This month, Jonathan Martin, an offensive lineman on the Miami Dolphins football team, walked out and quit the team due to a perceived hostile work environment allegedly characterized by demeaning, racially-biased communications and financial extortion by at least one team captain and other senior members of the team. Read More

U.S Army Office of the Chief Information Officer and Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems

As part of the Army’s AKO transition to enterprise services, Army retirees and family members can have their AKO email automatically forwarded to a commercial email address until Dec. 31, 2014. In the past, users could only forward AKO email to a government email address. Read More

Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)

As part of the ongoing effort to move away from a one size fits all security approach and provide more of the traveling public the ability to participate in expedited screening, the Transportation Security Administration and the Department of Defense announced Nov. 13 a partnership to expand TSA Precheck expedited screening benefits to all U.S. Armed Forces service members, including those serving in the U.S. Coast Guard, Reserves and National Guard.Read More

By David Vergun
Army News Service

For the past several decades, only about 20 percent of Soldiers were classified as “class 1 dental wellness.” In the dental community, that means those Soldiers were up to date on cleanings and required no dental work, said the commander of U.S. Army Dental Command.Read More

Cliff Heisler, the Stuttgart Central Processing Facility manager, has his blood pressure taken by Tamiriz Centeno (right), a community health nurse with the Stuttgart Army Health Clinic, during the U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart Retiree Appreciation Day Oct. 24. Heisler is a retired Army Master Sgt. with 23 years of service.Read More

At the recent Association of the U.S. Army’s annual meeting, the chief of staff of the Army, Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, rolled out his strategic priorities, which will serve as the basis for the objectives outlined in the upcoming 2014 Army strategic planning guidance. Read More