Story by Christy Graham | Fort Polk Public Affairs Office | 06.19.2020
FORT POLK, La. — Throughout June, C Troop, 3rd Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment is conducting in-class and field training with the latest in night-vision goggle (NVG) technology. The new equipment, the enhanced night vision goggles-binoculars (ENVG-B), not only provides an all-around upgrade in clarity, but also comes with thermal vision capabilities, augmented reality with heads-up display......
Story by OR-7 Janek Bagirov | Estonian Defense Forces Headquarters | 09.26.2017
173-rd Airborne Brigade Combat team was training with soldiers from Estonian 2nd brigade. Different scenarios were carried out between US and Estonian platoons....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Kevin Hartman | 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 03.04.2013
It’s mid-day at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, and while many soldiers with Division Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, haul their duffel bags, or as they call it the “bag-drag,” to temporary housing where they’ll await a flight home, their commander, U.S. Army Col. James Davis, looks over the remaining awards and evaluations needing his signature before he......
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Kevin Hartman | 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 03.04.2013
“I’m here to help,” said U.S. Army Lt. Gen. James Terry, commander of the International Security Assistance Force Joint Command. “I need to find out what the challenges are.”...
Story by Spc. Alex Amen | 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 02.15.2013
High in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan lies Combat Outpost Wilderness, where the appropriately named COP is home to 3rd Platoon, Troop A, 1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade “Rakkasans," 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)....
Story by Staff Sgt. Anna Rutherford | 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 01.24.2013
A small helicopter idles on a flight line, ready to fly. The rotor blades slap the icy afternoon Afghanistan air. Through the pilot’s side door looms the formidable shadow of a beast, breathing furiously, waiting to be unleashed into flight....
Story by Spc. Brian Smith-Dutton | 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs | 01.13.2013
Members of the Afghan National Army and Afghan Uniformed Police partnered with soldiers of 2nd Platoon, Troop C, 1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team "Rakkasans," 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), while conducting a foot patrol in mountains of Nadir Shah Kot district, Khowst province, Afghanistan, Jan. 12, 2013....
Story by Sgt. Daniel Stoutamire | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division Public Affairs | 11.29.2012
It starts off pretty innocuous — a little “Thunk!” as Pfc. Jordan Hayes drops in a long-range training mortar round into a 1064A3 120-mm mortar tube — but moments later the area around him erupts with sound as the round leaves the tube on its journey to its target, up to 7,200 meters distant....
