Welcome to your new duty station, where the coffee is burnt, the traffic is confusing, and the base housing Facebook group will both save and destroy you.
You’ve PCS’d, unpacked 60% of your boxes, cried in at least one parking lot, and now you’re wondering: how does anyone make friends, find the good wine, or get their kid into the not-terrible preschool?
Pour a beverage and settle in. Here’s your insider guide to playing it smart (and maybe a little smug) at your new stomping grounds.
Rule #1: Befriend the girl with the spreadsheets
You know the one.
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A bipartisan pair of lawmakers on the Senate Armed Services Committee recently proposed legislation that would formally recognize off-site drone pilots involved in combat missions and expand their access to mental health care and other services after retirement.
The Combat Action Recognition and Evaluation (CARE) for Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) Crews Act seeks to establish a “status identifier” for pilots of uncrewed systems who participate in combat operations to increase their access to services they earned.
A Marine general will take over as the top military leader at the U.S. Naval Academy for the first time in the school’s 180-year history, replacing the first woman to hold that position.
Marine Lt. Gen. Michael J. Borgschulte, who played linebacker on the school’s football team in the late 1980s, will be the first Marine officer to serve as the superintendent of the Navy’s premier undergraduate officer training school in Annapolis, Maryland, Task & Purpose confirmed Friday. Borgschulte will replace Navy Vice Adm. Yvette M. Davids, who took the position in January 2024.
On 27 January 2025, President Trump made good on his campaign promise and officially ended DEI in the military by signing two Executive Orders. Titled “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness” and “Restoring America’s Fighting Force,” they were self-explanatory and were to be implemented immediately by the Secretary of Defense.
After working through the specifics and a fixing some mistakes that were made, the SECDEF superficially appeared to have resolved the DEI problem. Then, additional cases of DEI-embracing personnel emerged.
U.S. Army Special Operations Command, or USASOC, has warned of a potential terrorist threat against retired “senior officials” who worked for the Defense Department, served in Syria and Iraq, and currently live in Florida, Lt. Col. Allie Scott, a spokesperson for the command, confirmed on Friday.
The New York Times first reported about the warning. Scott confirmed the “Duty to Warn” notification from USASOC’s Provost Marshal Col. Mark A. Katz that has been widely shared on social media is authentic.
“It’s a credible threat,” Scott told Task & Purpose.
D&M Holding has reached an agreement with the UDI to establish a joint venture (JV) to produce ammunition propellant in the US.
Poland has selected Allison Transmission to supply its 3040 MX cross-drive transmissions for the nation’s Borsuk IFV programme.
Jeff Schogol, Task & Purpose The SMASH 2000L fire control system is designed to track moving targets, and the Marines hope to use it against small drones.
Christopher Jacobs, Federalist
Our country cannot get its fiscal house in order unless and until it starts slowing the explosion of Medicare spending.
Spencer Neale, The American Conservative
In the six months since Trump began his second term in office he has hemmed and hawed and complained and lashed out against both Putin and Ukraine’s…