Story by Cpl. Michael Smith | 1st Cavalry Division Sustainment Brigade | 01.17.2017
Soldiers assigned to security platoon, Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), Special Troops Battalion (STB), 1st Cavalry Division Resolute Support Sustainment Brigade (1CD RSSB), took part in a training exercise simulating an enemy attack on the Resolute Support Facility Compound at Bagram Airfield (BAF), Afghanistan, Jan. 17....
Courtesy Story | Department of War | 08.10.2015
Almost eight months after he was wounded in Afghanistan, Army Spc. Gilbert Frazier accepted the medals he earned at a ceremony on Fort Hood, Texas, surrounded by his brothers-in-arms and his wife....
Story by Staff Sgt. Terrance D. Rhodes | 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) | 02.16.2015
As the mission of Joint Forces Command – United Assistance comes to an end, there are a few more tasks that service members, deployed in support of Operation United Assistance, have to complete. The 1st Area Medical Laboratory, based out of Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, deployed as Task Force Scientist in support of OUA, is closing all four of their Ebola testing laboratories in Liberia....
Story by Staff Sgt. Terrance D. Rhodes | 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) | 12.16.2014
As service members of the Joint Forces Command – United Assistance continue the fight against the Ebola virus disease, some challenges are still present. Many Liberian roadways aren't developed to the standard of what service members are accustomed to back in America, some of them impassable with ground vehicles....
Story by Sgt. Matthew Britton | 27th Public Affairs Detachment | 12.05.2014
Specialist Shanice Wright, cook, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 36th Engineer Brigade, Task Force Rugged, Fort Hood, Texas, has been recognized as the second Service Member of the Week, Dec. 5, supporting Joint Forces Command – United Assistance and the U.S. Agency for International Disease – led mission, Operation United Assistance....
Story by Staff Sgt. Terrance D. Rhodes | 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) | 12.02.2014
Working out of shipping containers in the middle of what seems like nowhere would seem challenging to most people, but a single platoon of Soldiers works relentlessly to provide members of the Joint Forces Command - United Assistance the tools they need to be successful....
Story by Staff Sgt. Joe Armas | 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division Public Affairs | 01.11.2012
CAMP MARMAL, Afghanistan -- “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy,” said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the late civil rights leader who challenged Americans of all backgrounds to peacefully seek racial equality in the 1960s. From his famous march on Washington to his peaceful......
Courtesy Story | Department of War | 09.08.2010
Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr., traveled to Fort Hood, Texas, to dedicate a new library annex and children’s room honoring his late father....
