Rep. Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma) has said President Donald Trump should seek authorization from Congress to carry out future military operations against the Islamic State militant organization, Defense News reported Thursday.

Joe Gould writes Cole, a member of the House Appropriations Committee’s defense subpanel and the House Budget Committee, made the call through a letter addressed to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin).

Cole said at CNN’s New Day show Wednesday that Trump should ask for new authorization of the use of military force since the U.S. is now in “sustained military activity” against the militant organization that did not exist in 2002 when the last AUMF was passed to allow the post-9/11 war in Iraq, according to a report by Elliot Smilowitz for The Hill.

“So if you are fighting against a new enemy in new places, it seems to me you need a new authorization for the use of military force,” he added.

He noted that the U.S.-led airstrike against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces early this month did not require congressional approval because it was a “one-strike thing,” the report added.

Defense Secretary James Mattis called the U.S. missile strike against Syria’s Shayrat airbase a “measured military response” to the Assad regime’s April 4 chemical weapons attack on its citizens.

South Korea has granted 30 hectares of land to the U.S. Forces Korea for the deployment of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system, United Press International reported Thursday.

Elizabeth Shim writes THAAD will be established on a golf course owned by the family-run conglomerate Lotte in Seongju County in South Korea’s North Gyeongsang Province.

South Korea’s foreign ministry said a U.S.-South Korea task force has finalized details of the transfer and the South Korean military will run another round of environmental assessments that will take approximately 30 days, Shim reported.

The report said U.S. troops have transferred most of the THAAD equipment to the site.

Vincent Brooks, commander of U.S. Forces Korea, said in November 2016 the THAAD deployment would occur over eight to 10 months.

U.S. and South Korea reached a mutual decision last year to deploy the anti-missile system on the Korean Peninsula amid North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile tests.

The Iowa Army National Guard’s UH-60 helicopter pilots and crew members have trained on an updated home-station flight training system at the Camp Dodge Joint Maneuver Training Center in Johnston, Iowa.

The Black Hawk Aircrew Trainer is designed to help pilots operate the Sikorsky-built utility helicopter under adverse weather conditions, cloud cover, icing and enemy fires, the Iowa National Guard said Thursday.

“The BAT allows us to train pilots in situations we hope they never find themselves in whether it be emergency procedures we cannot simulate in the aircraft, or to train pilots in threat scenarios,” said Travis Vanlengen, Army Chief Warrant Officer 2.

Vanlengen added the system aids training for emergency procedures in the event of engine failure, in-flight fire, tail rotor malfunction and other mechanical issues.

Army Chief Warrant Officer 4 Steven Stumbo said the implementation of BAT at Camp Dodge will help Iowa pilots to complete annual 18-hour simulator training requirement.

The trainer is equipped with a screen technology that works to help airmen conduct missions using a full night-vision goggle.

Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, the U.S. Army‘s deputy chief of staff of G-2, has said a review of the entire Army force is underway to explore the service branch’s current capacity and mission requirements, Defense News reported Wednesday.

Jen Judson writes the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command and Intelligence Center of Excellence will run the “bottom-up” review through late summer.

“It’s really targeted on what are the missions that are emerging now that we have not really accounted for and where are we going to be in 2025,” Ashley said at an Association of the U.S. Army breakfast event Wednesday.

He added the review team has collected more than 3,800 responses from a survey of Army capacity and needs and the group currently interviews Army leaders at various commands.

The team will present findings to Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and host an industry day on June 29 to discuss its findings, Judson reported.

Ashley said the assessment will cover the areas of open-source intelligence, interrogation, certification process for analysts, counterintelligence, collection management, aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; and the integration of cyber, electronic warfare and signals intelligence.