Fort Irwin News

Unmanned aerial vehicle pilots maintain an "eye-in-the-sky" view providing real-time surveillance high above the battlefield in order to keep Soldiers safe from unexpected "enemy" attacks, at the U.S. Army National Training Center, at Fort Irwin, Calif.

FORT IRWIN The scheduled and highly anticipated June 8 Ludacris concert at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin has been canceled, according to a base news release issued Thursday.

Col. Charles D. Costanza and Command Sgt. Maj. Michael D. Green assumed command and responsibility, respectively, of the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team during a ceremony May 17 at the National Infantry Museum Parade Field.

DAGGETT For the rural communities of Yermo, Calico, Newberry Springs, Daggett, Fort Irwin and Ludlow, 37 graduates was a record number this year at the Silver Valley Alternative Education Center, according to the school's principal Stefan Cvijanovich.

FORT IRWIN Fort Irwin will host its 3rd Annual "Cali Swag Car Show" on June 8 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Grammy-Award winning rapper Ludacris will perform in concert on the base the same day.

Image Caption: Pascal Lee and Sgt Andre Pearson conduct "small body" geological sampling in simulated spacesuits while anchored and tethered on a steep boulder slope at Asteroid Hill, National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California.

An hour northeast of Barstow, California, there's an army base the size of Rhode Island, complete with a fake Afghan town known as Ertebat Shar.

IMAGE: A street market in the U.S. military's fake Afghan village of Ertebat Shar.

Masooma sits with her children at her brother-in-law's house on the outskirts of Kandahar, Afghanistan on Saturday, April 20, 2013.

When: Saturday at 7 a.m. Sign-in begins at 6 a.m. with a safety brief at 6:45 a.m. The competition route will begin at the base's Outdoor Recreation building and through NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, with a detour around the Mars and Apollo tracking stations, according to a Fort Irwin news release.

FORT IRWIN U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Tuesday in a Department of Defense memo that unpaid time off would in fact be required for about 680,000 civilian employees - including workers at local bases - beginning July 8. Though the amount of furlough days will be reduced to 11; original projections ranged from 22 to 14 ... (more)

FORT IRWIN Grammy-Award winning rapper and film actor Chris "Ludacris" Bridges will perform at the National Training Center on June 8, according to a Fort Irwin news release.

I n the Young Leaders Panel, Government Executive editors pose a question about an issue affecting the federal workforce to a group of emergent leaders outside the federal community.

"If we found extra terrestrials, what would you do?" one fourth-grader posed to Dr.

BARSTOW Beginning just after dawn today, 13 teams will race in a 40-mile relay from Fort Irwin to the Barstow Veterans Home.