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A 10-year-old retired military working dog has finally been reunited with his beloved handler after more than two years apart.
In 2018, U.S. Army Sergeant Michael Fletcher, a K-9 handler, was paired with Dasty (rhymes with “nasty”), a Dutch Shepherd, while stationed at Fort Huachuca in Cochise County, Arizona – but it wasn’t love at first sight for the pair.
There was a period of adjustment and bonding and it took about three months before Dasty began to trust and listen to Fletcher, who had previously been paired with two other dogs.
Alisha Houston is a real estate professional in the Atlanta area, a West Point grad and former U.S. Army officer.
She also is a contributor to CDM’s Armed Forces Press, and The Georgia Record.
Houston talked shop with President Trump at the recent Georgia town hall for women, and asked him about foreign policy and asked him to ensure he picks non-woke generals in the future.
A force restructuring that shifted soldiers from other jobs into air defense more than doubled last year. In fiscal year 2024, 173 soldiers voluntarily reclassified into air defense positions, up from just 73 the year before, officials told Task & Purpose. The Army has specifically been prioritizing moving soldiers into long-range air defense positions over short-range, Col. Don Fagnan from Army Human Resource Command told Task & Purpose. The restructure targeted overcrowded military occupational specialties like cavalry scouts.
The Army’s chief information office is about to publish a memorandum that establishes two pilot efforts aimed at streamlining the service’s continuous authority to operate (cATO) processes, as well as lay the foundation for other programs to join in.
Speaking during a panel Wednesday at the annual AUSA conference, Army CIO Leonel Garciga said the upcoming memo — set to release in the next two weeks — will approve two continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
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Search and rescue forces were looking Wednesday morning for the two-man crew of a Navy EA-18G Growler electronic warfare fighter that crashed near Mount Rainier in Washington on Tuesday. A Navy MH-60S helicopter and other search and rescue crews launched soon after the crash to search for the crew and examine the crash site.
A Navy spokesperson told Task & Purpose Wednesday that search and rescue efforts were “ongoing.”
The Navy released no details on the crash other than that the plane went down during a “routine training missing” just after 3 p.m. on Tuesday.
General Dynamics Mission Systems has integrated its electronic warfare kit into the Infantry Squad Vehicle, the first such capability to be outfitted to the light utility platform.
The electronic warfare kit is part of the Tactical Electronic Warfare System-Infantry Brigade Combat Team, or TEWS-I, which was initially a quick-reaction capability built by General Dynamics, providing a smaller system designed for infantry vehicles.
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The Army is poised to downselect to one platform vendor for the next phase of its robotic combat vehicle program, but in the future the service may hold another round of industry competition as it looks for additional capabilities, according to a leader of the initiative.
RCVs are a key component of the Army’s next-generation combat vehicle portfolio as the service moves to acquire new unmanned systems and create “human-machine integrated formations.” The aim is to make an RCV production decision in fiscal 2027 and field to the first unit in fiscal 2028.