Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang was arraigned in federal court in Honolulu after a grand jury indicted him last week on four counts of attempting to provide material support to the group.

A Kansas man who tried to set off what he thought was a bomb at an Army post to support the Islamic State group was sentenced Monday to 30 years in federal prison.

The chapel, built in 1941 and dedicated in 1958 to all the soldiers who trained at Fort Jackson for World War II, is slated for demolition in October.

The 93-year-old Stokes twins became renowned for their exploits while fighting across North Africa and Europe as members of a tank destroyer crew, and are set to be recognized as Chevaliers of the Legion of Honor next month.

Eleven 173rd Airborne Brigade paratroopers injured during a nighttime jump in Romania were treated and released just hours after suffering minor sprains and twisted ankles, U.S. Army Europe said Monday.

Fort Bragg's new top cop, Col. Larry Dewey assumed command for the 16th Military Police Battalion on Friday during a traditional, although hot, ceremony at Fort Bragg's Main Post Parade Field.

A soldier has died after he was shot Saturday in Columbus, authorities said.

The U.S. Coast Guard says a launch from the Kodiak Island rocket complex in Alaska will occur as soon as next week.

On Oct. 15, 2018, the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Corps Band (62nd Army Band) will inactivate.

The new Air Defense Artillery training facility will include a 40,000-square-foot space to showcase museum items, as well as a research library and two classrooms for soldier training.

A federal grand jury in Hawaii has indicted a U.S. soldier for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State group.

As 33,000 troops take part in Talisman Saber war games near Rockhampton along the central Queensland coast, a small chapel overlooking a pasture serves as a reminder of when about 70,000 U.S. soldiers called the city home.

About 2,100 soldiers from Fort Polk in Louisiana will deploy to Iraq later this year to take over the mission to train and advise Iraqi security forces fighting Islamic State militants following the fall of Mosul, the Army announced Thursday.

The new court-appointed defense attorney for alleged Theresa shooter and Fort Drum soldier Justin Walters said the military could do more to support its personnel after overseas deployments.

She’s the first African-American surgeon general in Army history, the first black female Army officer to earn three stars and the highest-ranking woman ever to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy.

The U.S. plans to deploy a Patriot missile battery, helicopters and a National Guard tank company to neutral Sweden in September to join one of the largest drills in that country in decades, but the move isn’t a direct response to Russia’s concurrent Zapad war game, U.S. Army Europe’s Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges said.

A colonel with strong ties to El Paso has played an important behind-the-scenes role with the Army's modernization mission at Fort Bliss during the past three years.

President Donald Trump has selected a Raytheon executive and Gulf War veteran to lead the military’s largest service, in his third attempt to fill the Army secretary job, according to an administration official.

A new concrete-stamped patio, gazebo, fire pit, fresh landscaping and new lawn furniture were added to provide some sparkle -- free of cost and compliments of Patios for Patriots.

Michael A. Grinston, the newest command sergeant major of U.S. Army Forces Command, assumed responsibility for his new position in a ceremony Tuesday.

The Rapid City-based 216th Engineer Detachment is a three-member firefighting team. The soldiers will be serving nine months in Romania, supporting U.S. and international operations in Europe.

The alleged killer of two people in Theresa, Justin Walters, will not receive his military pay as criminal charges against him proceed in local court.

More than 200 soldiers in a New York Army National Guard until will head to Europe in October for a nine-month mission to train Ukrainian forces. Troops from Canada and four European nations are also part of the training mission.

Maj. Gen. Scott McKean took command of the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division on Tuesday, inheriting a combined force that is gearing up to complete a long-delayed relocation south even as it faces a growing threat from North Korea.

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One hundred and fifty U.S. troops more accustomed to training in Alaska’s extreme cold found themselves trudging Down Under in the tropical heat this week.

Jessica Faulkner didn't try to hold back her tears. The mother of Pvt. Dustin Faulkner was saying goodbye to her 19-year-old son as the 115th Expeditionary Signal Battalion of the National Guard was honored at a deployment ceremony at Huntsville High School.

A new fellowship program in the Pikes Peak region is helping veterans translate their military skills into jobs with local government.

A staff sergeant with the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade faces trial this week in Germany on charges that he murdered his infant son in 2015.

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U.S. scouts sneaked across the river in darkness, looking to eliminate an enemy seeking to stymie the advance of allied forces waiting on the other side.

Dozens of visitors to Fort Bragg last month found themselves thrust into the center of a conflict that has been raging for more than 50 years.

U.S. Rep. William Keating's office announced Friday that the U.S. House of Representatives had approved an amendment to expand tick-testing services for members of the military.

Col. Michael Simmering took command of the 3rd Armored Brigade, 4th Infantry Division on Saturday in Romania, where he will lead the Fort Carson-based unit through the final leg of a nine-month tour along NATO’s eastern flank.

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Artillery thundered, Apache helicopters blasted their guns and MiG-21 fighters screeched across the sky as more than 4,200 troops fought an enemy in a large-scale war game designed to ready soldiers for a sophisticated adversary.

Army Maj. Gen. Robin Fontes on Saturday assumed the highest position of any female servicemember in Afghanistan since the war began, taking over command of Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan.

In an example of extreme live-action role-playing, U.S. Special Forces candidates from Fort Bragg are staging a mock war in and around Mecklenburg County this month, as part of a secretive military exercise against the fictitious country of Pineland.

Around 100 artifacts have been discovered at an archaeological site near the first U.S. Army post in the Northwest.

A group of soldiers from U.S. Army Europe has been rising as early as 3:30 a.m. at least once a week, preparing since March for four days of extreme exertion set to kick off on Tuesday.

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Tears, cheers, hugs and applause have warmed the welcome home for Nebraska Army National Guard members who just returned from a challenging deployment in Iraq.

The lawyer for an Army soldier accused of pledging his support and allegiance to the Islamic State says the government knew or should have known that Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Erik Kang was suffering from mental illness but, instead of helping him, continued to exploit Kang’s condition until he committed a crime.

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Cadets from West Point and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst are training at U.S. bases in Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels, Germany, as part of the Dynamic Victory exercise.

Capt. Patrick S. Jones, who was from California, joined the Army in October 2010 and had been assigned to the 1st Space Brigade, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command.

The soldier seen in a viral image standing outside his Jeep at a stoplight in the rain to salute a funeral procession has been identified as Colonel Jack L. Usrey. "I just did what my parents taught me to do growing up," he said.

A soldier accused of wanting to commit a mass shooting after pledging loyalty to ISIS believed the moon landing was faked, questioned the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and thought the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were an inside job coordinated by the U.S. government, according to a former Army bunkmate.

The 1st Armored Division on Wednesday assumed command of the multinational land component of the U.S.-led anti-Islamic State coalition from the 1st Infantry Division, which had led it since November.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade soldier charged in connection with the spectacular destruction last year of three Humvees that slipped free from their parachutes during a drop is not a parachute rigger. He is a Germany-based scout who’d been assigned to assist the brigade’s Italy-based parachute riggers during the exercise, authorities said.

The Raleigh Recruiting Battalion recruits over more than 40,000 square miles. But when the unit changed leaders on Wednesday morning, it chose to do so in Fayetteville.

A man who identified as the Nichole Walters' brother said Tuesday that her family is, at this time, too grief-stricken and shocked by her death to talk about what happened.

U.S. Army Col. Anthony Tyrone Roper from Ft. Gordon, his wife Audra Roper and a third co-defendant, Dwayne Oswald Fulton, all appeared for their initial appearance and arraignment at the federal courthouse in Augusta on Tuesday before Magistrate Judge Brian K. Epps.

Col. Neal A. Corson took command on Wednesday of the U.S. Army’s garrison here, which is home to 24,000 Americans and two four-star combatant commands.

A battalion-size unit of National Guardsmen is joining the NATO force in Kosovo, 18 years after the war that led the alliance to assume responsibility for security in the former Serbian province.

Maj. Gen. Ryan Gonsalves, who leads the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Infantry Division, will soon be tapped to serve as the next commander of U.S. Army Europe, according to a report.

The Army knew Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang had shown support for Islamic State years ago. But he stayed in the service, deploying to Afghanistan in 2013. The case highlights the challenges investigators face with protecting the public from a potentially dangerous actor on one hand and gathering sufficient evidence to enable prosecution on the other.

After two years leading some of the Army’s most specialized air defense soldiers, Col. Joseph McCallion Jr. relinquished command to Col. Charles Branson during a ceremony in Qatar

"He's far from being a bad kid," Clifford Kang said of his only son, Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang. He said he was devastated when he learned the FBI arrested his son over the weekend for alleged ties to the terrorist group Islamic State.

The 8th Army marked the inauguration of its new headquarters on Tuesday, a milestone in more than a decade of efforts to relocate the bulk of U.S. Forces Korea south of Seoul.

Dominick Mariutto, 23, is stationed at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, according to the charges. Jail records show he was released from custody Friday after posting a $100,000 bond.

The outgoing 2nd Infantry Division commander defended the use of rotational forces as the best way to maintain readiness against an increasingly threatening North Korea despite a recent report concluding that forward-based units would be more efficient.

Despite his many injuries, Gay never received a Purple Heart, a military honor issued for being wounded or killed in enemy action.

An episode of the free podcast will be released every other week, officials said. It is available through iTunes, Google Play, YouTube and various other services.

Lance Vogeler was killed in a battle with insurgents in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on Oct. 1, 2010.

A soldier from Joint Base Lewis-McChord was killed by Washington state troopers in an apparent "suicide by cop" Saturday morning.

It’s been less than a year since soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group returned from an Africa deployment. But in a way, the soldiers have never left.

Instead of just a demonstration team, the Black Daggers are now a recruiting tool, working hand in hand with the Special Operations Recruiting Battalion.

In Eagle River, where military families make up a significant part of the community, The Homestead plays a vital role, according to the people who gather there.

Given his pick among all of the Army’s two-star generals, Gen. Robert “Abe” Abrams knew exactly who he wanted as his No. 2 at U.S. Army Forces Command. On Friday, Abrams welcomed Lt. Gen. Laura J. Richardson to Fort Bragg.

After 50 years of standing behind his barber chair, Fort Bragg leaders pulled Bell out into the open Friday to honor him for his decades of service.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, America’s quick-reaction force for Europe and Africa, received a new commander on Friday.

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Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta handed over his Medal of Honor to the 173rd Airborne Brigade, saying it should recognize the unit as a whole.

An Army veteran whom a Tacoma police officer ran over as the man lay in the street after a night of drinking in 2014 has sued the cop and the Police Department.

After a two-day search, rescuers recovered the body of a 23-year-old Fort Benning soldier who went missing Monday afternoon in the Chattahoochee River.

The federal government and Sikorsky have signed a five-year, $3.8 billion contract for 257 Black Hawk helicopters to be delivered to the U.S. Army and overseas military customers.

Top state officials are going to be in Newport, Vermont, to mark a $98 million contract at a local factory to produce nearly 294,000 helmets for the U.S. Army.

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The U.S. Army and its NATO allies are working hard to upgrade one of the Ukrainian army’s aging training bases to give its troops a more realistic sense of a modern battlefield.

A former Fort Bliss soldier was sentenced to more than a decade in prison in South Florida after he pleaded guilty to selling methamphetamine while in his Army uniform to an undercover federal agent.

Several people were arrested after a fight allegedly broke out and a weapon was fired at a party held in off-post Army housing early Saturday morning, Fort Bliss officials said.

A 19-year-old Texas-based soldier was killed Monday in an attack in Afghanistan’s volatile Helmand province, the Pentagon said Wednesday. Two other soldiers were injured.

A sergeant with the 173rd Airborne Brigade has been charged in connection with the spectacular destruction of three Humvees that plummeted to the ground from a C-130 during a parachute drop in Germany last year.

Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, who has designed the U.S. Army’s efforts to intensify operations in the Baltics and Poland since Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, will join a think tank focused on security in central and Eastern Europe when he retires in September.

The soldiers were among about 3,700 with their brigade that were deployed to South Korea in October 2016, where they trained with their allies and helped to secure the South Korean border.

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The exercise came as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confirmed that North Korea fired an ICBM on Tuesday, a move that sharply raises the stakes in the international standoff over the communist state’s nuclear weapons program.

When America celebrates its 241st birthday Tuesday, the country will come alive with music, parades, cookouts and fireworks, from sea to shining sea. On the job in Washington, D.C., though, will be two U.S. soldiers, both longtime military professionals who instead of rifles carry Kanstul B-flat bugles.

The garrison commander at Fort Bliss will soon be changing jobs, but he won’t be going too far away.

On the outside, it looks like a sporty version of a mid-sized Chevrolet pickup. But the Army has little interest in its camouflage-chic paint job, its custom wheels or its knobby tires. The Army wants what's under the hood.

Evidence that a soldier and a Navy Seal who were injured on missions to search for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will be permitted during the sentencing portion of his court-martial, according to a ruling from the military judge on Friday.

Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commanding general of the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg and Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, said he hopes the U.S.-led coalition has a role in Iraq long after ISIS is driven from that country, working with Iraqi forces to ensure they are trained and capable of facing the nation's threats.

When Alex Cabral began crafting paddleboards, he added a fallen soldier’s name and rank on the edge of each new product. The idea first came to him from the KIA-memorial bracelets that he and his Ranger buddies wear.

The judge in the 9/11 case on Friday froze the proceedings, putting next month’s pretrial hearings on hold over a new policy that denies him a fast boat across Guantanamo Bay, a change that he said would prevent him from sequestering himself from other war court travelers such as terror victims, witnesses and reporters.

An emerging plan by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could imperil access to canal water during an extreme drought, just when farmers need it most. What's afoot is the corps' decision to create a first-time plan to protect the dam works' infrastructure that separates the enormous Lake Sakakawea in North Dakota from its smaller sidekick, Lake Audubon, in a drought scenario.

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Ukrainian soldiers training with the Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine dug into fighting positions and fought a mock defensive battle with NATO allies and partner nations at the Yavoriv Combat Training Center on Thursday and Friday.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has declared a disaster emergency to add resources for crews battling a wildfire in the southwest part of the state.

The Army judge overseeing Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s court-martial declined to drop the rare misbehavior charge that could land the former Taliban captive in prison for the rest of his life.

Lawmakers in Congress want to increase the size of the Army in 2018, but the House and Senate disagree on how many more soldiers the service should add next year.

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Maj. Gen. Steven A. Shapiro took command Friday of the Army’s sustainment forces in Europe, which over the past two years have enabled one of the largest movements of ammunition, armor and troops back to the Continent since the end of the Cold War.

A soldier stationed at the Fort Bragg Army base in North Carolina was arrested by local authorities on a Polk County, Fla., warrant for 10 felony counts of possession of child pornography.

Fort Gordon is wrapping up an experiment that pairs soldiers and new technology in an effort to make the military more agile in the ever-changing world of cyberwarfare.