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By 01 October 2000, under direction from General Shinseki, Chief of Staff, Army (CSA) all Active Duty, Army National Guard and Army Reserve soldiers were required to register for an account on AKO. There are two different types of accounts on Army Knowledge Online, a full account and a guest account.
The OSD Identification Badge. The Office of the Secretary of Defense Identification Badge is a military badge issued to members of the United States armed forces who are permanently assigned to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and its subordinate offices, and in addition, to some of the Defense Agencies and Department of Defense Field Activities.
The United States Army Forces Command partnered with milSuite in 2011 to develop a customized Virtual Training Portal for Soldiers using milWiki and milTube. [9] In 2013, milBook was a key component in an initiative by the United States Air Force 's Air Mobility Command to host and conduct conferences and courses virtually as a cost-cutting ...
Header of an unclassified Department of State telegram with the "SIPDIS" tag marked in red. The Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) is "a system of interconnected computer networks used by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of State to transmit classified information (up to and including information classified SECRET) by packet switching over the 'completely ...
The U.S. Naval Institute reports that "Complaints about NMCI speed and reliability are near-constant" [35] and a wired.com piece [36] quotes an NMCI employee as saying: "I still work for the NMCI and I have to say that I honestly have a hard time looking sailors in the eye when I’m out and about because I’m so ashamed of the job that’s done.
The NATO Stock Number or National Stock Number (NSN) is a 13-digit alphanumeric code consisting of a Group of Supply, a Class of Supply and the unique NIIN to designate unique items of supply grouped by their relative catalog category. The first four digits are the NATO Supply Classification (NSC) or Federal Supply Class (FSC) code.
A military staff or general staff (also referred to as army staff, navy staff, or air staff within the individual services) is a group of officers, enlisted, and civilian staff who serve the commander of a division or other large military unit in their command and control role through planning, analysis, and information gathering, as well as by relaying, coordinating, and supervising the ...
The first attempt at an inter-service system was the Army-Navy Munitions Board, which would procure common items for the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. Items received the prefix "AN/" (for Army & Navy) to indicate their common use (and procured items like radios and some hand-grenades still do to this day). This existed from 1940 to 1942 before ...