DefenceTalkWASHINGTON: This fiscal year the Army will make its mission of 59,000 active-duty accessions who enter basic combat training, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Snow said. However, there will be about a 2,000-person shortage in the Army Reserve accessions this fiscal year, with the mission being 17,300, said Snow, who serves as commander of U.S. Army Recruiting […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-army-sees-challenges-ahead-to-recruiting-future-soldiers-65174/

DefenceTalkSquid are the ultimate camouflage artists, blending almost flawlessly with their backgrounds so that unsuspecting prey can’t detect them. Using a protein that’s key to this process, scientists have designed “invisibility stickers” that could one day help soldiers disguise themselves, even when sought by enemies with tough-to-fool infrared cameras. The researchers will present their work […]https://www.defencetalk.com/squid-inspired-invisibility-stickers-could-help-soldiers-evade-detection-63655/

DefenceTalkWith a diminishing number of Swedes with a completed army service and a drop in volunteer recruits, the military is a facing a severe shortage of soldiers, a report commissioned by Sweden’s Defence Committee shows. “We have a reserve of conscripts, but it will soon have been emptied,” Allan Widman, the chairman of parliament’s Defence […]https://www.defencetalk.com/sweden-faces-soldier-shortage-63408/

DefenceTalkThe Army is researching physiological sensors that may help Soldiers achieve superior performance on battlefields of the future, said the commanding general of Fort Detrick, Maryland. Lt. Gen. Joseph Caravalho Jr., commander of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and Fort Detrick, led a panel discussion at the Association of the United States […]https://www.defencetalk.com/body-sensors-to-help-soldiers-in-future-conflicts-60577/

DefenceTalk“In the Army, we always say, ‘never send our Soldier into a fair fight.’ Each of you here,” from the robotics community, are “helping to make that happen,” said Heidi Shyu, assistant secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics & Technology. Shyu, who provided the keynote address at National Defense Industrial Association’s Ground Robotics Capabilities […]https://www.defencetalk.com/smarter-ground-robots-partnering-with-soldiers-60357/

DefenceTalkResearchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory continue to develop and evaluate methods for navigation and communication that are ‘hands-free, eyes-free and mind-free’ to aid Soldiers in the field. Soldiers wear a lightweight belt around their torso, containing miniature haptic technology. The belt provides vibratory or tactile cues allowing a Soldier to navigate to map […]https://www.defencetalk.com/researchers-develop-hands-free-eyes-free-navigation-for-soldiers-59604/

DefenceTalkPakistan army helicopters fired missiles killing three militants on Sunday, officials said, in apparent retaliation for a Taliban bomb attack that killed 20 soldiers in the restive northwest. The helicopters fired at a road in the village of Musaki situated in the same tribal region as the bombing earlier Sunday, intelligence and civil administration officials […]https://www.defencetalk.com/army-retaliates-after-20-pakistan-soldiers-killed-in-bomb-attack-50147/

DefenceTalkIn his own words, the G-8 reiterated what the secretary of the Army and chief of staff have both said about downsizing Soldier levels to under 450,000 — “even at 450, it’s a high risk for the mission sets and mission tasks that have been given to us.” Presently, the Army has about 564,000 Soldiers […]https://www.defencetalk.com/g-8-us-army-soldier-levels-could-drop-to-420000-by-2019-50145/

DefenceTalkThe US military will deploy 800 additional troops from an armored unit to South Korea to bolster its forces in case of a crisis with North Korea, the Pentagon said Tuesday. The US Army soldiers, armored vehicles and tanks from the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment will be stationed at camps Hovey and Stanley near […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-bolsters-forces-in-south-korea-with-armored-unit-50049/

DefenceTalkBeginning Dec. 20, Soldiers will be eligible for expedited pre-flight screening at airports, meaning they’ll be able to get into the express line where they don’t need to remove their shoes and belts or take laptops out of their baggage. All service members, including those in the Reserve, National Guard and Coast Guard, will be […]https://www.defencetalk.com/soldiers-to-get-expedited-airport-security-screenings-49943/