Maj. Jeffrey Magee and Capt. Tom Clerici each received a Bronze Star Medal at separate events in February for their meritorious service in Afghanistan. Magee was recognized Feb. 17 at Lackland AFB, Tex., for his work in assisting the Afghan National Civil Order Police’s chief of logistics, including helping establish the first national vehicle depot outside of Kabul for the Afghan National Army. Clerici, a telecommunications assessments chief at Lackland, received his medal Feb. 9 during a ceremony at Camp Eggers in Kabul, where he served with the NATO Training Mission and Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, advising on matters such as deployment operations, training, soldier retention, and equipment acquisition. (Lackland report on Magee; Lackland report on Clerici)
In AI Experiment, UK and US Simulate Adjacent Operations
Oct. 20, 2021
Held an ocean apart but simulating adjacent military forces, a virtual demonstration Oct. 18 gave the U.K. and U.S. militaries cause to project optimism over someday jointly adopting artificial intelligence “that can learn in the field.” The test represented “just the first step” on the way to an “experimental trial…