Story by Carden Hedelt | Marine Corps Systems Command | 09.02.2014
For Marines running roadblocks and vehicle check points, identifying an oncoming vehicle as a threat is a decision that has to happen quickly and at standoff range because lives are on the line. A new system being fielded to II and III Marine Expeditionary Forces, Reserve Units and Marine Corps Forces Central Command will give Marines more certainty when distinguishing friend or foe....
Story by Amanda Neumann | Defense Logistics Agency | 04.01.2014
A new system for granting installation access will scan and verify the identification cards of personnel entering Defense Logistics Agency installations, security officials in DLA Installation Support said....
Story by Sgt. JaredJ Gehmann | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 12.13.2013
District leaders promised to improve security to 25 village elders Dec. 11 during a shura in Ab Band District, Ghazni province....
Story by Staff Sgt. Cody Harding | KFOR Regional Command East | 08.05.2013
The mission of the NATO-led Kosovo Forces is to maintain a safe and secure environment and ensure freedom of movement throughout Kosovo. When achieving one goal hampers the other, however, local residents will let their opinions be heard. It then falls upon KFOR to help resolve the situation by meeting with members of the local community, evaluating the situation and planning a course of......
Story by Staff Sgt. Jecca Geffre | Colorado National Guard | 07.03.2013
The Colorado National Guard’s Space Cowboys found themselves on a different type of deployment in June.
Story by Staff Sgt. Jecca Geffre | Colorado National Guard | 07.03.2013
First Lt. Justin Cowan, chaplain, said he knew the day he walked out his door in early June to see huge plumes of smoke – the beginnings of the West Fork Complex fire – there was a possibility the Colorado National Guard would be called to help his community....
Story by Staff Sgt. Kristen Duus | 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division | 06.02.2013
Southern Afghanistan in June is no stranger to temperatures rising well into triple digits. Despite the domineering sun, soldiers persevere, continuing missions day after day, until the mission is complete....
Story by Spc. Margaret Taylor | 129th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 04.24.2013
The Khyber Pass, one of the most well-known portions of the historic Silk Road trade Route through South and Central Asia, has been of military commercial significance for centuries....
