If you’re heading OCONUS, it might feel like you’re teetering on going broke. That’s because PCS limbo is where budgets go to die. One minute, you think you’ve planned everything perfectly. The next, you’re panic-booking an overpriced hotel because your incoming base hotel doesn’t have rooms available, swiping your card for clothes you already own but can’t access, and realizing too late that your pet’s quarantine fees just ate your emergency fund. It happens fast.
Housing delays are the biggest money pit.
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The most striking aspect of a mission that involved two B-52H Stratofortresses flying over Sweden on Tuesday was not the fact that the bombers conducted the B-52’s first live weapons drop in the country or that the two bombers flew in formation over the Swedish parliament to celebrate the country joining NATO a year ago.
No. What people will long remember about this mission is its name: Bomber Task Force mission VIKING NEBULA.
FORT IRWIN, Calif. — New capabilities will be left behind for real-world, operational use in the Pacific at the conclusion of this year’s major capstone Army exercise.
Project Convergence Capstone 5, hosted by the Army, is an experimentation venue for all the U.S. military services and key allies to train alongside each other and test concepts for integration.
The Army released a new version of its unified network plan, emphasizing the integration of zero-trust cybersecurity principles and efforts to streamline the transfer of data to better connect warfighters.
Network modernization is a top priority for service leadership. The deputy chief of staff, G-6, trumpeted the unveiling of Army Unified Network Plan 2.0 in a LinkedIn post Tuesday.
“AUNP 2.0 is new guidance on how the warfighter actually approaches, accelerates and operationalizes the unified network across the board,” Lt. Gen. Jeth Rey said in a statement.
Pentagon leaders will soon supply training materials and resources designed for acquisition officials at every level to help guide their implementation of Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new direction to speed up and standardize how the department buys software, DefenseScoop has learned.
Hegseth issued a memorandum last week mandating all Defense Department components to use the Software Acquisition Pathway (SWP) — initially rolled out under the first Trump administration — when purchasing software that supports business and weapon system programs.
What is the Strategic Defence Review and how ma
A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it. *** As America’s allies in Europe rush to adjust to the Trump administration’s foreign policy shifts, allies in Asia are also watching and considering how President Donald Trump will approach China and other security concerns in the Pacific.
A former RAF commander says Europe needs to rec
President Donald Trump on Tuesday submitted a nomination to the Senate for Michael Obadal to serve as the Army’s No. 2 official, the White House announced.
In that role, Obadal would be the Army’s chief management officer, helping oversee a budget of more than $185 billion and the manning, training and equipping of the force.
Obadal, a retired Army colonel, is currently a senior director at defense technology company Anduril, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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