Obesity is often cited as one of the significant challenges to military recruiting. This was the first time that the 2nd Multi-Domain Task Force did a multi-service, multi-partner targeting data hand-off at these ranges. Project Converge is not, according to Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, "activity for activity’s sake." Meanwhile, the Army is gearing up for a first user assessment for its Stryker-based Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense system in Germany. The first- and second-place winning pilots likely crashed at the National Air Race Championships, possibly because of a blind spot, glare or loss of focus. Two pilots died when their World War II-era planes collided Sunday at the Reno Air Races, at least the third deadly crash there since 2011. “We’re finding problems,” Assistant Secretary of the Army Doug Bush said. “It’s actually good we’re finding these.” The half-hour mission drained all their ammo and nearly their fuel in one of the most daring rescues of the Vietnam War. DoD is weighing the use of calculators on the ASVAB. No two services can agree on where to measure a service member’s waist when deploying the hated, but hard-to-eliminate tape test. Load More