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Army sergeant found guilty in spree of barracks break-ins, rapes and attempted murder

1 day ago | taskandpurpose.com | Patty Nieberg

An Army sergeant who terrorized women living in the barracks at Fort Cavazos, Texas for over a year and a half was found guilty this week of dozens of violent crimes, including rape, attempted premediated murder, and kidnapping. Sgt. Greville Clarke was convicted Tuesday by an enlisted panel at his Fort Cavazos court martial of 29 charges for crimes against five women in 2021 and 2022.
How sensory cues can help ‘burdened’ drone operators

1 day ago | taskandpurpose.com | Patty Nieberg

Have you ever turned down the radio while you were driving to see better? While seeing and hearing are two very different senses, in that kind of situation, your brain is working to process the audio and visual stimuli at the same time.. “It’s cognitive processing that’s happening. Even if it’s in the background of your awareness, that makes it a little bit more challenging to do what the task at hand is,” said Heath Jones, a research neuroscientist for the Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory.
Army cuts athletic trainers from fitness teams, with medics to take up slack

2 days ago | taskandpurpose.com | Patty Nieberg

The Army is cutting certified athletic trainers from the fitness training teams across the service, Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Jim Mingus said Tuesday, replacing them with strength coaches. But regular medics might get extra training to deal with fitness-related injuries when the trainers are gone. The overall goal, he said, was a fitter, stronger Army. “We will not have arrived until we have a no-neck Army,” Mingus joked.
End of the 'yeet': the standing power throw is out as new Army fitness test goes ‘sex-neutral’ for combat jobs

3 days ago | taskandpurpose.com | Patty Nieberg

The Army announced two major changes to its fitness standards Monday: soldiers in 21 combat jobs will have to pass a gender-neutral test, while the standing power throw — occasionally called the ‘yeet’ event — will be thrown out for all soldiers. The move rebrands the Army Combat Fitness Test as the Army Fitness Test and will become the service’s “test of record” starting June 1.
Fort McCoy garrison commander's suspension 'not related to misconduct'

3 days ago | taskandpurpose.com | Jeff Schogol |Nicholas Slayton

Col. Sheyla Baez Ramirez was suspended as garrison commander of Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, on April 18, according to a statement from the U.S. Army Reserve. “This suspension is not related to any misconduct,” Monday’s statement reads. “The Army Reserve has no further details to provide.”Fort McCoy has an identical statement posted on its website.
80 years ago, American soldiers captured the center of Nazi Germany

4 days ago | taskandpurpose.com | Nicholas Slayton

Eight decades ago, U.S. Army soldiers raised the American flag in the center of Nuremberg. They stood atop a bunker adorned with Nazi symbols, now in the hands of Allied forces after five days of fierce urban combat. By April 1945, the invasion of Germany was well underway. After crossing the Rhine River, American soldiers were pushing forward. Soviet troops were already well into Germany, and both forces were moving towards Berlin.
US military to pull more than 1,000 troops out of Syria

5 days ago | taskandpurpose.com | Nicholas Slayton

The United States will cut its presence in Syria by half in the coming months, the Department of Defense announced on Friday. The U.S. military will bring the number of troops inside Syria to under 1,000 in the coming months in a “consolidation” effort, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement on April 18. The move comes after “significant steps” made in the fight against ISIS. For several months the Pentagon had said that there were only approximately 900 U.S. troops inside Syria.
Army announces latest unit rotations, including soldiers from Lithuania heading home

5 days ago | taskandpurpose.com | Patty Nieberg |Nicholas Slayton

The Army announced the latest rotation of units in Europe and the Middle East, including the return of a combat team that lost three of its soldiers in a Lithuanian training accident last month. The 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Calvary Division from Fort Cavazos, Texas will replace the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Stewart, Georgia.
How much of a threat are Chinese hypersonic missiles to U.S. Navy ships and sailors?

6 days ago | taskandpurpose.com | Jeff Schogol

China has “the world’s leading hypersonic missile arsenal” that can threaten U.S. Navy ships, according to the Defense Department’s most recent report on Chinese military power. Hypersonic weapons fly at between five and 10 times the speed of sound, and their ability to change course mid-flight makes it difficult to shoot them down.
U.S. war against the Houthis grinds on. Tell me how this ends.

6 days ago | taskandpurpose.com | Jeff Schogol

Happy Friday! It’s been more than a month since the U.S. military resumed attacks against Houthi rebels in Yemen, and the endgame is still unclear. The Defense Department has not detailed the number of strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen since March 17, when Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell told reporters that the operation would not be “an endless offensive.”“There is a very clear end state to this operation,” Parnell said.