Category: Military Interest

Army policy offering up to three-year service break

By Thomas Brading, Army News Service

A retention policy offering Soldiers a chance to take a break in service while receiving pay and benefits for up to three years is now a permanent program.

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NJ Motor Vehicles chief heading to Pentagon

USMA1980 Brenda “Sue” Fulton

“Brenda “Sue” Fulton, a former Army officer who in 1980 was commissioned in the first U.S. Military Academy class to admit women, was nominated to serve in the top Pentagon post.”

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Army Wants to Automate Base Access With Facial Recognition at Drive-Thru Checkpoints

“The proposed system uses a reliable form of facial biometric identification but would need to control for variables like weather and low light.“

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Army probes missing rifle from National Guard unit deployed to the Capitol

By NATASHA BERTRAND, ANDREW DESIDERIO and LARA SELIGMAN

“The Army has dispatched its in-house criminal investigative arm to probe the potential theft of a rifle from the D.C. National Guard while the unit was training in Virginia three weeks ago, an Army spokesperson confirmed…”

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