The Army surpassed 61,000 future soldier contracts this week, four months before the end of the fiscal year. It marks the second consecutive year that the service has reached its target for new enlistment after it had failed to meet its goals in 2022 and 2023.

Army veteran Winston Hencely, who sued a defense contractor over injuries from a suicide bombing in Afghanistan, will have his case reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The 4th Combat Aviation Brigade’s Monster Garage is the home of a platoon-sized unit innovating how the 4th Infantry Division incorporates small, cheap drones among its soldiers. It’s an initiative underway in most Army divisions to keep up with rapidly evolving battlefield technology.

Maj. Jonathan Batt faces charges for more than 63 accusations, including 10 specifications of rape, and 15 of sexual assault against 17 women, according to the Army’s Office of Special Trial.

A Blue Heeler named Doc Holliday will join the Army’s 250th birthday celebration, a military parade in D.C. that coincides with Trump’s 79th birthday.

The U.S. military’s training of Ukrainian forces in Bavaria switched to a new Army National Guard unit over the weekend, as Russia appears poised to launch a new offensive in a war well into its third year.

About 200 U.S. troops based in South Korea have been temporarily redeployed to the Middle East, according to a South Korean military official cited in a local news report.

Every spot at Cedar Falls High School’s 825-seat gymnasium was taken at a deployment ceremony for 218 members of the Iowa Army National Guard 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment. Similar scenes were playing out across the state as about 1,800 soldiers preparing to deploy to the Middle East as part of Operation Inherent Resolve.

Building an underground tunnel for an aging oil pipeline that stretches across a Great Lakes channel could destroy wetlands and harm bat habitats but would eliminate the chances of a boat anchor rupturing the line and causing a catastrophic spill, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in a long-awaited draft analysis of the proposed project’s environmental impacts.

An Uzbekistan national is at the center of an expanding legal battle over whether migrants illegally entering from Mexico can also be convicted of trespassing on New Mexico’s new military border zone. Hundreds of misdemeanor military trespassing charges were dismissed earlier this month.