Author: Michael

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — Maj. Gen. Patrick Ellis will be the next commander of 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colorado.
The move is significant as 4th ID is slated to be the primary experimental unit for the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control as that system aims to scale up to division level.
NGC2 is one of the the Army’s top modernization priorities.

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Brandon Pugh has been selected as the Army’s principal cyber adviser, according to a LinkedIn post.
Pugh, who will be the third person to hold that role, most recently was director and a resident senior fellow for the R Street Institute’s Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats team. Additionally, he is an Army reservist serving as a national security law professor at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, having previously been a paratrooper as well.

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Picturing a sky full of drones over their head, American sailors and Marines teamed with troops from the Latvian Army this month to turn a clearing in the woods into a network of trenches designed specifically to survive attacks from above. 
Naval Combat Engineers, or Seabees, from Naval Construction Battalion 14 and Marines from the 8th Engineer Support Battalion took part in an exercise in Skrunda, Latvia, to quickly build and reinforce trenches. It was meant to hone their ability to make a defensive position capable of withstanding attacks from enemy drones.

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