The Philippine government has long insisted on return of the bells, which belonged to the Roman Catholic church in the town of Balangiga. But some veterans and Wyoming’s members of Congress are against the move, seeing them as a memorial to U.S. troops.

A U.S. soldier died last week after a swimming accident near Darmstadt, Germany, officials said.

Members of West Point's Class of 2022 will be officially accepted into the corps on Aug. 18.

When Bobby Body, a U.S. Army veteran, is lying on the bench getting ready to lift a bar loaded with over 440 pounds of weight, the prosthetic leg he wears lays on the floor, just off to the side of the action.

Soldiers with the 1st Brigade Combat Team trained last week to jump into combat with the FIM-92 Stinger, a man-portable surface-to-air missile that could be used against enemy helicopters or unmanned aerial vehicles and to protect drop zones.

Army Sgt. Antonio Adams said he was just following his instincts when he helped several of his neighbors out of a burning building in Middletown, Ohio.

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After 10 years in the Army doing a job he loved, a blast in Kandahar changed everything for Sgt. 1st Class Jared Bullock. For his recovery, he turned his energy to fitness, which ultimately led to his new career as a gym owner in Illinois.

"Basically, the last thing she said to me was, 'Please, just don't leave me. Please, don't leave me here. Please, don't let go,'" Kalen Lawson said from his bed. He told her he'd stay and make sure she'd be OK, but then he heard his friend and two others yelling at a vehicle as it approached the accident scene.

The Army testing site in New Mexico welcomed Brig. Gen. Gregory Brady Friday during a ceremony that also honored Brig. Gen. Eric Sanchez, who is retiring from the job.

Officials at Fort Drum say the Army post's commanding general has returned from Iraq, where he was in charge of the Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command.

The Army has formally terminated its effort to develop a 25 mm airburst weapon, the largest of nearly three dozen ways a Pentagon watchdog has said the military could save $2.3 billion in defense spending.

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U.S. forces on rotation in Bulgaria wrapped up counterinsurgency training that included troops from Serbia, one of Moscow’s closest friends in Europe.

Five Letterkenny Army Deport employees were injured in an apparent explosion at Letterkenny Army Depot on July 19. One employee remains hospitalized while two others were treated and released the same day of the accident.

Army Sgt. Maliek Kearney has been found guilty in the 2015 murder of his wife, Pvt. Karlyn Ramirez, a 24-year-old soldier who was stationed at Fort Meade at the time of her death.

In a statement Thursday, Army Lt. Col. Nina L. Hill said the service was stopping the discharges in order to review the administrative separation process. The decision could impact hundreds of enlistees.

Col. Erich C. Spragg will oversee operations at Fort Meade, the second largest military installation in the U.S. by population and Maryland’s largest single employer, boasting a workforce of 56,000 people and 119 tenant organizations.

Even with two brigades now fighting in Afghanistan, and division headquarters set to deploy later this year, the 4th Infantry Division has started to shift its training to prepare away from counter-insurgency operations to aim for a fight with near-peer adversaries.

The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2019 includes $160 million for construction of two new buildings at West Point.

The nonprofit group Malama Makua is regaining cultural access to Makua Military Reservation, $80,000 in attorney fees and the Army's agreement to address an unexploded ordnance stockpile with the settlement stemming from a 2016 lawsuit.

The White House confirmed that President Donald Trump plans to visit Fort Drum on Monday to sign the bill, which would authorize several significant Defense Department increases, including servicemembers’ pay and the number of troops, equipment and weapons for the 2019 fiscal year.

Army Staff Sgt. Michael T. Jeffrey was wounded in Iraq in 2006. He received a Purple Heart in 2012 at the Warrior Transition Unit in Fort Knox, but it wasn't until he made it home that he realized it wasn't his medal. On Tuesday, nonprofit Purple Hearts Reunited righted that wrong in an emotional, official ceremony to bestow the honor.

A U.S. Army veteran who threatened to commit a mass shooting in Tuscaloosa nearly 10 years ago will remain in custody of Bryce Hospital.

The man accused of a January murder at a Myrtle Beach hotel killed himself on Sunday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Last month, 19 paratroopers from the brigade took part in a Combat Lifesaver Course — designed to teach non-medical soldiers how to provide trauma care in a battlefield situation.

Soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s 14th Engineer Battalion will begin training Thursday on wildland firefighting skills and could join firefighting efforts as soon as Monday, said Army Col. Rob Manning, a Pentagon spokesman.

Members of the 191st Regional Support Group Forward, who deployed to Afghanistan just months after helping rebuild their home island, bring weekly salsa dancing to NATO’s headquarters base.

Sgt. Maj. Christopher Nelms, a member of the U.S. Army's Delta Force, died after his parachute failed to open properly during a free-fall training jump, according to Army Special Operations Command.

A soldier with the 7th Infantry Division was found dead inside his Joint Base Lewis-McChord residence, the Army said.

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More than 150,000 people – including U.S. soldiers, their families and Germans – are expected to attend the biggest German-American celebration in the country through Sunday, Army officials said.

The U.S. Army said Friday that Pvt. 2nd Class Jeremy J. Wells, 19, of Adairsville, Ga., died Wednesday in a training accident at Fort Campbell.

In a change of command, Brig. Gen. Thomas Pugh assumed the duties of commanding general of the 7th Signal Command from Brig. Gen. Welton Chase Jr.

The surgeon general of the U.S. Army gave her take on military readiness and healthcare, among other topics, during a town hall at Fort Gordon on Thursday.

On Aug. 2, 2017, amid the bustle of a highway leading into Kandahar, Afghanistan, the cacophony of a 300-pound bomb cut short the lives of two 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers and changed countless others. A moment of silence was held in remembrance Thursday.

The post office in Fairview, Ill. will be formally renamed the Sergeant Douglas J. Riney Post Office during an Aug. 10 ceremony.

Most of the 82nd Airborne Division’s 18,000 paratroopers stood in formation Thursday to bid farewell to one commanding general and welcome another back among the All Americans.

The entire landline phone system on post went out of service Monday. Crews were putting together a new voice-over-internet protocol system to replace the one that went down. About 3 p.m. Thursday, the post reported most services had been restored

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A woman was killed and a 20-year-old soldier from Fort Hood was seriously injured in back-to-back hit and runs Thursday morning in Lakeland, Florida. The soldier had stopped to help the woman who was hurt in the first crash.

On Wednesday, at Fort Bragg’s John F. Kennedy Auditorium, officials from the Special Warfare Center and School, 1st Special Forces Command and U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command came together to celebrate the psyops mission.

The Army base along the Tennessee-Kentucky border says in a news release the 101st Airborne Division was conducting routine training at the time of Wednesday's accident.

Maj. Gen. Roger L. Cloutier took command of U.S. Army Africa on Thursday, a year after his two-star predecessor was fired for flirtatious texting.

U.S. Army Specialist Yea Ji Sea enlisted under a program that offered a fast track to citizenship. After more than four years of service, she was told she's being honorably discharged because of her immigration status, a move scheduled to take effect Friday. Without valid immigration status, she'll be subject to deportation.

Enlisted leaders took their first crack at the Army’s new combat fitness test this week at the largest U.S. base on the Korean Peninsula.

Sporadic city power outages connected to a heatwave in southern Germany have affected some operations at U.S. military installations in the Stuttgart area.

Waivers have long been used to enlist young people who might otherwise be unqualified for military service due to a wide array of medical, conduct or other reasons. Historically, the bulk of the waivers approved by all four military services involve a broad range of medical issues.

Two Army ROTC cadets lost overnight in a jungle warfare course in Wahiawa over the weekend ate strawberry guavas and ants to get by, said a Mililani man who helped them.

Sean Urbanski, who is white, is accused of stabbing Army 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III on the University of Maryland’s College Park campus in May 2017.

Live-fire training has resumed at Fort Hood now that firefighters have contained the wildfires in the post’s training area, according to a statement released Tuesday by Fort Hood.

Dominic Solazzo, president of the Midway Beach homeowners association in Berkeley Township, says he was horrified at the damage done Monday to a dune his members had painstakingly built up. "Everyone promised us they wouldn't touch the dunes," he said. "And the first ... thing they did was bulldoze our dune."

Christopher Fox was a member of the 728th Military Police Battalion at Schofield Barracks when he was arrested in August. The Army discharged him in December.

Military members from units across Fort Bragg will act as "realistic opposing forces and guerrilla freedom fighters" during a two-week "Robin Sage" exercise, known as the military's "premiere unconventional warfare exercise."

A soldier packed all 300 ounces of his guardsman wife's breast milk in a box with dry ice. And he says he paid $122 for Priority Mail Express one-day delivery through the U.S. Postal Service on July 18. It would never arrive.

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Staffers at an Army recreation facility at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park have technically been on administrative leave in May — but for now, they keep showing up for work.

Lt. Col. Curtis Kellogg, spokesman for the Army’s 25th Infantry Division, said two college students became lost while participating Saturday in land navigation training in Schofield Barracks East Range.

Col. Brian K. Wortinger is a West Point graduate and former company commander with the 4th Infantry Division when it was based in Texas. He took over as garrison commander at Fort Carson on July 6.

The change takes effect Wednesday when all three brigades begin reporting to Brig. Gen. Christopher LaNeve, whose Grafenwoehr headquarters is taking on higher-level responsibilities.

The 2nd Security Force Assistance Brigade is nearly at full strength. And the unit, the second of its kind in the Army, is already preparing for a deployment early next year.

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The Pennsylvania National Guard Recruiting and Retention Battalion partnered with the Gettysburg National Military Park to conduct a 12-mile ruck march Friday as part of the 2018 Best Warrior competition.

Former Provost Marshal Maj. Jay Guerrero, a 14-year veteran of the Army who served as the head of Stuttgart's military police and firefighters, pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated assault. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison for choking his wife during a fight in their home a year ago.

Education Adopt-a-School program during the 2017-18 school year and entered into agreements to continue their partnerships with schools in two county school districts.

Under Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy, who visited Fort Bragg on Thursday, spoke of the role that Futures Command — charged with leading the Army’s modernization efforts — will play and how that will likely affect Fort Bragg troops.

Pfc. Spencer Rose of Connersville, Indiana joined the Army in July 2017 and arrived at Fort Riley in March 2018. His body was found July 25 in an apartment in Grandview Plaza.

Cadmium, which is used in batteries, can be dangerous when not handled properly. It is a cancer-causing agent and can cause damage to kidneys and lungs depending on dosage and frequency of contact.

Col. Fernando Guadalupe Jr. was arrested on June 10 as part of an investigation that targeted people trying to solicit for prostitution or to solicit minors, according to authorities.

Soldiers stationed in New York, Texas and Colorado are slated to deploy this winter to Afghanistan and South Korea, the Army said Thursday.

Wildfires burning across the Fort Hood training area this week are now more than 80 percent contained, according to a statement from post officials.

Army Capt. James McCormick and his wife, Heather, and their two children have spent the last month traveling across the United States along the Purple Heart Trail in 16 states.

U.S. National Guardsmen have been battling humidity and heat in the 90s here as they work with Polish soldiers, constructing facilities to meet the needs of NATO’s revitalized mission in central and Eastern Europe.

The launch was another test of cooperation with the U.S. Navy — and all the other services eventually — that is part of a new “multidomain battle” construct seeking to integrate capabilities on future fast-moving battlefields.

Operation Devil Storm, which began on July 13 and ended earlier this week, was meant to test the abilities of the 1st Brigade Combat Team to adapt quickly amid a short-notice fight against a near-peer threat like China or Russia.

Three howitzer M-777 A-2 artillery guns will be tested in live fire practice at the Fort Chaffee Joint Maneuver Training Center on Saturday. The guns are new to U.S. military personnel in Arkansas, said Maj. John Chase with Arkansas National Guard.

Holmes Beach mayoral candidate Joshua Linney claims in his campaign biography that he served with the U.S. Army in Iraq and that he is a veteran of the first Gulf War.

Awarded to AC First LLC in August 2016 and valued at $429 million, the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract was intended to provide maintenance services on armored vehicles and weapons throughout Afghanistan, including on Bagram and Kandahar air fields. As of May, the Army had paid out close to $78 million on the contract.

Colorado Springs police said they found Army veteran Brandon Watkins “unresponsive and bloody” after his fianceé, Jacqueline Souza, 31, called 911 for an “unknown urgent medical assist.”

The soldier, who was participating in a combat support training exercise at Fort Hunter Liggett, reportedly left the post in a Humvee without authorization at an unknown time.

The fire has been burning for about four days and covers about 6,500 acres of the sprawling 214,000-acre post, officials said — adding it poses no immediate risk of leaving the installation boundary or threatening life or property.

The Beightler armory is home to a huge collection of Ohio National Guard artifacts, including post-World War II battle flags. As the historian for the Ohio Army National Guard, Sgt. 1st Class Josh Mann knows each of their stories intimately.

A Green Beret who fired on a civilian truck in Afghanistan showed “horribly poor judgment” during a deployment in which officers let soldiers drink alcohol and have sex in violation of military rules, the team’s enlisted leader stated in an Army investigation report.

A House and Senate panel agreed on Monday to a reconciled version of the National Defense Authorization Act, which could come up for a vote in the House as early as this week. For Europe, the NDAA spells out steps to counter and “if necessary, defeat Russian aggression.”

The body of Staff Sgt. Matthew R. Riggs was found the day after he reportedly dove off an 80-foot cliff.

The 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper, whose remains were missing for decades after the war, was laid to rest at Riverside National Cemetery in California.

A 29-year-old U.S. soldier was hospitalized after being found on Saturday in an unresponsive, drunken state next to his damaged car near the Bavarian village of Koefering, officials said.

The Fort Gordon that Col. Jim S. Clifford oversees today as garrison commander is not the Fort Gordon he trained at in the mid-1990s as a young officer.

Melvin Flath encountered a Frankenstein's monster of a vehicle — a boat and truck hybrid snatched up from a postwar surplus sale — and had an idea.

Army Secretary Mark Esper told a crowd on the final day of the Aspen Security Forum that the Army will need the ground-breaking war machines to keep ahead of rivals Russia and China, which are quickly upgrading their Soviet-style militaries into high-tech terrors.

A pioneering Women's Army Auxiliary Corps volunteer turned 100 Friday, and recounted her time as a typist behind the American World War II effort.

Three climbers near Maroon Bells were hoisted out of a mountainside gorge by a Blackhawk helicopter rescue crew Thursday evening, according to the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office.

Chandler Dunmeyer, free on $50,000 bond on a murder charge in the January death of Collee Muirhead, was a member of the Army's 82nd Airborne at the time of the killing.

There wasn't a welcome-home ceremony for the 40 or so members of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 238th Aviation Regiment as the guardsmen flew into the airport closest to their hometowns over the past two weeks. There will be an official ceremony later this fall.

The White Sands Missile Range Garrison Command passed from Col. Dave Brown to Col. Christopher J. Ward during a change of command ceremony held July 17.

The 18th Airborne Corps will deploy this fall to lead the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. And on Friday, the corps received reinforcements ahead of that mission.

The St. Louis-area division of defense contractor Leonardo DRS Inc. has been awarded a $193 million contract to install missile and rocket defense systems on the U.S. Army’s Abrams battle tanks.

Learning to wrestle Mongolian-style proved “a trip” for soldiers from the Oklahoma National Guard, who tried to flip, throw and grapple their opponents in a traditional Mongolian festival while deployed in Afghanistan.

The community is rallying around wounded soldier Hunter Josselyn by wearing red every Friday throughout the summer as part of the Remember Everyone Deployed campaign.

The Army will continue using the name Golden Knights and variations of it in connection with its parachute exhibition team.

Physicians at Fort Meade and the Army Wellness Center are working to help service members, DoD civilians, retirees and adult dependents acquire the knowledge to live a healthy life and avoid the chronic health conditions that can lead to an early death.