Non-Fatal Accidents Double For Marine Corps Aircraft

Non-Fatal Accidents Double For Marine Corps Aircraft
Non-Fatal Accidents Double For Marine Corps Aircraft

CAPITOL HILL: The rate of non-fatal accidents has doubled in Marine Corps aviation since last year, and the Marines are turning to outside experts to figure out why. So-called Class C mishap rates — nonfatal incidents that cause $50,000 to $500,000 in damage or loss of work time — have occurred in 2016 at double their previous…

AWA Is NOT NIE: Army Tries To Buy Weapons That Work

AWA Is NOT NIE: Army Tries To Buy Weapons That Work
AWA Is NOT NIE: Army Tries To Buy Weapons That Work

UPDATED 10:55 with Deputy Assistant Secretary Miller comments HUNTSVILLE, ALA: After 20 years of costly and cancelled programs, the US Army wants to break its weapons-buying system wide open. This time, service leaders swear, will be different from previous, failed reforms. The pinnacle of the new process will be something called the Army Warfighting Assessment,…

Army Taps Controversial Generals: What McMaster & Mangum Mean For The Future

Army Taps Controversial Generals: What McMaster & Mangum Mean For The Future
Army Taps Controversial Generals: What McMaster & Mangum Mean For The Future

[UPDATED 6:30 pm] HUNTSVILLE, ALA.: The ever-beleaguered Army has a reputation — not undeserved — for being bland, conformist, and bureaucratic, an organization where brilliant mavericks are forced to retire at colonel and the guys who make general don’t rock the boat. Just ask any of the long-serving and long-suffering officers convening here in Huntsville, home…

Budgets & ‘Betrayal’: National Guard Fights To Keep Apache Gunships

Budgets & ‘Betrayal’: National Guard Fights To Keep Apache Gunships
Budgets & ‘Betrayal’: National Guard Fights To Keep Apache Gunships

“To be honest, we feel betrayed.” That’s what one National Guard gunship pilot told me when I asked him about the Army’s plan to strip the Guard of all its AH-64 Apache attack helicopters. That plan — still awaiting approval by President Obama before he includes it in his budget request for fiscal year 2015…

Army Aviators Face New Threats With Old Helicopters: Drones, Tactics Key

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD: Many new threats, but few new weapons to meet them. That’s what the cash-strapped future holds for the entire Army, but especially for the service’s most expensive branch, the helicopter corps. So the challenge is to teach old birds new tricks. As budgets tighten, the service’s strategy to keep up with the…