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Mere weeks after being named the chief information security officer for the Defense Department, Katie Arrington was announced Monday as the Pentagon’s official “Performing the Duties of the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer.”
The DOD Office of the CIO announced the move by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to place Arrington as the acting CIO in a post on LinkedIn. The post also confirmed that Leslie Beavers, who had been acting CIO since John Sherman left the role last June, will return to her primary role as principal deputy CIO.
“In this capacity, Ms.

If you’re looking for a fun, adrenaline-packed date night that’s actually exciting, it’s time to head to the gun range.
Military spouses know that shooting isn’t just a skill. It’s an experience. And whether you’re both range regulars or your service member is the expert and you’re just there to show off your sharpshooting skills (or learn them), a gun range date is hands-down one of the most fun ways to mix things up.

Officer Candidate School, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1944

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has renamed Fort Moore to it’s original honored status as ‘Fort Benning’.
The post is now named after CPL Fred G. Benning who served with honor in WWI, instead of Fort Moore, after Hal Moore of Vietnam fame.
After hearing from many soldiers of the United States Army today, we can say the force is overjoyed.
Fort Bragg was also brought back to its original name after woke policies changed it to Fort Liberty.
Many a paratrooper has earned his wings at Fort Benning.

Researchers and engineers at IBM are hustling to build out a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum supercomputer by 2029, according to a senior executive steering that work.
In the process, the team is generating cutting-edge devices that can no longer be modeled with classical computing architectures. And the company recognizes the U.S. government’s need for quantum-safe security measures.
“The next [four to five years are] probably going to be the most exciting time in quantum computing.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Fort Moore, Georgia will once again be named Fort Benning, but this time it will honor Army Cpl. Fred G. Benning, who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his heroism during World War I.
“This change underscores the installation’s storied history of service to the United States of America, honors the warfighter ethos, and recognizes the heroes who have trained at the installation for decades and will continue to train on its storied ranges,” Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot said in a statement.

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — While a top priority for Army leaders, countering unmanned systems on the battlefield is presenting challenges and lagging behind other key modernization initiatives, according to the commander of the 101st Airborne Division, one of the service’s most elite and storied units.
“I’ll be very upfront with you, the counter-UAS piece is moving very slowly. That portion of it is one that has the chief of staff and the Army’s attention, and he is very aggressively getting after that,” Maj. Gen.

For thousands of transgender troops in the United States military, the first two months of 2025 were nerve-wracking as they waited to find out whether or not their careers were over.
Air Force Master Sgt. Alexandria Holder has served as an Arabic cryptologic language analyst — one of the hardest-to-fill and in-demand positions in the military — for over 20 years and is now a flight chief for the Air Force’s 3rd Intelligence Squadron at Fort Eisenhower, Georgia.

This is Chapter 7 in the Wellness Memoir. Catch up here.
When the deployment and surgeries were finally over, I faced a new chapter: recovery, reintegration and finding balance again. The lessons I learned about my health required me to change my habits. After 12 months apart, my husband and I had each been on separate journeys while also staying united through the long separation of deployment. We came back together as two changed people.
I was so excited for my husband to come home. His return had been the goal I was living to reach.

Opinion by John Rosenberger, Colonel, USA, Retired

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As President Trump and President Putin negotiate a lasting peace between Russia and Ukraine in the weeks ahead, the outcome now is indisputable. We, the U.S. and NATO, lost our proxy war in Ukraine, a war that will go down in history as one of our worst foreign policy disasters, even worse than our ignominious withdrawal from our 20-year war in Afghanistan.
Hundreds of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are dead, and even more are wounded and maimed.

In the wake of cuts to federal research funding, a Navy veteran diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer will not be able to receive an experimental treatment that he says extended his life after doctors gave him “weeks” to live in 2020.
“As of right now, I cannot receive the same drugs that I received before, the ones that saved my life,” Kyle Lewis, who served in the Navy from 1999 to 2003, told Task & Purpose. “A lot of the tumors, lesions on my organs are all still there and this drug has sort of been keeping them at bay.