Story by Airman 1st Class Jennifer Zima | 501st Combat Support Wing | 09.30.2020
A veteran British Army infantry commander, ascended one of the tallest and most dangerous mountains in Switzerland, Aug. 6, 2020, in 4.16 hours, with a total duration of 9.16 hours. Ray Hoogendijk, 423rd Force Support Squadron Outdoor Recreation (ODR) director at RAF Molesworth, England, joined six other wounded veterans to climb the Matterhorn mountain in the Alps....
Story by Col. Richard Goldenberg | New York National Guard | 11.01.2018
LATHAM – New York Army National Guard 2nd Lt. Christian Larrabee normally leads an infantry platoon in Bravo Company of the 2nd Battalion, 108th Infantry. His unit training frequently takes him to Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania or Fort Drum, New York. But in September, the Sauquoit, N.Y. resident spent two weeks leading a platoon of the British Army’s Fifth Royal Regiment of......
Courtesy Story | Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and Biological Technologies Department | 07.25.2016
If an adversary wanted to stop an army in its tracks, a chemical and biological weapon designed to incapacitate the central nervous system (CNS) would be devastating to our warfighters. With this in mind, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Joint Science and Technology Office and the French company CEA are diligently trying to improve existing medical countermeasures (MCMs) by using......
Story by 1st Lt. Dennis Whitt | Joint Multinational Readiness Center | 03.21.2014
The Bavarian Alps provided the ideal location for a mission readiness exercise that is preparing the U.S. Army's 12th Combat Aviation Brigade for deployment to Afghanistan....
