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The M10 Booker was meant to be a light tank — if it was a ‘tank’ at all — but Army officials admitted this week “we got the Booker wrong.
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By LTG Tom McInerney USAF (Ret), MG Paul E Vallely US Army (Ret)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week ordered a broad restructuring of the U.S. Army that will trim the number of generals, merge headquarters commands and prioritize drone swarms needed to counter China’s growing military. Hegseth directed Army leaders in a memorandum Wednesday to streamline force structure and overcome “parochial interests” to rebuild the military’s largest branch.
All soldiers can expect to do more push-ups, and women in combat jobs will have to pick up the pace in a two-mile run as much as three minutes faster, under the Army’s new fitness requirements.
“There are a couple of age brackets where your minimum run time, you might have to run about 30 seconds faster in order to pass. There are a couple of areas where you’ve got to do more hand-release push-ups,” Command Sgt. Major Stephanie Carl told Task & Purpose.
The Army released new score cards Friday that lay out the requirements of the new ‘sex-neutral’ standards announced last month.
The Army has officially killed further delivers of the M10 Booker, canceling not just a billion-dollar program to build a heavily-armed vehicle for fast-moving infantry units, but also putting a final answer to an age-old question: is the M10 Booker a tank?
“Now that we’re canceling, you can call it whatever,” Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told reporters Friday, confirming the program’s end.
Cancelling the Booker matches one element of an overhaul ordered by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in how the Army develops and buys weapons.
Former senior defense officials issued stark warnings to lawmakers Thursday about intensifying threats posed by unattributed drone incursions and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) reported around the U.S. — particularly over military bases, assets, and nuclear facilities.
As the Army continues defining its role in the space domain, the service has established an enlisted military occupation specialty (MOS) for soldiers specializing in providing space-based capabilities on the battlefield.
The new MOS 40D will comprise “a couple of hundred” non-commissioned officers that will be trained and deployed by Army Space and Missile Defense Command, SMDC Commander Lt. Gen. Sean Gainey told reporters Friday during a media roundtable.