A former U.S. Army sniper and two other former U.S. soldiers were convicted Wednesday in the contract killing of a real estate agent in the Philippines for an international crime boss who thought the woman had cheated him on a land deal.

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Music can build bridges and touch the heart. Fort Bliss' 1st Armored Division Band used that as its theme during its recent deployment to the Middle East, along with the division headquarters.

The Army’s 3rd Cavalry Regiment will deploy in the spring to Iraq, the 101st Airborne Sustainment Brigade will deploy to Afghanistan in the summer and the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade will deploy to Eastern Europe, Army officials said in separate statements.

A soldier nearly crashed a Humvee into a river, another soldier led police on a chase before crashing into a tree, and a third soldier was seriously injured in a collision in three separate traffic incidents in Bavaria on Tuesday.

When he retired in 1981, Maj. Gen. Michael D. Healy was the nation's most senior Special Forces soldier. He was a veteran of wars in Korea and Vietnam, with his service in the latter spanning a decade and ending with him overseeing the withdrawal of troops from the country. And he was the inspiration for John Wayne's character in the 1968 film "The Green Berets."

Holding still is an essential skill for a sniper, but sometimes, it's got to be hard.

A car going the wrong way through a gate at Camp Humphreys prompted authorities to lock down the facility on Wednesday, but it was a false alarm, a spokesman said.

Pvt. Jacob S. Malcolm, 18, was found dead from a gunshot wound. He served as an infantry rifleman assigned to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division.

A volunteer flotilla of pleasure boats, fishing boats and personal watercraft joined a U.S. Army Chinook, a Hawaii Air National Guard Black Hawk and two Kauai County Fire Department helicopters ferrying stranded campers, hikers, tourists and residents out of the tiny, storm-isolated community of Haena on Kauai.

Flintlock 2018, Special Operations Command Africa’s largest military exercise, is focused on the fight against a wide range of terrorist groups operating in the region.

A jury in the state of Georgia has been chosen to hear the case of a man charged with killing a U.S. Army officer in 2004.

A 7th Special Forces Group soldier was arrested Sunday evening on an open count of homicide after he allegedly shot and killed his estranged wife.

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More than 100 U.S. soldiers got tattooed at the Tattoo Expo Grafenwoehr, getting everything from motivational art of their unit logos to colorful drawings of their favorite superheroes and realistic portraits of loved ones and pets.

Kallen O’Neal Staggs, 9, whose father died in Afghanistan in 2010, walked more than 10 miles during Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range, N.M.

The U.S. Army is training troops to use 3D printers to build concrete barracks, or to use drones to gather intelligence in contaminated spots that might be dangerous for soldiers.

Futures Command will be tasked with leading and streamlining modernization efforts across the Army. Officials have said they want to co-locate the command in a city with potential academic and technological partners.

It's rare for father and son to serve in the same brigade. Rarer still for the two to jump together as paratroopers. But on Fort Bragg, that could soon become the norm for Cpl. Michael Cooke and his father Master Sgt. Travis Cooke who are assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.

Fort Drum Mountain Community Homes said about 35 of about 155 three- and four-bedroom homes for company-grade officers have been completed.

Throughout the fight, Army Staff Sgt. Michael Young displayed an “extraordinary ability to maintain composure in a terrifyingly chaotic situation,” his award citation reads.

Crowder College invited several speakers to share their knowledge and expertise on Mort Walker’s life and the adventures of soldiers stationed at Camp Crowder.

Colorado's congressional delegation and Gov. John Hickenlooper have sent a letter urging the Army to keep Fort Carson's 2nd Brigade Combat Team in town after it trades its infantry marching boots for armored vehicles.

The inaugural class of the All American Hall of Fame will be unveiled May 23 during the 82nd Airborne Division’s All American Week at Fort Bragg.

Pvt. Julian Diaz, 19, of Tolleson, Ariz., died in a vehicle crash at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., on Tuesday.

Retired Gen. Marcia Anderson says her path to success was littered with inaccurate, negative labels placed on her by others that she shook off and used for motivation rather than let them deter her.

A primary role of the National Guard posted to the Mexico border will be to provide added aerial surveillance, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection told Congress on Thursday.

U.S. Army spokesman Paul Boyce said alarms were triggered around 1 p.m. Thursday in the building that houses U.S. Army Forces Command and U.S. Army Reserve Command. About 800 people were evacuated.

Increased funding has helped the Army restore some of the combat readiness eroded in recent years by budget cuts and increased workload, but senior service leaders warned lawmakers Thursday a return to sequestration in 2020 would rapidly diminish those improvements.

A new task force is devoted to improving the most important yet long overlooked portion of the American military — the infantry.

On the day Sgt. Ricky Beckles was awarded a Bronze Star for saving lives in an ambush in Afghanistan, he remembered a guardsman who died in the attack.

A Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier was killed Tuesday during a training accident at the National Training Center in California, the Army announced Wednesday.

A former Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier who killed his wife will get credit for time he served on electronic home monitoring before he was convicted, an appellate court said this week.

California on Wednesday joined the plan to deploy National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, as federal and state officials face challenges in boosting security to stop illegal immigration.

A member of the 82nd Airborne accused of shooting a woman in the head, killing her at a Ocean Boulevard hotel, could soon post bond and leave jail.

A key U.S. senator is pressing the Army to set aside one of its new Security Forces Assistant Brigades for missions in Africa, which are now being carried out by a mix of rotating units.

Warfighting exercises are common across the U.S. Army, but officials said an iteration with conventional, special operations and foreign forces operating in a largely virtual environment is the first of its kind.

A 39-year-old U.S. Army Ranger instructor has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a minor and giving her alcohol.

Army defense chiefs, military attaches and other senior officers from about 40 African nations will meet in Nigeria’s capital next week to discuss security cooperation on the continent.

A report of a pipe bomb Monday night at the Burley Army National Guard Armory turned out to be a false alarm.

Though only trace amounts, rainfall overnight helped with firefighters' efforts to extinguish the flame, said Fort Carson spokeswoman Brandy Gill.

Well-educated Army recruits in the Military Accessions Vital to National Interest program are finding themselves sidelined and under suspicion, many stalled wherever they were when the rules changed in late 2016.

The Army pilots killed Friday when their AH-64E Apache helicopter crashed in Kentucky were a 17-year veteran of the service and a Marine-turned-Army aviator, according to military officials.

Richard Overton, believed to be the oldest living American and the third-oldest person in the world, got a chance to see the National Museum of African American History. His secret to a long life includes cigars, whiskey and speaking his mind.

The focus of the two-week Flintlock 2018, which involves eight African and 12 western countries, is the day-to-day threats faced by local forces on the ground, according to the top U.S. commander of special operations troops in Africa.

A seemingly moderate wildfire on Fort Carson suddenly exploded to 2,800 acres within a few hours Sunday night, Army officials said.

The newspaper began at the height of the Vietnam War in 1968, a year that brought the Tet Offensive by North Vietnamese forces and the deaths of almost 17,000 American troops. Now, due to rising print costs, Hawaii Army Weekly will only be available online.

The two soldiers killed in Friday’s Apache helicopter crash on Fort Campbell have been identified by Army officials as Chief Warrant Officer 3 Ryan Connolly and Warrant Officer James Casadona.

Gov. Kay Ivey said she is consulting with Alabama’s military leaders to determine if the state has adequate National Guard resources to send troops to the U.S./Mexico border if requested by the White House.

Soldiers from the 525th Military Intelligence Brigade paused to discuss sexual assault and authored messages in support of survivors as part of the nationwide Clothesline Project event.

Two soldiers were killed Friday when an AH-64E Apache helicopter crashed at Fort Campbell.

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Humans took a backseat during an exercise at Grafenwoehr in which robots cleared obstacles for manned tanks and fighting vehicles. “This is a great step forward for the Army, and for robotics,” said a soldier with the 1st Infantry Division’s 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team.

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Soldiers and families at U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria got a little dirty Saturday and enjoyed the German sunshine during the 6th annual Grafenwoehr Rugged Terrain Obstacle Run.

Friday's test at White Sands Missile Range demonstrated that the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, and the Patriot weapons systems could communicate as an integrated system.

Sources say Bradley Kinser, the former U.S. Army Africa major who killed himself and his Russian-born wife in Italy last week, had been was acting paranoid, irritable and combative at his job in recent weeks.

Violet Davis never lost hope. From the time her husband, Sgt. 1st Class Finley James Davis, left for Korea in 1950, until her death in Charleston, South Carolina in 1999, members of her family said their matriarch clung to the memory of the love of her life.

Miss America's Outstanding Teen, Alabama's Jessica Baeder, will soon add another title to her name: cadet. She said she has accepted an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

The U.S. Army has tapped Maj. Gen. Roger L. Cloutier Jr. to serve as the next head of U.S. Army Africa, where he will oversee efforts to train indigenous forces for counterterrorism fights on the continent. Cloutier will arrive after a period of tumult for U.S. Army Africa headquarters.

A $60 million power project overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Afghanistan couldn’t be powered up for fear it would put Afghan lives at risk, and shoddy work could leave the system structurally unstable, a government watchdog found.

The U.S. Army will probably hold on to Mannheim’s Coleman Barracks until at least 2021 because of the base’s key role in stockpiling equipment for the military’s beefed-up Europe mission.

The Army’s Pohakuloa Training Area on Hawaii Island 100,000-acre training area is one of the few the military has available for land-based live-fire drills in the Pacific.

Army Spc. Christopher Harris was killed in August by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan when his wife, Brittany Harris, was just six weeks pregnant. Brittany said she wanted their daughter's newborn photo shoot to capture her husband's spirit.

Mourners during a ceremony Tuesday at the chapel on Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, where Penree had served as second -in-command, remembered him as a family man, one of deep faith and a soldier who loved his country.

The Army is spending about $3.5 million over nearly two months to search for unexploded ordnance off Makua Beach after a 5-inch projectile was found offshore in 2016, officials said.

Army Sgt. Carl Seeman, a 25-year-old cannon crewmember, had returned to Fort Bragg on Tuesday, said Lt. Col. Joe Buccino, a spokesman for the 82nd Airborne Division. It was not immediately clear what, if any, punishment Seeman would face for his time missing.

"Bloody Sunday" resulted in 53 aircraft being shot down and 660 air crew members being killed, including Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. William H. Harth Jr. For decades, Harth's remains had been buried, unidentified, in a Belgian cemetery.

Maj. Bradley Kinser, formerly a strategic intelligence research officer for U.S. Army Africa who retired in 2015, and his wife, Leila, were found dead in their home.

Carl Seeman was found early today in the Yadkin Road corridor by detectives with the Fayetteville Police Department. He has been reunited with his family, police said in a news release.

The Joint Modernization Command will host its next modernization exercise, called the Joint Warfighting Assessment, in Germany from late April into May. It will feature more than 6,500 troops from 11 U.S.

A U.S.-based air defense artillery brigade has formally begun its mission in Germany, marking the first deployment of such a unit to Europe since the post-Cold War drawdown.

U.S. and South Korean forces discovered seven pieces of ordnance, including a mortar and a sabot penetrating round, at a village outside of Rodriguez Live Fire Range during an unprecedented cleanup operation last week, Army officials said.

The battered aluminum canteen was given to Roy Gallagher's 90-year-old widow 73 years after he lost it while fighting to liberate France.

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Seventeen years in the infantry have turned Army 1st Sgt. Shaun Morgan into a hard-charging grunt, but the veteran of five combat tours who recently deployed to Afghanistan is prepared to take a back seat and let that nation’s forces lead the fight.

Army officials say the service is seeking to quickly build its Security Force Assistance Brigades, units designed to shoulder the bulk of the Pentagon’s train, advise and assist missions throughout the world. That is why the Army is seeking funding to build three SFABs — it has begun assembling two — in fiscal year 2019.

More than 300 people joined Jay Gibson's family in his former school auditorium for the community funeral.

U.S. Army Master Sgt. Jonathan J. Dunbar of Austin, Texas and U.K. Sgt. Matt Tonroe died Friday after an improvised explosive device detonated near a patrol in Manbij, Syria.

A few hundred feet from the building where he checked into 3rd Special Forces Group in 2003, Command Sgt. Maj. Bruce W. Holmes relinquished his responsibilities as the group's senior enlisted leader on Thursday.

The Secretary of the Army said it was “quite a challenge” keeping up with current fights in Afghanistan and Iraq while preparing for the conflicts of the future. “We have supplies at one level, and the demand on our forces is at a much higher level,” said Mark T. Esper.

Lt. Col. John W. Penree became deputy commander at Little Creek-Fort Story in April 2015. He was found dead in his home on base Tuesday.

Just nine months ago, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Lindsey Muller was feted as a guest speaker at an Army-sponsored LGBT pride observance at Camp Humphreys. Now she’s worried she may lose her job after nearly two decades of honorable service.

Army Aviation forces will begin leaving area towns on April 10 to “fight” their way back into Fort Drum. On the ground, 10th Mountain Division’s Artillery experts will use simulators to mimic modern air defense systems.

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More than a dozen M1A2 Abrams tanks and M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles from the 1st Infantry Division’s 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team joined forces Wednesday with several AH-64 Apache helicopters from the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade and conducted the combined-arms exercise, to prepare them for Combined Resolve 10, a major multinational drill next month.

Army First Lt. Garlin Murl Conner, who left the U.S. Army as the 2nd-most decorated soldier during World War II, will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor after his family and others pressed for the recognition for more than 20 years.

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The Army sent a group of veterinarians to the region aboard the Virginia Beach-based USNS Spearhead as part of Operation Continuing Promise, which focuses on providing free medical care to local populations.

Sgt. Carl Seeman, 25, was classified as absent without leave after he failed to report to his unit. Fayetteville police located Seeman’s truck in a local Walmart parking lot with his cell phone inside.

The Army’s plan to add two “static detonation chambers” to the Pueblo Chemical Depot could be complete in about 18 months because officials are moving ahead on several fronts at once.

Gen. Robert B. “Abe” Abrams, the commanding general of U.S. Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, wants industry and military leaders to think outside the box when it comes to the Army’s future ground combat vehicle.

About 300 soldiers from 3rd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment – Fort Bliss’ heavy attack reconnaissance squadron – did a rotation at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., in February.

The Army is rolling out more details on its planned new Futures Command at a major military conference in Huntsville this week, but the city that will be home to the command is still a mystery.

Facing one of the driest years in decades, Fort Carson leaders say they've taken extra steps to stop fires like last week's blaze that spread from a training area on post to a rural neighborhood, burning two homes.

Andrew Armour, 25, was working as a U.S. Army Active Duty and Reserves Recruiter in Shelby, while his younger brother had not completed high school and was having trouble holding down a job in Ohio. At the age of 22, Kevin was at risk of becoming homeless.

Fort Bragg culinary specialists flaunted their prowess — from deconstructing chickens to perfectly grilling filet mignon in a field kitchen — during a military cooking competition earlier this month.

The departure of H.R. McMaster as the Trump administration's national security adviser sent shock waves Thursday through Colorado Springs, where the three-star general is remembered as the highly-intelligent and hard-nosed commander of Fort Carson's 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment.

The next generation of influencers and peace-keeping professionals has joined the 100-year-old legacy of Civil Affairs service.

Rep. Elise M. Stefanik has invited President Donald J. Trump to visit Fort Drum during his first term in office.

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Army base's initiative rewards soldiers and families who take their health into their own hands.

Xaver Boston, an Army Reservist, is charged with crimes carrying a sentence of 15 years to life, mandatory restitution and a $250,000 fine.