Soldiers in the U.S. and the many serving overseas are getting into the holiday spirit, from Kuwait to Kosovo. UA-84299839-1

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EL PASO, Texas -- About 1,500 Soldiers assigned to 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, are gearing up to deploy to Afghanistan this winter. The brigade will support Operation Freedom's Sentinel by advising and assisting their Afghan counterparts. To prepare for the deployment, the unit completed a rotation in December at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California. Soldiers trained with subject matter experts from 3rd Battalion, 353rd Regiment, Joint Regional Training Center, Fort Polk, Louisiana. Nearly every expert has experience as a liaison or advisor downrange.

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FORT CARSON, Colorado -- Forty-two military operational testers recently conducted the first operational test of the Joint Tactical Ground Station (JTAGS) system in 20 years.

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FORT HOOD, Texas -- The 29th Infantry Division Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion completed a one-week Mission Rehearsal Exercise with First Army at Fort Hood, Texas, Dec. 2. More than 400 Maryland and Virginia Army National Guard Soldiers participated in the MRX. They were supported by approximately 650 Soldiers from First Army and U.S. Army Central.

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WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Ash Carter thanked the senior noncommissioned officers he calls his "eyes and ears" with the force as he addressed the 2016 Defense Senior Enlisted Leader Council at the Pentagon Wednesday morning. Chaired by Army Command Sgt. Maj. John Troxell, the senior enlisted advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the council consists of the service and combatant command senior enlisted advisors. Troxell calls it "the Top 25." The council is the only time all the senior enlisted leaders get together each year.

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During a drill exercised on land at Fort Hood, Texas, and shipboard at Norfolk, Virginia, over 200 Soldiers, Airmen, and Sailors responded to simultaneous mock chemical attacks.

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FORT LEE, Va. (Nov. 28, 2016) -- If it is edible and offered or sold for consumption at the commissary or any of the eating establishments here, it has survived the scrutiny of a small contingent of Army Veterinary Corps Soldiers.

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CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait - The 401st Army Field Support Brigade celebrated with troops, civilians and Kuwaiti partners in honor of the completion of several new equipment-protecting warehouses during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Nov. 17 at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.

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KUWAIT NAVAL BASE, Kuwait - The U.S. Army is widely recognized for its land dominance; for selective teams of Soldiers, however, the terrain they dominate is the vastly mysterious and volatile world under the sea. U.S. Army engineer divers with the 511th Engineer Dive Detachment, 30th Engineer Battalion, 20th Engineer Brigade, plunged into the swift currents of the Arabian Gulf for a two-week diving exercise that concluded Nov. 19.

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Sgt. John Perry, 30, was posthumously promoted to staff sergeant and awarded the Bronze Star after being killed in a suicide bombing in Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.

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