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National Defense July 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Trying to Catch Up With Demand for Gear The U.S. Army has budgeted at least $3 billion for the next five years to equip soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with new combat gear, ranging from helmets, gloves and boots to satellite receivers, radios and advanced rifle sights.
AskMen.com Kevin Neeld	Army Physical Readiness The U.S. Army recently tweaked the same workout they'd used for 30 years.
National Defense April 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Technologies Rushed to War: And Then What? Hasty deployment of specialized military equipment to forces under fire in Iraq and Afghanistan have saved the day more than once for Army troops. But much work remains to be done in offering spare parts, manuals and other important follow-on services.
National Defense February 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Training to Shift Emphasis to Dismounted Soldier The Army's training programs have been too vehicle-centric and have not focused enough on the dismounted soldier, particularly in urban combat. That will change in the future, said Brig. Gen. Stephen Seay, Army program executive officer for simulation, training and instrumentation.
InternetNews May 25, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Soldiers React to Blogging 'Ban' Are soldiers losing out on their first amendment rights? A controversy continues to stir over new rules restricting soldier's creation of blogs.
National Defense November 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	In Search of Better Ways To Provide for Soldiers The Pentagon spends $80 billion a year on logistics, and yet fails to help soldiers solve seemingly easy problems.
National Defense September 2006 Robert H. Williams	Training curbs combat skid mishaps Skid training device looks to curb injuries and deaths caused by skid driving conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Defense April 2009 Matthew Rusling	Army Helicopters Brace For Afghanistan Buildup The upcoming buildup of U.S. forces in Afghanistan will put additional pressure on the Army's already overstretched helicopter fleet, officials said.
National Defense September 2004 Frank Colucci	Army Depends Heavily on National Guard Aviators If predictions that Army National Guard aviation units are not likely to see mass resignations prove to be accurate, it would be good news for the Army, which is struggling to meet growing demands for rotary pilots in Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Defense November 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Equipment Choices Shaped by Afghanistan War While the Obama administration ponders a future strategy for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, the Army is rushing to buy new combat equipment especially suited to that nation's high altitudes and tough terrain.
National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	$2B Database to Keep Tabs on Army Stocks Seeking to manage a rapidly growing inventory of war equipment, the Army is spending nearly $2 billion on a new database that will track 3.4 billion items.
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Downplaying Concerns About Overstressed Force Seeking to slow down momentum on Capitol Hill to increase the size of the Army by at least 20,000 troops, top service officials recently offered a surprisingly upbeat outlook on troop retention and recruiting.
National Defense October 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Army to Extend `Rapid Fielding' Effort for War-Bound Units, Domestic Needs The Army continues the ramp-up of equipment deliveries in order to meet the requests from units rotating into Iraq, and to appease critics in Congress.
National Defense October 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Vice Chief: 'We Have to Speed Up How We Procure Things' The Army's antiquated ways of buying new equipment are depriving soldiers of the latest technology and making it more difficult for them to do their jobs, says Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli.
National Defense December 2013 Dan Parsons	Future of Rapid Equipping Force Remains in Doubt In Afghanistan, U.S. troops wanted robots to search caves where fighters were hiding. The Rapid Equipping Force found a commercial robot called the PackBot, outfitted it with a camera and sent it downrange in a matter of weeks.
National Defense January 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Shifting Aviation Focus From Unmanned to Manned The role of Army helicopters in Iraq as combat workhorses has bolstered the notion that rotary-wing aircraft, for most missions, are unlikely to be replaced by unmanned vehicles.
National Defense January 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	In the Army, Why Can't Soldiers Be Customers? Nowhere do companies find it more difficult to concentrate on true customer needs than in the Army procurement system.
National Defense August 2004 Roxana Tiron	Army Will Boost Supply of Small Cal Ammo, Weapons Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are consuming small caliber ammunition at rates the U.S. Army has not seen in years.
National Defense July 2007 Robert H. Williams	Humvee Gunners Garner More Potent Shield An improved humvee gun turret is offering combat soldiers greater protection from improvised explosive devices and small arms fire, while offering enhanced situational awareness.
National Defense April 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Industrial Depots Prepare for Surge The Army's maintenance depots may have to rapidly ramp up their capacity so they can fix up to 40,000 trucks and combat vehicles that could be returning from Iraq in the next several years.
National Defense February 2004 Roxana Tiron	Precision Systems Let Helos Land in Sandstorms, Snow The U.S. Army will start retrofitting its helicopters with sensor kits that would allow aircraft to operate in brown-out and white-out conditions, a problem that has plagued pilots in Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Defense August 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Brigades Will Deploy With Hundreds More Trucks The Army is expanding its logistics and transportation operations as part of a broader reorganization intended to field combat brigades that can operate independently, without the support of higher echelons.
National Defense October 2004	Army Trying to Get Better Grasp on War Zone Intelligence Under the banner of "every soldier is a sensor," the Army is pushing the notion that ground troops are primary sources of valuable battlefield intelligence.
National Defense October 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Soldiers' Backpacks Not Likely to Get Any Lighter While most military gear has become lighter over the years, essentials such as food, water, and ammunition still weight soldiers down.
National Defense October 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Security Policies Deny Soldiers Access To Critical Information, Army Contends The Army's latest advances in networking technology are being slowed by security policies that restrict soldiers' access to information.
National Defense January 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Logistics Reforms Aim to Fix Supply Bottlenecks A team of logistics experts from the U.S. Transportation Command and other agencies will be heading to Iraq this month, in an attempt to break long-standing logjams in the distribution of supplies to forward-deployed units.
National Defense August 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Soldiers Benefit From `Rapid Fielding' Mentality Among the organizations that really have pulled out all the stops to get needed technology to the field quickly is the Army Research Development and Engineering Command.
National Defense December 2011 Harvey M. Sapolsky	Army Acquisition: Not Broken and Not Fixed The U.S. Army is prone to considerable introspection, and when it comes to reflecting upon its acquisition experience, which it does frequently, it is almost never happy.
National Defense October 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Should Think Twice Before It Cuts Ground Forces, Historians Warn In the wake of every conflict since World War II, ground troops have been declared obsolete. And each time, the prognosticators have been wrong, says military historian John C. McManus.
Popular Mechanics October 26, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Why Helicopter Missions in Afghanistan are Unusually Dangerous Helicopter accidents in Afghanistan claimed the lives of 14 Americans today.
National Defense July 2004	Army, First Responders Getting the Hook Soldiers and first responders soon will get the hook, literally. In this case, the hook is an Army Natick Soldier Center-designed device that will be used to scale walls and buildings and board boats.
National Defense December 2009 Grace V. Jean	Army to Create Education Programs for Soldiers Who Are Too Busy to Go to School Repeated deployments have kept soldiers away from schoolhouses. But the Army still believes there are ways to provide learning opportunities outside of the traditional education system.
Popular Mechanics February 5, 2010 Joe Pappalardo	Are Iran's New Anti-Helicopter Missiles A Real Threat to Apaches? An Iranian colonel this week spoke publicly about a "special weapon" that was tailor-made to destroy U.S. Apache attack helicopters.
National Defense July 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Washington Pulse Army Nearing Breaking Point... Third Rotation Into Iraq Begins in September... War Stress Mounting in the Marine Corps... `Security of Supply' Treaties Exclude Vaccines, Fuel...
Defense Update Issue 1, 2005	Operation Iraqi Freedom C 4ISR Lessons Learned Operation Iraqi Freedom was the first major military operation conducted under the newly introduced US Army Net-Centric Warfare (NCW) doctrine.
National Defense October 2011 Grace V. Jean	Army Deploying Robotic 'Mule' To Troops in Afghanistan The Army is deploying an unmanned ground vehicle to troops in Afghanistan for a several-month long evaluation in combat operations.
National Defense January 2013 Valerie Insinna	Army, Marine Corps Look for MRAP Protection Products Quickly produced during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle has earned accolades for saving thousands of soldiers' lives and has been criticized for its $45 billion program cost.
National Defense April 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Changes on the Way for Army Logistics Ops The Army is not organized to rapidly set up a base of operations and launch a major campaign from an area that does not already have basic infrastructure.
National Defense April 2006 Sandra Erwin	An Army Under Stress: A Tale of Two Green Lines An upcoming decision on whether to begin drawing down U.S. troops in Iraq sets the stage for yet another round of inside-the-Beltway wrangling on the burdens this war is piling on the armed services.
National Defense July 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Wrangling Over Future Combat Systems Raises Larger Questions A contentious bout of budget drills on Capitol Hill this year featured the Army's top brass mounting a passionate defense of its prized Future Combat Systems.
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Urban Battles Highlight Shortfalls in Soldier Communications The chaotic door-to-door warfare seen in Iraq offers glaring proof that dismounted U.S. troops need better communications devices, experts contend. When radios failed, soldiers resorted to the only available and reliable form of communication: screaming.
National Defense January 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell	President's Perspective Among the hard-learned lessons of the wars that U.S. forces have been fighting for the past three years is the importance of having a military procurement system that is responsive to the needs of troops on the front lines.
National Defense October 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Army to Deploy Web-Based Intelligence Network The Army will soon begin deploying a "joint intelligence operations capability" in Iraq -- a web-based catalog of information that soldiers at the battalion level can access from high-speed workstations.
National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Troops in The Digital Age, Disconnected As surprising as it may seem in today's wired culture, troops in combat zones do not have easy access to information.
National Defense February 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Soldiers on the Move Have Yet to Profit From Information Age Army combat brigades during the past two years have been outfitted with the latest communications and networking technology. But the improved connectivity has yet to filter down to the small mobile units below the battalion level.
DailyCandy December 12, 2006	Onward Christmas Soldiers Want to help a soldier this season? Anysoldier.com has wish lists and contact info for nearly 4,500 servicemen and -women.
National Defense April 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Junior Leader Training Emphasizes Fast `Thinking' in Defeating Guerillas To better prepare junior officers and sergeants to fight urban guerillas, the Army is adopting a new training philosophy, one that is designed to "develop leaders who can think."
National Defense April 2011 Eric Beidel	Army Shifts Focus to Dismounted Soldiers Army leaders say soldiers are the service's greatest weapon, and they are asking industry to shift their focus from platform to person and consider the infantryman first as it plans investments in new technology.
National Defense April 2005	Washington Pulse The cost of equipping soldiers has escalated dramatically since the beginning of the war in Iraq... Pentagon unhappy about leaked memo... Turf feud between the Air Force and the Army on how best to destroy targets on the ground continues... etc.
Reason December 2004 Jeff A. Taylor	Rant: War of Addition Tearing thousands of men and women out of civilian life and sending them to battle signals more than a nation at war. It reveals a nation at a crossroads.