2012 U.S. Army All-American Marching Band Welcomes New Drum Major
After seven months of additional investigation, the U.S. Army has charged Pfc. Bradley E. Manning with 22 additional charges.
One hundred paratroopers, including 26 U.S. Army Pathfinder School students, participated in a night mass tactical airborne jump Wednesday at Fort Benning.
Soldiers expect their leaders to provide them with the tools they need to do their jobs, something the general nominated as the next Army chief of staff says he'll focus on every day.
The fight against insurgents in Afghanistan's Helmand province may have turned the corner and the trend lines are going up, the commander of Regional Command-Southwest said today.
Extending the continuing resolution also means that servicemembers and veterans have until March 18 to file for 'stop-loss' funds if their service was involuntarily extended between Sept. 11, 2001 and Sept. 30, 2009.
For the first time since 1980, the Army Physical Fitness Test is being overhauled, and may be replaced by both the Physical Readiness Test and the Army Combat Readiness Test.
For years the Army's chief of staff has said the service was "out of balance," but he believes next year's budget request will keep it on the right footing after 10 years of war.
WASHINGTON — The lawyer for a jailed soldier suspected of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks wrote Saturday that his client was stripped of his clothing at night because he had made sarcastic comments about using underwear to commit suicide.
FORT KNOX, Ky. -- Lt. Cols. Brett D. Owens, M.D., and Philip J. Belmont Jr., M.D., first met more than a decade ago at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where they served as a general surgery intern and an orthopedic surgery resident, respectively. They collaborated on a research project early on, but it wasn’t until 2007 when they rekindled their partnership working at W
BRISTOL, Tenn. - The U.S. Army Partnership for Youth Success (PaYS) program recently celebrated its 400th partnership signing with Aaron’s, Inc. during the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn. The program, which began in 2000, guarantees a Soldier an interview with a PaYS partner employer once a Soldier decides to enter the civilian workforce again.
DENTON, Texas, July 15, 2011 -- When Staff Sgt. Marcus A. Stone saw cars braking and swerving suddenly ahead of him on Interstate 35 East in Dallas, he knew something bad had just happened on the freeway he was driving on. In the minutes that followed, Stone prevented what would have surely been a deadly accident, when he pulled a victim from a burning vehicle. Those actions that December day pro
WHEN ads for the Army used the theme Today’s Army wants to join you,” a joker rewrote it this way: “Today’s Army wants to join you. At your place.” These days, the Army is getting social — if not quite that sociable — as potential recruits increasingly spend time with social media like Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and YouTube. The next phase of the Army&rsqu
The world has changed and so has the Army. I was invited to spend three days with new recruits at Fort Benning in Georgia to observe and experience their basic training. This is my story and interpretation of their physical training.
There is something slightly poetic about United States Army Master Sgt. Mark Morgan's service. It's flooded with discipline, but his assigned tasks have had very different goals. As an Army Ranger, Morgan's missions often revolve around destruction. But when the Beaumont native puts on his other uniform, it's all about creation. Throughout his career, Morgan, 41, has discovered the level of di
Parents, spouses and children reverently approached the 6-foot-tall granite memorial Friday, some kneeling and wiping away tears as they gently touched a name etched on the stone — each belonging to one of the 13 people killed in the Fort Hood shooting rampage a year ago. Many families of the 12 soldiers and one civilian who died Nov. 5, 2009, met for the first time at the anniversary memor
U.S. Army Reserve Soldier, Sergeant Josiah Greene who has started a Tribute Fund in honor of Auburn-bound student and U.S. Army All-American Bowl player Shon Coleman and his fight against cancer.
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