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Manpower and Personnel
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Effective immediately, getting bumped up a paygrade for taking orders to hard-to-fill jobs is here to stay. Called “Advancement-to-Position” or A2P, the program was first announced as a pilot program for junior sailors in April. Navy officials are now saying those tests were so successful they’ve made the idea a permanent program.

THINK TANK CENTRAL
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Lt. Col. Dakota Wood, USMC Ret., senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, discusses the guidance by Gen. David Berger, USMC, the new US Marine Corps commandant, to better prepare his force for rapidly emerging challenges, focusing on innovative concepts to deliver amphibious capability, importance of more numbers rather than fewer more “exquisite” platforms, the defense budget outlook and the need to make hard choices with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the think tank’s Washington headquarters after an address by Berger.

Navy News
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Beards are a hot button issue – sailors want them – Navy leadership says they can’t have them.

Now the last bastions of beards in the Navy –  “permanent no shave chits” issued for medical reasons,  are being be thrown overboard, too.

Instead, the service will expand treatment options for sailors with skin issues caused by shaving.

It’s not that the service hasn’t considered again allowing beards – they have.

The Navy has studied beards many times since 1985, the last time beards were allowed throughout the ranks. Each time, the conclusion is the same — they pose a significant safety hazard in shipboard environments. That’s why facial hair, other than mustaches, will stay banned in the Navy.

Navy News
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After 28-years in the fleet, the guided-missile cruiser Hue City arrived at Naval Station Norfolk today to begin her stint in the Navy’s Cruiser Modernization program after a three-day tow from Naval Station Mayport, Fla. The ship officially became  the seventh Ticonderoga-class cruiser to enter the service life extension program on Sept. 30.

AFA 2019
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Col. Tad “Wolf” Clark, USAF, the commander of the 8th Fighter Wing at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, discusses lessons the US Air Force can learn from the Wolfpack’s hair-trigger alert posture to deter North Korea, how brutal a conflict between the Koreas would be, cooperation with South Korean forces, and the rich history of his unit and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Air Force Association’s 2019 Air Space Cyber conference and tradeshow outside Washington, DC. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS.

Navy News
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Twenty-Eight vessels held in reserve by the Military Sealift Command and Maritime Administration were ordered to activate and head to sea on Sept. 16 in the largest peacetime activation of the nation’s strategic reserve of sealift ships, ever. In the end, a total of 33-ships were brought to life and sent to sea — five more than initially planned.While the initial numbers are encouraging to the U.S. Transportation Command’s top military officer, Army General Stephen R. Lyons, he says he’s withholding final judgement on how the ship’s performed until all the results are tallied up.
In the end, a total of 33-ships ended up spinning up and heading to sea — five more than initially planned. While those initial numbers are encouraging to Transportation Command’s top military officer, Army General Stephen R. Lyons, he says he’s withholding final judgement until all the results are tallied.

VIDEOS
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Diego de Ojeda, head of unit for defense and security policies at the European Commission Secretariat General, discusses talks with US officials to explain the European Defence Initiative, European Defence Fund and other efforts to improve EU nation’s military capabilities and make them more effective NATO partners as well as export control discussion with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington, DC.

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