In Our Communities [10/13/2020]

October 9, 2020

A new initiative called “Frontier Teams” was announced by Joe Gallagher, civilian deputy to Fort Sill’s commanding general, at a virtual “State of Fort Sill” address hosted by the Lawton Fort Sill Chamber of Commerce Thursday…

White nationalist groups, who make up some of the most serious terror threats in the country, find new members and support in the U.S. military. Read an analysis of the extremist movements’ impact on our armed forces by The Conversation

The Department of Defense announced $600 million in awards for 5G experimentation and testing at five U.S. military test sites, representing the largest full-scale 5G tests for dual-use applications in the world. The test sites include: Hill Air Force Base, Utah; Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington; Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Georgia; Naval Base San Diego, California; and Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, Nevada…

A Mississippi Army National Guard armory was released back to the community of Purvis on Oct. 1, 2020…

The current class of cadets with the Wisconsin Challenge Academy, a Fort McCoy tenant organization, have been working for weeks to improve areas around the installation through grounds beautification, and more

The COVID-19 pandemic has derailed the Defense Health Agency’s plans of offloading approximately 200,000 TRICARE beneficiaries from treatment at military clinics, and sending them to private practitioners in the local community…

Supply chain issues have caused Hot Pocket shortages at Army and Air Force Exchanges.

Photo by U.S. Army

October 9, 2020

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