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Shoot, move, and communicate are the basics of combat. The “move” requirement, however, can be extremely difficult in the snow; just ask anyone unlucky enough to get stationed at Fort Drum.
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With its increasing emphasis on Arctic warfare, the U.S. military is starting investing in existing snowmobiles across the services while adding a new model to expand capabilities.
To provide mobility and logistics of light units in snowy regions, the U.S.

The Defense Department this week announced the winners of the second “Gauntlet” competition under its Drone Dominance Program, the Pentagon’s signature effort to ramp up the U.S. military’s arsenal of small unmanned aerial systems.
Since its inception last year, the program has been primarily focused on evaluating and procuring large quantities of low-cost, one-way attack drones for the military, with the goal of rapidly fielding them across the force. The department aims to acquire more than 200,000 UAS across several phases of the initiative by 2027.

Earn the hat, get a stripe.
The Army said Friday that soldiers who qualify as drill sergeants — the campaign-hatted instructors who sternly welcome new recruits into the Army — will automatically be promoted to the rank of staff sergeant when they complete training for the job.
Soldiers must be sergeants — the E-5 pay grade in the Army — to volunteer for drill sergeant duty. Service as a drill sergeant is generally a three-year tour away from a soldier’s primary job in the Army.

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As artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons increasingly shape the battlefield, military chaplains are considering how AI’s growing use will weigh on the morality and spirituality of service members.
Earlier this month, some chaplains in U.S. Army Europe and Africa attended a conference aimed at navigating the moral or spiritual impacts of military missions increasingly intertwined with AI. The training covered the dissociation of flying first-person-view drones in combat and how automated systems could leave troops less time to consider the moral consequences of their actions.

The first F-35A fifth generation fighters built for the Finnish Air Force have arrived in the country, marking a major milestone in the service’s modernisation of its combat aviation capabilities. The delivery further marks the beginning of a major shift in the balance of power in the air in Northern Europe, with the Air Force scheduled to receive 64 F-35A fighters to replace its fleet of obsolete F-18C/D Hornet fourth generation fighters.

BAE Systems OneArc has received a contract from the US Army to integrate its Embedded Collective Training (ECT) solution onto a platoon of combat vehicles stationed at Fort Hood, Texas.

As the elevator doors closed, Willette Alston’s heart broke.
In September 1993, Alston handed her 13-month-old son, William, to her father and prepared to enter rehabilitation for a crack cocaine addiction. As they said their goodbyes, the toddler reached out with both arms for his mother and pleaded in his limited vocabulary for them not to go.
As she turned her back, Alston cried. So many years later, she still can hear the sounds of her son’s screams through the elevator doors.
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Christopher Stone, RealClearDefense
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