Maj. Mark Rosenberg knew what to do after being given a new group of soldiers and assigned a tough job. The 12-year Army veteran didn't fall back on his extensive training in how to lead troops in combat. Instead, the artillery officer did what his family did in Florida: gather his team, which would be training Iraqi troops, around the dinner table.
BENGHAZI, Libya - Moammar Gadhafi famously surrounded himself with a personal coterie of female bodyguards during the decades he ruled Libya. But it was more a sign of his eccentricities than a real commitment to equality for women in this conservative Islamic society. Now the revolutionary forces that swept the longtime leader from power last month are offering military training to scores of women, some of them housewives, others high school teachers. On Sunday at a military compound in the eastern city of Benghazi, dozens of women with machine guns slung over their shoulders listened attentively to instructions in shooting and martial arts. They are the latest group of trainees as Libya's new leaders work to build a national army.
nAir National Guard Airman 1st Class Steven D. Niemkiewicz, 18, of Lititz, graduated from Air Force basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio. He completed the training program as an element leader and achieved honor graduate. He will spend the next seven months training on avionics systems and will be assigned to the 193rd Special Operations Group, Middletown, then continue his education at Penn State University to study engineering.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's government launched an inquiry Thursday into allegations that U.S. Marines killed two dozen unarmed civilians in the western town of Haditha, with the prime minister calling the bloodshed "a horrible crime. The probe, which also will look into other incidents involving American troops, came as the U.S. military ordered coalition troops to undergo special training in ethics and "the values that separate us from our enemies."
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Envisage Technologies, a recognized leader in first-responder, law- enforcement and military training modernization and automation, announced today that the Utah Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Academy has purchased the Learning Management System (LMS) module of the Acadis(R) Readiness Suite. Utah plans to deploy the Acadis LMS to augment the residential and skills-based training that all officers are required to complete annually, thus capturing all dimensions of an officer's lifelong learning within a unified legally defensible training record.
Pick up any newspaper or flip on any cable news network and you can't help but see something about the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. But, according to one Bedford County resident who works there, it's not all bad news. Bob Mullens, a Body Camp native and private contractor for Military Professional Resources, Inc., is leader of a 12-man team that travels around Afghanistan training the Afghan National Army to use a variety of NATO weapons, including M-16s, M-40 machine guns, automatic weapons, grenade launchers and mortars.
BAGHDAD -- The U.S. military announced the capture Saturday of an insurgent leader who was recruiting and training women, including his wife, to wrap themselves in explosives and blow themselves up -- the latest sign that al-Qaida in Iraq plans to keep using women to carry out suicide attacks. In southern Iraq, a British airman was killed in a rocket attack on a base near Basra late Friday, said Capt. Finn Aldrich, a British military spokesman.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Envisage Technologies, a recognized leader in first-responder, law-enforcement, and military training modernization and automation, is announcing today the launch of a secure, Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)-compliant learning management system (LMS). This new module, targeting high-risk training environments, has been added to Envisage's industry leading Acadis(R) Readiness Suite. The new Acadis LMS module provides a low-cost delivery vehicle for online, post-basic training courses via the internet and supports a fully blended training approach. In contrast to stand- alone LMS platforms, Acadis LMS augments residential and skills- based training management, aggregating all dimensions of lifelong learning into legally defensibl...
Military Two men with ties to Suffolk have graduated from the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps Leader Development and Assessment Course, also known as Operation Warrior Forge, at Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Wash.:
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