Today at @SOARMDAusArmy the SUB4SGT Tank D&S Instr Cse prepares and conducts deep water fording. An important skill as they now can instruct their units on fording as we push with Amphib Ops in the future #goodsoldiering #futureready pic.twitter.com/XcIvOHtW8V— Pete Kirkman (@RSM_Forge) November 27, 2019
American planned McDonnell F-4M(FV)S Phantom II High Variable Sweep Wing fighter jet variant pic.twitter.com/Ff9P9JHXH7— Caesar (@Ninja998998) November 27, 2019
Rollins was a 59-year-old woman who was attacked and killed by a pack of feral hogs in Anahuac, Texas. She was at her job as a home healthcare worker for an elderly couple who live at the house on State Highway 61 in Anahuac, which is about 50 miles east of Houston.Story here.
It isn’t clear how the attack happened and whether Rollins fell first and then was set on by the wild hogs, the Chambers County Sheriff’s Office said on its Facebook page. “At this time detectives are unable to determine if she collapsed due to a medical condition and the fall caused the head injury, or if the animals may have caused the fall and contributed to her death,” the sheriff’s office said.
Her cause of death was officially ruled as “exsanguination due to feral hog assault.”
It appeared that Rollins suffered some kind of animal bites and had severe blood loss, according to KHOU11, a CBS News affiliate. Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne told the station, “I don’t want to go into detail, but, in my 35 years, I will tell you it’s one of the worst things I’ve ever seen.”
Hawthorne told reporters that the scene was so bad when deputies arrived they initially thought a crime had occurred.
Six officiers, seven Warrant Officers and NCOs killed in helicopters collision in Mali.— Harry Boone (@towersight) November 26, 2019
Most of them are from 5e Combat Helicopter Reg. and Mountain Brigade Units.
The Transport Helo crashed was an AS352 Cougar not a Caiman as 1st stated https://t.co/7A2esJ11fF pic.twitter.com/oW9N9Dty1S
Britain helped in rescue mission to retrieve bodies of 13 French personnel killed in tragic helicopter crash in Mali yday.— Lucy Fisher (@LOS_Fisher) November 26, 2019
RAF Chinook has transported French combat troops back & forth to forward operating base near crash site. All bodies of the dead now retrieved, I understand
It may take up to five years to finalize the standards for the Army Combat Fitness Test as the service struggles to address the performance gap between male and female soldiers on the service's first-ever gender-neutral fitness assessment.Story here.
The Army just completed in late September a year-long field test of the ACFT, involving about 60 battalions of soldiers. And as of Oct. 1, soldiers in Basic Combat Training, advanced Individual training and one station unit training began to take the ACFT as a graduation requirement.
So far, the data is showing "about a 100 to a 110-point difference between men and women, on average," Maj. Gen. Lonnie Hibbard, commander of the Center for Initial Military Training, told Military.com.
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Hibbard said the Army would be in the same position if it tried to create a gender-neutral standard for the current Army Physical Fitness Test.
"We would still have challenges, because you have to make the low end low enough that 95% of the women can pass," Hibbard said, adding that the Army will likely have to make small adjustments to the standard over time as soldiers improve their performance in each event.
Similar in size is the First Win Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicle (AIFV), although its main difference is that it is designed for amphibious mobility. Powered by rear-mounted propellers, it can move at water speeds of 8km/h, plus it can ford obstacles up to 1m deep. Chaiseri also refers to it as the Armoured Wheeled Amphibious Vehicle (AWAV). Later it will be tested in the sea and is expected to be able to operate in Sea State 2.Story here.
The First Win AIFV weighing 11.5t is slightly wider at 2.596m, which should assist with waterborne stability. It is 6.09m long and 2.42m high, and it is powered by a 330hp engine. Again, it can accommodate up to six passengers/crew.
The Royal Navy are said to be furious over the decision to lease out one of the two flagship Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers that have recently been commissioned.Story here.
A military told The Sunday Times: “The army hates the aircraft carriers, which they have always seen as white elephants, but the Americans love them.
“They’re cutting-edge because they can operate with far fewer crew than the US carriers.
“Both the army and the navy think that the job of the RAF will soon be done by drones.”
The considerations for military cuts remain at an early stage but have followed a directive by Defence Secretary Ben Wallace that they must “cut their cloth” according to the budget.
He has secured another £2.2billion for the military but said he wants better kit rather than an expanded fighting force.
In September, Mr Wallace revealed the money would go towards “dilapidated not fit for purpose accommodation.”
The news comes as a former British Army Chief of General staff described how cuts to the defence budget in recent years has left the Army, “half as capable as it once was”.
