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Three Soldiers at the National Training Center and Fort Irwin are a part of 225 brevet promotions, a move the Army hasn’t done in more than a century. Brevet promotions are temporary promotions in which officers of a junior grade can serve one grade higher, wear the rank, and are paid at the higher grade when assigned to a critical position. https://www.aerotechnews.com//three-ntc-officers-a-part-o/

On This Date, Dec. 11, 1972: Apollo 17's lunar module landed on the moon with astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt aboard; they became the last two men to date to step onto the lunar surface. For more aerospace and aviation milestones, visit https://www.aerotechnews.com/?s=on+this+date

On This Date, Oct. 31, 1955: The TF-102A made its first flight, piloted by Richard L. Johnson. The trainer featured side-by-side seating and relocated air intakes, which gave the jet a very different appearance and inferior performance from the F-102A interceptor. For more aerospace and aviation milestones, https://www.aerotechnews.com/blog/2020//30/on-this-date-31/

Years of budgetary indifference has severely impacted military aviation causing a degradation of readiness and tragically a loss of lives. https://www.aerotechnews.com//air-safety-panel-recommends/

On This Date, Oct. 31, 1945: Two P-80As equipped with remote control equipment arrived at Muroc Army Airfield for instrumentation. The jets were to be used in dive demonstrations. For more aerospace and aviation milestones, https://www.aerotechnews.com/blog/2020//30/on-this-date-31/

On This Date, Oct. 31, 1941: The Navy destroyer USS Reuben James was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Iceland with the loss of some 100 lives, even though the United States had not yet entered World War II. For more military milestones, visit https://www.aerotechnews.com/blog/2020//30/on-this-date-31/

On This Date, Dec. 11, 1961: President John F. Kennedy provides U.S. military helicopters and crews to South Vietnam. The equipment and soldiers arrived on the USNS Core, and included 32 H-21 Shawnee helicopters and 400 soldiers from the 57th Transportation Company (Light Helicopter) from Fort Lewis, Wash., and the 8th Transportation Company (Light Helicopter) from Fort Bragg, N.C. For more military milestones, visit https://www.aerotechnews.com/?s=on+this+date

On This Date, Oct. 31, 1940: The Battle of Britain, fought between the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force and Germany’s Luftwaffe over the English Channel and southern England, ends with a British victory. For more military milestones, visit https://www.aerotechnews.com/blog/2020//30/on-this-date-31/

With Halloween just around the corner, NASA has released its latest, downloadable Galaxy of Horrors posters - click on the link below to check them out! https://www.aerotechnews.com//new-nasa-posters-feature-co/

Soldiers are considered members of a profession whose common language is doctrine. Leaders and Soldiers in a platoon are tied to together by that common language and framework. That’s why their knowledge of it is deemed so critical. The Army has expectations that when you show up to your first job, you have a certain baseline of knowledge. A large part of that comes from doctrine. https://www.aerotechnews.com//tradoc-delivers-new-doctrin/

On This Date, Oct. 30, 1985: Schoolteacher-astronaut Christa McAuliffe witnessed the launch of the space shuttle Challenger, the same craft that would carry her and six other crew members on their ill-fated mission in January 1986. For more aerospace and aviation milestones, visit https://www.aerotechnews.com/?s=on+this+date

Our current capabilities are not sufficient for battlefields distributed in urban and subterranean environments, says Hodne. And we have to anticipate the implications of new technologies on the battlefield .... https://www.aerotechnews.com//army-at-work-on-high-tech-g/

Coming to Aerospace Valley in October 2021! https://www.aerotechnews.com//f-35a-lightning-ii-2021-dem/

The company said that when retirements and other employee departures are included, its workforce will shrink to about 130,000 by the end of next year, or 30,000 fewer people than it had at the start of 2020. Just three months ago, the company ... https://www.aerotechnews.com//deeper-job-cuts-at-boeing-a/

On This Date, Dec. 11, 1941: Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; the U.S. responded in kind. For more military milestones, visit https://www.aerotechnews.com/?s=on+this+date

On This Date, Oct. 30, 1964: Bell’s Lunar Landing Research Vehicle made its first flight, piloted by Joe Walker. The LLRV was developed by the NASA Flight Research Center to simulate a lunar landing profile for research and lunar pilot training for NASA’s Apollo program. For more aerospace and aviation milestones, visit https://www.aerotechnews.com/?s=on+this+date

On This Date, Oct. 30, 1953: The U.S. Defense Department announced elimination of all racially segregated regiments, six years after President Truman signed an executive order ending racial segregation in the U.S. military. The initial response to the order was mixed. The U.S. Navy, which had maintained some degree of integration throughout its history, was the most accommodating branch of service. The Marine Corps (the smallest of the armed services) and the Air Force (the youngest) responded to integration as a matter of efficiency. The U.S. Army initially resisted, but losses in the Korean War rendered the discussion moot, as under-strength white units were forced to accept black recruits to maintain combat effectiveness. For more military milestones, visit https://www.aerotechnews.com/?s=on+this+date

Air Force partners with industry to ensure we can find innovative solutions to meet our future priorities, said Air Vice-Marshal Cath Roberts, RAAF Head of Air Force Capability. Boeing’s Loyal Wingman project is a perfect example of https://www.aerotechnews.com//boeings-australian-loyal-wi/

By supporting suborbital flight testing, our Flight Opportunities program aims to help ensure that these innovations are well-positioned to address challenges and enable NASA to achieve its lunar ambitions, while also contributing to a growing and vibrant commercial space industry, said Jim Reuter, associate administrator of https://www.aerotechnews.com//nasa-selects-31-promising-s/

On This Date, Oct. 29, 1998: Sen. John Glenn, at age 77, roared back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he’d blazed for America’s astronauts 36 years earlier. For more aerospace and aviation milestones, visit https://www.aerotechnews.com/blog/2020//23/on-this-date-30/