Establishing the near- and long-term materiel readiness of the Afghan National Army requires urgent attention to inherent challenges and a system-of-systems approach to solutions. This article was originally published in the April - June 2016 issue of Army AL&T magazine.

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Viet X. Luong aspired to join an elite South Vietnamese fighting unit when he was a young boy. He didn't succeed at doing that, but he did become a U.S. Soldier and he is now a brigadier general -- the first U.S. general officer of Vietnamese descent.

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A growing concern over the troop drawdown, realignments across the total Army force, and questions of what that means to the average Soldier, were put to ease by Sergeant Major of the Army Daniel A. Dailey during his visit with deployed Soldiers in Kosovo, May 17-20.

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Traveling from U.S. Army Central's headquarters at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, Lt. Gen. Michael X. Garrett, the commanding general of U.S. Army Central, and Command Sgt. Maj. Eric C. Dostie, the command sergeant major for USARCENT, covered more than 16,000 miles in an effort to strengthen the partnership ties with the allied militaries of Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia during a two-week tour of the USARCENT area of responsibility April 18-30.

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Over a nine month period, the U.S. Army Central Operational Energy Program tested the effectiveness and reliability of solar powered light systems as an alternative to gas-powered systems.

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working now to develop a backup system to be used by service members in the event that access to the Global Positioning System, or GPS, is denied to them by adversaries.

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Eric Fanning was sworn in May 18 as the 22nd secretary of the Army during a small Pentagon ceremony.

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Tobyhanna will soon reap the benefit of free energy after the strategic installation of solar walls on seven buildings across the installation.

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"The Army will fail in its mission if the Army Reserve isn't ready. That's why everything we do focuses on readiness," said Lt. Gen. Jeffrey W. Talley.

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On Feb. 21 Soldiers of Task Force Sinai welcomed General Joseph F. Dunford, The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to El Gorah, Egypt to speak to leaders of the small peacekeeping force and reaffirm the importance of the mission in the region.

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