire ranges while spectators looked on in a public event to showcase the participating forces’ speed, accuracy and firepower capabilities The culmination of weeks of joint and multinational training led to the large scale live-fire range at the Orpholo Training Area in the country of Georgia on August 9, 2019....
Story by Pfc. Laurie Ellen Wash | 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.08.2019
Georgian Defense Forces stand together with soldiers from the 2d Calvary Regiment, Georgia Army National Guard, Polish Armed Forces and Bulgarian Land Forces at the Memorial of Heroes monument during a memorial ceremony at Vaziani Training Area, Georgia, Aug. 8, 2019....
Story by Pfc. Laurie Ellen Wash | 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.07.2019
Agile Spirit 2019 is a joint, multinational exercise co-led by the Georgian Defense Forces and U.S. Army Europe.
Story by Pfc. Laurie Ellen Wash | 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.03.2019
During exercise Agile Spirit 19, 1st Battalion Irish Guardsmen participated in live-fire exercises during Agile Spirit 19 at Orpholo Training Area, Georgia, on August 3, 2019....
Story by Pfc. Laurie Ellen Wash | 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.01.2019
When Agile Spirit started in 2011, there were approximately 350 Marines participating. The exercise was originally designed for small unit training in the country of Georgia between reserve Marines and the Georgian Defense Forces. Now, the annual exercise is in its eighth iteration and has grown into a joint, multinational training event with approximately 3,300 participating service......
