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Effective January 1, 1982, the Assistant Secretary of the Army changed the processing stations' names from Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Stations (AFEES) to MEPS. The command's motto is Freedom's Front Door , signifying that a service member's military career starts when they walk through the doors of the MEPS.
This is a list of current formations of the United States Army, which is constantly changing as the Army changes its structure over time. Due to the nature of those changes, specifically the restructuring of brigades into autonomous modular brigades, debate has arisen as to whether brigades are units or formations; for the purposes of this list, brigades are currently excluded.
Stop-loss was created by the United States Congress after the Vietnam War. Its use is founded on Title 10, United States Code, Section 12305(a) which states in part: "... the President may suspend any provision of law relating to promotion, retirement, or separation applicable to any member of the armed forces who the President determines is essential to the national security of the United ...
Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff render a salute during the departure ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base for former President Ronald Reagan, 11 June 2004.. There are currently 41 active-duty four-star officers in the uniformed services of the United States: 11 in the Army, three in the Marine Corps, nine in the Navy, 14 in the Air Force, three in the Space Force, one in the Coast Guard ...
On October 3, 2016, the Army Office of Business Transformation launched Army Ideas for Innovation (AI2) as a replacement for the Army Suggestion Program (ASP), which was suspended in 2013. [11] Created at the direction of the United States Under Secretary of the Army , AI2 is a crowd-source innovation program built on the milSuite platform.
Army National Guard (ARNG) New York Army National Guard (NY ARNG) Major General Jack A. James Jr. [171] [a] U.S. Army: Cavalry divisions: 1st Cavalry Division: Commanding General, 1st Cavalry Division and Commander, Task Force Pegasus [172] III Armored Corps: Major General Thomas M. Feltey [173] [174] U.S. Army: Armored divisions: 1st Armored ...
Jimin Taylor Hill/Getty Images A week after BTS’s Jimin began his military service, the K-pop superstar delivered one more message to the Army. In “Closer Than This,” Jimin, 28, reflected on ...
More specifically, current Department of Defense policy is that no Guardsman will be involuntarily activated for a total of more than 24 months (cumulative) in one six-year enlistment period (this policy is due to change 1 August 2007, the new policy states that soldiers will be given 24 months between deployments of no more than 24 months ...