Task & Purpose

Watchdog finds high rate of serious accidents, lack of oversight, in special operations training

Special operations forces deploy around the world in high-risk missions. And the troops that fall under Special Operations Command experience a high rate of serious and sometimes deadly accidents ...
Stars and Stripes

Risky training ops for elite troops need to be studied more to help avoid deaths, injuries, GAO finds

Special Operations Command should more closely study data on training incidents and spend more time observing high-risk, noncombat operations to better mitigate accidents involving its elite forces, a ...
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Rethinking Large-Scale Combat Operations Training

Since its establishment in 1981, the National Training Center (NTC) at Fort Irwin, CA, has consistently served as the premier training ground for the U.S. Army in land and air warfare. Its ...
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U.S. Army Military Police conduct theater-level detainee operations training in South Korea

The U.S. Army Reserve's 290th Military Police Brigade and its subordinate 160th Military Police Battalion conducted Operations Lock & Key along with Eighth Army's 557th Military Police Company and ...
Jane's Information Group

China progresses flight deck operations on third aircraft carrier

Satellite imagery showing CV 18 Fujian at Jiangnan Changxingdao Shipyard in Shanghai. Markings on the deck are indicative of fixed-wing aircraft activity during sea ...