by ADC | Mar 17, 2023 | Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base, Snap of the Week
Cohen Allen, a Jefferson High School freshman, lays in the boom-pod of a KC-135 Stratotanker during a tour at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, March 14, 2023. Students with Jefferson High’s Kingsman Academy met pilots, boom operators and maintainers with the 6th Air...
by ADC | Mar 9, 2023 | Congress/DoD, Energy, In Our Communities, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base, Russia-Ukraine
At least two Ukrainian military pilots are in Tucson, Arizona for what a defense official called a “familiarization event for U.S. and Ukrainian pilots,” Newsweek reported. They are training on an F-16 simulator…. Fort McCoy, Wisconsin had an economic impact of more...
by ADC | Mar 8, 2023 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, Defense Communities National Summit, Housing, Infrastructure, Military Families, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth on Tuesday outlined ways communities can help with some of the Army’s biggest challenges, including recruitment, child care and housing. Here are excerpts of her remarks from a mainstage conversation with ADC President Karen Holt...
by ADC | Mar 8, 2023 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, Defense Communities National Summit, Energy, Military Families, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, OLDCC, On Base, Recruitment
Here are some of the other notable moments from Tuesday’s Defense Communities National Summit programs. “You can’t solve problems if the fence gets in the way,” Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation Director Patrick O’Brien said of his office’s focus...
by ADC | Feb 27, 2023 | Congress/DoD, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base
The Army recently celebrated its fiscal year 2022 Community Partnership Award winners in a special ceremony, available to watch online. “The Army has been able to create countless partnerships with local communities that improve Army quality of life initiatives as...
by ADC | Feb 6, 2023 | DCIP, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, OLDCC, On Base
The DOD Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation will host a webinar Feb. 16 at 3 p.m. EDT for states and communities interested in the Defense Community Infrastructure Program (DCIP). The event will be a pre-proposal webinar, OLDCC said in an announcement, which...
by ADC | Jan 23, 2023 | In Our Communities, Infrastructure, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base
In a “handing over” ceremony, Colorado state leaders recently transferred the titles for 640 acres of land to Schriever Space Force Base, according to a press release. “It’s imperative that the Department of Defense has full control over lands that house...
by ADC | Jan 20, 2023 | Military Families, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base
Food insecurity is a bigger issue for service members’ families than it is for their peers, even when compared to civilians who make less money than they do, as Army Times wrote in its analysis of a RAND study requested by Congress. “While food insecurity is a problem...
by ADC | Jan 17, 2023 | In Our Communities, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base
A new memorandum of understanding between Fort Irwin, California and Barstow Community College will help prepare students for jobs at the installation, especially child youth assistants and barbers, according to a DOD story…. The U.S. government has returned to the...
