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The former top general in the Utah National Guard is suing the state’s Governor, the guard, and other officials, claiming he was forced to retire after being demoted three ranks over an accusation he calls “patently false.”
The Army demoted Maj. Gen. Michael J. Turley to lieutenant colonel when he retired this month, a service official confirmed this week, after an Army Inspector General investigation substantiated an allegation of an inappropriate relationship.

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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Electronic warfare is now getting more senior level recognition within the Army.
“The [chief of staff of the Army] in one of his recent briefs actually touched on the fact that electromagnetic warfare is a core competency,” Col. Leslie Gorman, Army capability manager for electromagnetic warfare, said during a presentation Tuesday at the TechNet Augusta conference. “The bottom line is EW is a cross-cutting function that we are observing actively every day, across every warfighting function.

Ryan Curtis is no stranger to We Are The Mighty, from hosting his entertaining series “Oscar Mike” to running a marathon for Team USO. The Army veteran has paid his dues as a filmmaker and is ready to celebrate with his debut feature film, “Hollywood Grit.”
“When his daughter vanishes from a scandalous Hollywood jazz club, a disgraced detective must battle mobsters, starlets, and his own demons to unearth the sinister truth lurking behind LA’s neon lights.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Army is designing a new universal electronic warfare capability to enable rapid updates to equipment on any platform.
The Modular Mission Payload is a concept for a standardized kit that can be integrated into platforms and allow almost any EW capability to be loaded on.
While the Army has sought in the past to go in the direction of open standards and architectures to allow for quick updates to capabilities in the face of dynamic threats, part of the need for a new universal enabling capability is the service’s divestment of several systems.

Soldiers will have the chance to attend the Army’s first official drone course to become experts in flying, building, and repairing them in combat.
Officials at the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Rucker, Alabama, announced the launch of its Unmanned Advanced Lethality Course this week. The training is just one part of the U.S. military’s recent efforts to catch up on unmanned systems, which have seen wide use on battlefields across the globe for the past decade.