Top leaders at Fort Campbell decided days earlier to pull 7,000 101st Airborne Division soldiers out of the field where they were conducting the unit’s largest annual home station training event, Operation Lethal Eagle.

After the Army announced the 101st would be the service’s first unit to receive the MV-75 aircraft, division planners sought to include Ospreys in Operation Lethal Eagle to help develop the doctrine for fighting with its coming tilt-rotor capability.

Army Col. Patrick Caukin, who took command of the district that covers Arkansas and southern Missouri in September 2025, in an announcement that blamed “entrenched bureaucracy” and a failure to follow orders.

Although Stars and Stripes is a part of the Pentagon’s Defense Media Activity, it has long retained independence from editorial oversight from the Pentagon under a congressional mandate.

The shooting on Tuesday afternoon forced a lockdown of on-base schools and day care centers. No students, children or school staff members were harmed.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll promised soldiers improvements are coming, especially once a Defense Department-wide study of barracks problems is completed next month.

The reorganization mandated last year will result in the shuttering of four of the Army’s six Security Force Assistance Brigades, which consist of soldiers specially trained to advise foreign military forces.

The increase in fitness testing aligns with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s push for increased physical standards across the U.S. military.

Two alleged male “narcoterrorists” linked to an unnamed “designated terrorist organization” were killed in the attack as part of Operation Southern Spear. Most of the Southern Spear strikes have targeted Tren de Aragua.

The president on Monday declined to answer questions about whether other U.S. strikes had occurred inside Venezuela or if further attacks could be expected.