“We are more looking how we can increase the stocks from previous levels. But we are looking into if you can take even more from our stocks in the short term to support Ukraine. And to then to refill it,” Norway's defense minister said this week.
“Once we have more people in country, we should be in a position to actually go do more physical validation [and] verification, going forward,” said Jed Royal, deputy director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency.
There is room for further development in areas such as electronic warfare and signals intelligence. "These 'soft' components were not as accessible in the past 12 to 15 years when we were so busy in the Middle-East; for example, there is a real drive to invest in areas such as EWSI (Electronic Warfare and Signals Intelligence)," Brig. Gen. Paul Tennant, the British military attache in Washington, says.
Brian Allen Converse passed away in his home in Colorado Springs.
Brian graduated from Bandon High School and served 22 years in the military. As an Army tank commander, he served in peace keeping missions in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Egypt. He also commanded troops as an E7 platoon sergeant. He spent many nights in the field in Hohenfels and Grafenwoehr Germany, while stationed in the barracks at Schweinfurt, Germany. He was stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado for many years, where he supervised his crew in the motor pool. As a G7, he was employed by civilians on the training facility range, where he moved up as a supervisor in analytics. Brian was a decorated soldier, he received the meritorious metal, 8 Army commendation medals and 7 Army achievement medals among other decorations.