Service members across different military occupational specialties are feeling the pressure. Gathered together in a classroom is an engineer, a combat medic, a legal administrator, and a hodgepodge of other MOSs—spanning active, Reserve and National Guard components. The Common Faculty Development-Instructor Course at the D.C. National Guard’s 260th Regiment Regional Training Institute (RTI) gives both officers and noncommissioned officers like U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Erica Williams the tools to build lesson plans and effectively reach their intended audience.

A recent high school graduate may ask, “If I enlist in the Army, what’s in it for me?” The answers are wide-ranging yet simple: you get good pay and benefits, professional advanced training, the chance to travel, and the opportunity to build strength and character and be part of something greater than you might have thought possible.

The Office of Special Trial Counsel improves U.S. Army justice, as the most serious allegations are moved from the chain of command to independent prosecutors. The new Fort Belvoir headquarters has 8 mid-level headquarters and 26 field offices around the Army and is the biggest change to military jurisprudence since the adoption of the Uniform Code of Military Justice in 1950.

Fort Belvoir's Veterinary Center was one of three sites taking part in Veterinary Readiness Activity, its annual training exercise. Its goal is to validate the organization’s ability to surge in response to a hypothetical scenario where a sudden influx of military working dogs require medical attention. They planned up to 20 spay and neuter operations per site for pets of active-duty service members and retirees.