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HQ, 7th Infantry Division, as Combined Joint Task Force – 7, assumed responsibility for Train, Advise and Assist Command – South in Afghanistan, June 10. An NCO from the 101st Airborne Division and a Soldier from the 16th Military Police Brigade were named XVIII Airborne Corps NCO and Soldier of the Year. FORSCOM in the news Public Affairs units in action 13th Public Affairs Detachment - Spc. Tomas DeJesus-Perez, 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, leads the students of Goleniow Junior High School in a squat challenge, June 8, 2015, at the Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area, Poland during exercise Saber Strike 15. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Brandon Anderson) The Army University The U.S. Army is reorganizing its education enterprise into a university structure that will maximize educational opportunities for Soldiers by providing valid academic credit for the education and experience they receive while on active duty. The Army Chief of Staff led birthday events in New York’s Times Square as the U.S. Army marked its 240th birthday highlighting service and sacrifice of Soldiers. I Corps conducted a farewell ceremony on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, June 10, to honor a Canadian general who served as the deputy commanding general. The Deputy Commanding General (Support) of the 101st Airborne Division, bid farewell June 11 during an honor eagle ceremony on Fort Campbell, Ky. FRONTLINE U.S. Army Forces Command June 19, 2015 | Volume V, Issue 23 “Today, as we pause to celebrate the 240th birthday of our Army, we should rightfully reflect on that incredible legacy of selfless service that has been handed down generation after generation from Washington and his fellow patriots to us.” – John M. McHugh Secretary of the Army June 11, 2015, Pentagon Senior Leaders A legacy of selfless service On Point Online Conduct - Think, Type, Post The U.S. Army defines online conduct as the use of electronic communications in an official or personal capacity that is consistent with Army Values and Standards of Conduct. Online misconduct is the use of electronic communication to inflict harm. Electronic communications is considered the transfer of information (signs, texts, images, sounds, or data) transmitted by computer, phone or other electronic device. The Army has initiated a campaign to educate and inform the Army Family on the proper use of electronic communications. By Randy Murray, FORSCOM Public Affairs FORT BRAGG, N.C. (June 12, 2015) - U.S. Army Forces Command and U.S. Army Reserve Com- mand celebrated the Army’s 240th birthday with a cake-cutting and tribute to the Army’s history, selfless service and professionalism at their Mar- shall Hall headquarters. “The Army was the first branch of the service,” FORSCOM Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Jimmie Jaye Wells said. “In fact, before we were a country, we had the Army. Before we had the Constitution, we had the Army.” Wells then briefly summarized the historic events in the spring of 1775 that led the Second Continental Congress to establish and support an Army, most especially the April 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. He noted the Congress essentially “adopted” the New England militias as the basis of the new Army, then voted to raise $2 million for support of forces around Boston and New York. They also approved a draft to establish rules and regulations for the government of the Army. As he was speaking, Wells unveiled a portrait depicting militia Capt. John Parker and about a dozen more Minutemen standing in Boston Com- mon, weapons in hand. It was during a stand-off with British forces at Boston Commons that led to -- “the shot heard around the world.” After a long, hard fight and with help from the French and others, the British army was defeated at Yorktown, Va., in October 1781. Sgt. Maj. Benny Dobbs, FORSCOM G-3/5/7, Chief Warrant Officer 5 Mary Colburn and Spc. Gabriel Stillman, later joined Wells for the of- ficial cake cutting with a traditional Army saber. Colburn and Stillman represented the longest- serving and shortest-serving FORSCOM Soldiers, with Colburn having now served 38 years and Stillman having served 18 months. Sgt. Maj. Benny Dobbs, Chief Warrant Officer 5 Mary Colburn, Spc. Gabriel Stillman and Maj. Gen. Jimmie Jaye Wells prepare to cut the Army’s birthday cake with a traditional Army saber, June 14, 2015, in the Marshall Hall headquarters of U.S. Army Forces Command. (U.S. Army photo by Randy Murray) FORSCOM, USARC salute Army’s 240th Birthday
Transcript of FORSCOM in the news U.S. Army Forces Command FRONTLINE · mand celebrated the Army’s 240th...
HQ, 7th Infantry Division, as Combined Joint Task Force – 7, assumed responsibility for Train, Advise and Assist Command – South in Afghanistan, June 10.
An NCO from the 101st Airborne Division and a Soldier from the 16th Military Police Brigade were named XVIII Airborne Corps NCO and Soldier of the Year.
FORSCOM in the news
Public Affairs units in action
13th Public Affairs Detachment - Spc. Tomas DeJesus-Perez, 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, leads the students of Goleniow Junior High School in a squat challenge, June 8, 2015, at the Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area, Poland during exercise Saber Strike 15. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Brandon Anderson)
The Army University The U.S. Army is reorganizing its education enterprise into a university structure that will maximize educational opportunities for Soldiers by providing valid academic credit for the education and experience they receive while on active duty.
The Army Chief of Staff led birthday events in New York’s Times Square as the U.S. Army marked its 240th birthday highlighting service and sacrifice of Soldiers.
I Corps conducted a farewell ceremony on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, June 10, to honor a Canadian general who served as the deputy commanding general.
The Deputy Commanding General (Support) of the 101st Airborne Division, bid farewell June 11 during an honor eagle ceremony on Fort Campbell, Ky.
FRONTLINEU.S. Army Forces Command
June 19, 2015 | Volume V, Issue 23
“Today, as we pause to celebrate the 240th birthday of our Army, we should rightfully reflect on that incredible legacy of selfless service that has been handed down generation after generation from Washington and his fellow patriots to us.”
– John M. McHugh Secretary of the Army
June 11, 2015, Pentagon
Senior Leaders A legacy of selfless service
On Point
Online Conduct - Think, Type, Post The U.S. Army defines online conduct as the use of electronic communications in an official or personal capacity that is consistent with Army Values and Standards of Conduct. Online misconduct is the use of electronic communication to inflict harm.Electronic communications is considered the transfer of information (signs, texts, images, sounds, or data) transmitted by computer, phone or other electronic device. The Army has initiated a campaign to educate and inform the Army Family on the proper use of electronic communications.
By Randy Murray, FORSCOM Public Affairs
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (June 12, 2015) - U.S. Army Forces Command and U.S. Army Reserve Com-mand celebrated the Army’s 240th birthday with a cake-cutting and tribute to the Army’s history, selfless service and professionalism at their Mar-shall Hall headquarters.
“The Army was the first branch of the service,” FORSCOM Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Jimmie Jaye Wells said. “In fact, before we were a country, we had the Army. Before we had the Constitution, we had the Army.”
Wells then briefly summarized the historic events in the spring of 1775 that led the Second Continental Congress to establish and support an Army, most especially the April 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts.
He noted the Congress essentially “adopted” the New England militias as the basis of the new Army, then voted to raise $2 million for
support of forces around Boston and New York. They also approved a draft to establish rules and regulations for the government of the Army.
As he was speaking, Wells unveiled a portrait depicting militia Capt. John Parker and about a dozen more Minutemen standing in Boston Com-mon, weapons in hand. It was during a stand-off with British forces at Boston Commons that led to -- “the shot heard around the world.”
After a long, hard fight and with help from the French and others, the British army was defeated at Yorktown, Va., in October 1781.
Sgt. Maj. Benny Dobbs, FORSCOM G-3/5/7, Chief Warrant Officer 5 Mary Colburn and Spc. Gabriel Stillman, later joined Wells for the of-ficial cake cutting with a traditional Army saber. Colburn and Stillman represented the longest-serving and shortest-serving FORSCOM Soldiers, with Colburn having now served 38 years and Stillman having served 18 months.
Sgt. Maj. Benny Dobbs, Chief Warrant Officer 5 Mary Colburn, Spc. Gabriel Stillman and Maj. Gen. Jimmie Jaye Wells prepare to cut the Army’s birthday cake with a traditional Army saber, June 14, 2015, in the Marshall Hall headquarters of U.S. Army Forces Command. (U.S. Army photo by Randy Murray)
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Above Soldiers from C Company, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, conduct combined arms live-fire exercises at Fort Campbell, Ky., June 3, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joshua Dwyer)
Left Sgt. John Culqui, 1st Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, works on the tail rotor of a OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter, June 3, 2015, on Marshall Army Airfield at Fort Riley, Kansas. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael Leverton)
Left Troopers with the 1st Cavalry Division Horse Cavalry Detachment stand by as Soldiers with 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, arrive, June 5, 2015, at Robert Gray Army Airfield, West Fort Hood, Texas. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Brandon Banzhaf)
Right Paratroopers assigned to 307th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, descend onto Nijmegen Drop Zone during a proficiency jump at Fort Bragg, N.C., June 9, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Mary S. Katzenberger)
Above Secretary of the Army John McHugh, U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno, and Sgt. Maj. of the Army Daniel A. Dailey, cut the Army Birthday cake during the 2015 Army Ball in Washington D.C., June 13, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by John G. Martinez)
