Story by Lance Cpl. Brian Bolin Jr. | 2nd Marine Division | 11.25.2024
The complexity of reconnaissance, especially from an LAV-25, requires specialized training not offered by the normal infantry training pipeline. Scouts working with LAR battalions go through Scout School, a 5-week course focusing on basic individual skills and core competencies, live-fire training, advanced skills, and team-to-squad level events....
Story by Michelle Gordon | U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command | 08.30.2024
About a month after 9/11, Chris Lanik joined the Army, a decision he said was equally rooted in service and opportunity.
Story by 1st Lt. Robert Nanna | 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit | 08.08.2024
PACIFIC OCEAN – U.S. Marines assigned to Light Armored Reconnaissance Company, Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conducted an integrated small craft action team training on the flight deck of the amphibious transport dock USS Somerset (LPD 25) in the Pacific Ocean, Aug. 8....
Story by Michelle Gordon | U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command | 05.17.2024
Shortly before he left the Army in 1999, Jason Soto met “Mr. Bill'' at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Bill helped Soto’s aviation unit blend out damage on their weapons and taught the Soldiers how to complete additional repairs not found in the technical manuals....
Story by Cameron Porter | 405th Army Field Support Brigade - Europe & Africa | 12.07.2021
Lawrence Hill is a Joint Munitions Command Logistics Assistance Representative (Quality Assurance Specialist Ammunition Surveillance) assigned to 405th AFSB’s Army Field Support Battalion Germany. He’s one of only two ammunition LARs in U.S. Army Europe and Africa, and he trains, coaches and mentors Soldiers on the proper handling, storage, movement, and turn-in of ammunition –......
Story by Cameron Porter | 405th Army Field Support Brigade - Europe & Africa | 08.05.2021
A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from the 1st Infantry Division arrived at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, Romania, safely Aug. 5 after making a precautionary landing in downtown Bucharest a few days earlier. If not for the helicopter’s crew, the aviation brigade’s maintenance team and the quick reactionary time and expert technical knowledge from Logistics Assistance Representative Cliff......
Courtesy Story | 402nd Army Field Support Brigade | 10.23.2020
Staff Sgt. Todd Cram is months away from returning to civilian life after spending the past ten years as a Soldier. While he will no longer be active duty, he is a Soldier for life, and hopes to stay in the Army family by putting his knowledge and skills with Army aircraft to good use as a Logistics Assistance Representative, or LAR as they are known around the hangars....
Story by Matt Gonzales | Marine Corps Systems Command | 01.23.2020
In December 2019, the Program Manager for Light Armored Vehicles at Marine Corps Systems Command approved the initial procurement of the TOCNET-G4 Intercom System—or G4 ICS—for use in the Family of LAVs....
