Jack Murphy

1 week ago | audacy.com | Jack Murphy

The Department of Defense's Africa Command began its largest annual training exercise this week, called African Lion 25. Next month, training events are scheduled in Ghana, Senegal, and Morocco. Ten thousand soldiers representing 40 different nations will participate. "African Lion 25 is AFRICOM's largest multinational, combined joint exercise in Africa.

1 week ago | sofrep.com | Jack Murphy

The Canadian snipers had carefully chosen their hide site.  From an elevated position, the Special Operations sniper looked through his scope at a stationary human target leaning against a cement wall over two miles away.  The four-man sniper team had been pushing their shots out further and further into Mosul over the course of several days, taking down ISIS terrorists in long-range engagements.  Now, they were about to make history.

2 weeks ago | audacy.com | Jack Murphy

Previously known as the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program, now renamed as Soldier Borne Mission Command, is currently looking for a new home. IVAS was being developed by Microsoft as a sort of virtual reality headset that soldiers could wear, except it was more mixed reality than virtual. The headset could provide soldiers with a "heads up display" showing them mission-critical information while working in conjunction with night vision technologies.

2 weeks ago | audacy.com | Jack Murphy

It was December of 2023 when Army Master Sgt. Daniel Brooks was at a Christmas event in Germany when the unexpected happened. It was a Christmas parade in Bayreuth, Germany and he was assigned to 2nd Cavalry Regiment but was now off-duty with his friends and family. Suddenly, there was a commotion. A crowd had formed around the disturbance, and Brooks moved forward to see what was going on. What he discovered was a knife-wielding man threatening people.

3 weeks ago | audacy.com | Jack Murphy

At 5:30 p.m. on March 22, the Tennessee National Guard and the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency were alerted that there was a stranded hiker in a remote part of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. The hiker was near the trail at the Ramsey Cascades waterfall within the park, was injured, and required medical evacuation. The Great Smokey Mountains National Park covers half a million acres and receives about 14 million visitors a year.