World War II-Era Soldier Developed the Lithium-ion Battery

View Online World War II-Era Soldier Developed the Lithium-ion Battery Dec. 20, 2024 | By David Vergun John B. Goodenough, a former soldier, was awarded the Nobel Prize for helping create the lithium-ion battery, used today in a plethora of civilian and military systems, including vehicles, cellphones and laptops.  Their advantages include high-energy output, light weight and long lifespan.  So important are these batteries to the military that the Defense Department published the "Lithium Battery Strategy 2023-2030," which outlines supply chain security measures of these vital components.  Research for the lithium-ion battery was started by Michael Stanley Whittingham in the late 1970s. Goodenough improved on it in the 1980s and Akira Yoshino made further refinements to the point where it could be produced commercially in 1991. For their achievements, the three shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry.  The Air Force Office of Scientific Research helped to fund Goodenough's research.  Besides developing lithium-ion batteries, Goodenough was also on the team tasked with improving memory capabilities in early computers that resulted in the first random-access memory used in today's computers.  During World War II, Goodenough joined the Army Air Force, training as a meteorologist in Grand Rapids, Michigan. "The Army training, mostly by civilians, was efficient and quite professional," he wrote in his 2019 Nobel Prize autobiographical sketch.  Upon being commissioned a second lieutenant in the autumn of 1943, he was posted at an air base in Houlton, Maine, a few miles south of a more active air base in Presque Isle, where fighter planes were dispatched to England.   "After two weeks, I found myself in charge of the weather station in Houlton. In those days we drew our own maps and made our own forecasts; there was no satellite and no computer-aided forecast from Washington," he wrote.  In the summer of 1944, he was sent to Stephenville on the west coast of Newfoundland. Stephenville was the jumping-off base for the cargo B54s flying to either the Azores or directly to England.   These planes also stopped in Stephenville on their way home to Washington, D.C. The B54s had a longer range than the fighter planes. The tactical bombers were dispatched from Gander on the east side of the island.  "Although almost all my forecasts were reasonably accurate, including a clearing of Eisenhower from Stephenville that landed him safely in Paris within six minutes of his estimated time of arrival, a forecast could be dangerously wrong," he wrote, referring to Army Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander, Allied Expeditionary Force.  "As D-day approached, we tried to predict from the weather when the allies would storm the beaches of France. Eisenhower and our forces had bad luck with the strength of the cold front behind which they attacked. We followed closely the battle of the hedge rows and the final breakout across France," he wrote.  "One December day, civilian pilots flying the B54s were congratulating themselves that they were going to make it home for Christmas. When I refused to clear them for the trip to Newfoundland because a strong headwind from there to the Azores would prevent them from reaching their destination, they set out anyway. Six hours later they were back on base; the headwinds were so strong they had barely cleared the islands," he wrote.  Goodenough had attained the rank of captain when he was discharged at the end of the war.  Born to American parents in Jena, Germany, on July 25, 1922, Goodenough married Irene Wiseman in 1951. She died in 2016, and he died at age 100, June 25, 2023, in Austin, Texas. They had no children.

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Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks Makes Holiday Calls to Deployed Service Members

View Online IMMEDIATE RELEASE Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks Makes Holiday Calls to Deployed Service Members Dec. 20, 2024 Pentagon Spokesman Eric Pahon provided the following readout: Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks spoke today via video call with deployed service members from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and U.S. Navy to wish them happy holidays. During the conversations, Deputy Secretary Hicks thanked the service members and their families for their unwavering dedication and sacrifice in defense of the nation. She commended their commitment and hard work toward ensuring the safety and security of the United States, as well as their continued commitment to supporting America's allies and partners around the globe. Deputy Secretary Hicks spoke with service members from the following units: 2nd Security Force Assistance Brigade. Soldiers from this unit are deployed to Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, to develop the Djiboutian security forces' capabilities and capacity to rapidly deter threats through the Battalion Intervention Rapide (BIR). 480th Expeditionary Fighter Generation Squadron. Airmen from this unit are deployed to Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudia Arabia, supporting aircraft and training requirements in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. USS Gettysburg (CG 64). Sailors aboard USS Gettysburg (CG 64), a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, are deployed in defense of the Harry S. Truman Strike Group to ensure regional stability and security in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.  Deputy Secretary Hicks also commended the professionalism and integrity with which U.S. service members worldwide carry out their duties, and the vital contributions of military families in support of our all-volunteer force.

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DoD Releases 2025 Continental U.S. Cost-of-Living Allowance Rates

View Online IMMEDIATE RELEASE DoD Releases 2025 Continental U.S. Cost-of-Living Allowance Rates Dec. 20, 2024 The Defense Department released the 2025 Continental United States Cost-of-Living Allowance (CONUS COLA) rates today, and will take effect Jan. 1, 2025. In 2025, $51 million will be paid to approximately 61,000 service members stationed within CONUS. CONUS COLA is a supplemental allowance designed to help offset higher prices in the highest-cost locations in CONUS that exceed the average costs within the CONUS. Rates can increase, decrease, or remain the same, depending upon the non-housing prices in a duty location as compared to non-housing prices in average CONUS. By law, a contractor provides the Department civilian cost data from each military housing area (MHA) and non-MHA for the following categories: transportation, goods and services, federal income taxes, sales taxes, and miscellaneous expenses.  Data is adjusted to account for Basic Allowance for Subsistence, an allowance meant to offset the costs for a member's meals, day care subsidies, and for cost savings gained from shopping at commissaries and exchanges. This information is compared to the same cost data for average CONUS, which serves as a benchmark; the resulting ratio is called an index. By law, a CONUS COLA rate is only prescribed when the index meets a certain threshold above the CONUS average. For 2025, the costs for non-housing types of goods and services in a particular location must be at least 7 percent more expensive than average CONUS costs to qualify for a CONUS COLA payment. An index above 107 percent would qualify for CONUS COLA (e.g., a location that is 10 percent more expensive would qualify for a 3 percent COLA index). This year, 10 MHAs will begin receiving CONUS COLA; 6 MHAs will receive an increase in CONUS COLA; 3 MHAs will receive a decrease in CONUS COLA and 4 MHAs will no longer receive CONUS COLA.   For non-MHA areas (non-metropolitan counties), 25 counties will gain CONUS COLA, 1 county will receive a decrease in CONUS COLA and 51 counties will lose CONUS COLA. Military housing areas with the highest CONUS COLA rates:           New York City, NY                  8%           Humboldt County, CA             5%           San Francisco, CA                 5% Military housing area with the largest decrease:           New York City, NY                  13% to 8% Military housing area with the largest increase:            Humboldt County, CA             0% to 5% The total amount of CONUS COLA a Service member receives varies based on geographic duty location, pay grade, years of service, and dependency status.  Payments per CONUS COLA percentage point range from $35 to $60 per month for members with dependents, and from $27 to $46 per month for members without dependents. Service members can calculate their CONUS COLA rate at https://www.travel.dod.mil/Allowances/CONUS-Cost-of-Living-Allowance/CONUS-COLA-Rate-Lookup/.  Additional information about CONUS COLA can be found on the Defense Travel Management Office website at https://www.travel.dod.mil/Allowances/CONUS-Cost-of-Living-Allowance/.

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