FORSCOM in the news U.S. Army Forces Command Soldiers, Families and friends of the 1st Armored Division gathered on Fort Bliss, Texas recently to case the unit FRONTLINE colors in preparation for June 23, 2017 | Volume VII, Issue 25 deployment to Iraq. U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from across the country Mattis: 2018 budget will recently competed in the U.S. Army Reserve Command Senior Leaders continue readiness recovery Best Warrior Competition SECDEF talks Afghan strategy on Fort Bragg, N.C. An infantry brigade combat “Working with the Afghan government team of the 10th Mountain and our allies and partners, we will Division will be the first Army achieve victory against the terrorists unit to get the new Joint abroad, protect our borders at home, Light Tactical Vehicles in and keep America safe.” Jan. 2019. –The Honorable Jim Mattis Secretary of Defense Soldiers of the 3rd Infantry June 14, 2017, Washington Division Sustainment Brigade kicked off a Women’s On Point Mentorship Network Army announces force Program recently at Fort Stewart, Ga. structure decisions Soldiers of 3rd Armored The Army announced how Brigade Combat Team, 4th it will allocate thousands Infantry Division, recently of additional troops that hosted multinational are part of an end strength medical evacuation directed by Congress in the National Defense training in Germany. Authorization Act. The Soldiers from B Company, 2nd Battalion (Assault Helicopter), 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain increase allows the Army to Division, unload UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from a U. S. Airforce C-5 Galaxy at M.K. Air Base, Romania, May maintain an end strength 29, 2017. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Thomas Scaggs) Mortar handling and firing of 1.018 million Soldiers. This results in a regular Army By Jim Garamone, DoD News, Mattis told the panel. “However, we all recognize force increase to 476,000 Soldiers; the Army National Defense Media Activity it will take a number of years of higher funding Guard to 343,000 Soldiers; and the Army Reserve to WASHINGTON -- An additional $21 billion to delivered on time to restore readiness.” 199,000 Soldiers. The increase reverses the Total Army President Donald J. Trump requested a $639 the fiscal year 2017 Defense Department budget end strength reduction originally programmed for 980,000 billion top line for the fiscal 2018 defense bud- started the recovery from the effects of seques- by the end of FY 2018. The increase will begin to address get. “Our first priority is continuing to improve tration spending cuts, but Congress must pass and reduce the capabilities gap against near-peer, high- warfighter readiness begun in 2017, filling in the fiscal 2018 request and repeal the Budget end adversaries; reduce modernization gaps; and improve the holes from trade-offs made during 16 years readiness in existing units. Control Act to continue those gains, Defense Sec- of war, nine years of continuing resolutions and retary Jim Mattis told a Senate subcommittee on Budget Control Act caps,” the secretary said. JLTV Program Monday. Dunford said the proposed budget increase The secretary and Marine Corps Gen. Joe The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle would only maintain forces, and more will need Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of program is a U.S. Army-led, joint to be done in the years to come. modernization program which has Staff, called for increased defense spending “While we’ve been primarily focused on the 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment – Soldiers from a family of vehicles that performs and stable budgets during testimony before the threat of violent extremism, our adversaries and Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense sub- Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, multiple mission roles and provides our potential adversaries have developed ad- 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, protected, sustained, networked committee. vanced capabilities and operational approaches 4th Infantry Division, practice mortar handling and firing at mobility for personnel and payloads “Your support has put more aircraft in the air, specifically designed to limit our ability to project Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, May 25, 2017. (U.S. Army across the full range of operations. more ships to sea and more troops in the field,” power,” the chairman said. photo by Pvt. Nicholas Vidro) TOP SHOTS Here are the best photos from FORSCOM Public Affairs professionals world-wide. For more photos and information, click these photos or visit army.mil/forscom

Left Pfc. Connor Boyer, a trooper with the 1st Infantry Division Commanding General’s Mounted Color Guard wearing a World War II uniform, attaches campaign streamers from that war on the colors, June 8, 2017, during a “Victory with Honors” ceremony celebrating the 100th anniversary of the division. (U.S. Army photo by Chad L. Simon) Right Soldiers with the Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Armored Division, prepare to refuel an AH- 64D Apache Longbow helicopter at the Joint Multinational Readiness Training Center, Hohenfels, Germany, June 2, 2017. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Zane Craig)

Above Spc. Adrian Rodriguez, 2nd Platoon, D Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, sends M240L heavy machine gun rounds toward a target during a gunnery exercise, May 22, 2017 at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany. (U.S. Army photo Above A Soldier from A Company, 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, by Pvt. Nicholas Vidro) 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, adjusts Left Spc. David Martinez, 1st Battalion, 77th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored his helmet while conducting camouflage construction operations Division, practices donning his protective mask before gas chamber training at Fort Bliss, Texas, June 6, during Exercise Combined Resolve VIII at the Hohenfels Training Area, 2017. (U.S. Army photo by Winifred Brown) Hohenfels, Germany, June 4, 2017. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Gage Hull)

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