"We have to remember that one thing - that it wasn't just one soldier who lost his life," said Berchel Davis, a retired police officer who has six children in the military. He said the preacher and Rep. Frederica Wilson both made that a part of their talks. "That was a good gesture on everyone's part."

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will learn his fate inside a Fort Bragg courtroom next week when defense attorneys and prosecutors will spar over the circumstances surrounding the soldier’s decision to walk off his combat outpost in Afghanistan some eight years ago.

For nearly three decades, retired Army Capt. Gary Michael Rose told no one about his harrowing four-day secret mission to Laos during the Vietnam War.

As an 82nd Airborne Division veteran, Richard Clapp had trained for this moment. But a disaster stole it from him and ended his Army career. On March 23, 1994, Clapp was among more than 170 soldiers who were injured in the so-called Green Ramp Disaster at Fort Bragg. Twenty-four other soldiers died that day.

GALLERY

Noting that past winners have included everyone from Gen. Douglas MacArthur to his own father, former President George W. Bush said his selection "arouses a sense of pride and humility in me."

U.S. Army helicopters arrived in Belgium on Friday to begin a nine-month rotation providing close-air support for units stationed in Europe.

A group of soldiers spread around the world synchronized their watches to go on a formation “run around the world” Friday to show that while they may be separated geographically, they are still one unit.

The Louisiana National Guard says 1,000 people gathered to send off a group deploying to the Kuwait area.

The U.S. military is searching for answers into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of four U.S. soldiers killed two weeks ago in an ambush in Niger as Defense Secretary Jim Mattis conceded Thursday that little about the attack is known, including how one soldier became separated from the rest of his unit.

The deployment, a part of Operation Atlantic Resolve 2.0, had soldiers mostly in Germany, with others spread to Latvia, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland. It was the brigade’s first deployment to Europe.

During a life cut short by war, Staff Sgt. Bryan Christopher Black lived as much as any man could. He was a Green Beret, medic, father, son, husband, chess master, cigar aficionado, coffee connoisseur, and master of many skills – including poker, carpentry, stock trading and martial arts. But most of all, Black, 35, was a man who never settled.

Last year, the Defense Department received 6,172 reports of sexual assault in the ranks - a new high and almost twice as many as were reported in 2010. Pentagon officials have called the increase an encouraging sign that more victims are willing to come forward and trust the military to help them.

VIDEO, GALLERY

Black Hawk helicopters yo-yoed up and down at a semi-abandoned post near Korea’s tense Demilitarized Zone on Thursday, as more than 150 soldiers trained to earn their air-assault wings.

German authorities removed an unexploded, World War II-era bomb from a construction site for a new school at the U.S. Army’s Grafenwoehr Training Area on Wednesday night.

The competition honors the memory of Mills, an El Pasoan and Special Forces soldier who was killed in Afghanistan in 2009.

The U.S. Military Academy's Association of Graduates will present the Thayer Award to the 43rd president on Thursday night. The award is given to citizens whose service in the national interest reflects the academy's motto of "Duty, Honor, Country."

To those who knew him, Sgt. La David Terrence Johnson was a loving husband who had his wife's name tattooed across his chest, a soldier who pushed to improve himself, and a son who enjoyed talking about his family.

The Army has postponed the looming retirement of chief war crimes prosecutor Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, who will stay in the job “for at least another two years,” a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday.

The Utah National Guard has broken ground on a new $37 million facility at Camp Williams, Utah.

Discovery of an unexploded WWII-era bomb closed a base gate and parts of a major road near a U.S. Army base in Grafenwoehr, Germany on Wednesday.

A retired major general will face a court-martial on charges alleging he raped a child over a six-year period while on active duty in the 1980s.

Another contingent of National Guard members from New York is preparing to depart for Puerto Rico to help the U.S. territory recover from Hurricane Maria.

The 11th Engineer Battalion will replace the stateside rotational engineer battalions U.S. forces in Korea had been relying on since 2015.

Stars and Stripes spoke to some troops who expressed they aren't keen on buying another outfit barely two years after the Army phased out green office clothes and an older dress uniform.

Pvt. Timothy Ashcraft and Pvt. Ethan Shrader were killed Oct. 6 at Fort Jackson when a military vehicle drove into a troop formation in a collision that also injured six other soldiers in training.

Richard Collins III was stabbed to death on May 20 at the University of Maryland, days before he was set to graduate from Bowie State University. He had just been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

About 500 people lined both sides of Ramsey Street on Monday as the bodies of of Staff Sgt. Bryan Black and Staff Sgt. Jeremiah W. Johnson arrived at Jernigan-Warren Funeral Home.

A U.S. Army helicopter pilot had a laser shined into the cockpit Sunday evening while flying over Schmidtmuehle, Germany, near the Hohenfels Training Area.

The 200 reserve soldiers of the 2nd Space Battalion in Colorado Springs will back up their active-duty comrades to make sure troops in the field have the signals they need from space.

A broken community of family, friends and fellow soldiers united to remember Spc. Alexander Missildine's life and bring the fallen soldier to his final resting place.

U.S. military reservists who travel a long way to serve — and in some cases spend their drill pay to do so — may see their expenses reduced by as much as two-thirds as the Pentagon considers changes to the reserve travel policy as a retention tool.

The 2nd Infantry Division unveiled a statue of a soldier giving President Donald Trump’s signature thumbs-up at its headquarters in South Korea on Monday.

Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges’ three-year tenure at USAREUR has been arguably the most consequential in Europe since the end of the Cold War, with the Army serving as the centerpiece of the Pentagon’s efforts to energize what had been a languishing military mission.

On Monday, Fort Hood officials confirmed Master Sgt. Alva Joe Gwinn was a soldier who entered active-duty military service as a combat engineer and had been stationed in Fort Hood since 2012.

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl pleaded guilty Monday to charges that he deserted his Afghanistan combat post and misbehaved before the enemy, acts he told a judge were “very inexcusable” and endangered his fellow troops.

Army-funded researchers at Cornell University have created a membrane that mimics octopus skin, a development that could change how soldiers conceal themselves on future battlefields.

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is expected to plead guilty Monday to charges that he endangered comrades by walking away from a remote post in Afghanistan in 2009.

Philip Bracken Fleming was a junior officer during the first World War, and served seven years at West Point as an instructor of engineering, post engineer officer, commander of engineer troops and graduate manager of athletics.

The page says Pvt. Hannah New was critically injured and will need continued care and psychological counseling. It has a goal to reach $3,000 to aid New and her family.

Jose Antonio Velazquez has served in Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea, Haiti, Japan and mostly recently in a high-ranking public affairs position at the Pentagon.

A man who led authorities on a chase along Texas 195 in Bell County and exchanged gunfire with officers Thursday appears to have died after ultimately shooting himself in the head.

Killed in the incident were Pvt. Ethan Shrader, from Prospect, Tenn., and Pvt. Timothy Ashcraft, from Cincinnati, Ohio. Six others were injured in the crash.

The two-star general who heads U.S. Army Africa has been fired and recalled to Washington, amid allegations he had an inappropriate relationship with the wife of an enlisted soldier, the Army said Friday.

ANALYSIS

Some eight years after Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked off his combat outpost in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, he is expected to plead guilty Monday to charges he deserted his unit and misbehaved before the enemy, endangering his fellow soldiers.

A group of Fort Drum aviators are being praised for helping to locate an 85-year-old man who was missing near the post’s boundaries.

Brittany Harris, more than 7,000 miles away, wanted the soldiers to learn what she already knew: It's a girl. So she sent them the pink-colored confetti to let them share her joy.

The superintendent of West Point said he is taking allegations of reduced standards at the academy “very seriously,” as controversy rages about West Point graduate and Fort Drum officer 2nd Lt. Spenser Rapone.

An Army accident investigation team from Fort Rucker in Alabama has arrived to lead the crash investigation, which could take six months to a year to complete and release.

The Army is buying hundreds of ground robots that could bolster the way soldiers respond to nuclear, biological and chemical threats.

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will appear in court next week to enter an expected guilty plea to charges that he endangered comrades by walking off his remote post in Afghanistan in 2009.

U.S. Forces Korea will hold semiannual evacuation drills for families of military forces and other noncombatants later this month against the backdrop of rising tensions with North Korea.

Two young noncommissioned officers from Fort Bliss will get a chance to show off their medic skills and compete against the best from across the Army later this month.

Jonathan B. Richard, 22, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for his role in a fatal drag race on Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story.

The devastation in Puerto Rico and lack of information from family has proved stressful and distracting to members of the Puerto Rico National Guard posted to Fort Greely.

Faced with increasing demand for new soldiers, the Army has reached deeper into the pool of marginally qualified recruits, offered hundreds of millions in bonuses and relaxed the process for granting waivers for marijuana use.

The Army will expand the number of installations where it assigns female soldiers serving in previously all-male, front-line combat jobs as more women enter the infantry and armor fields, a top general said Wednesday.

Mosul was more than just a city to ISIS, Col. J. Patrick Work said. It was a lynchpin of the group’s claim to be its own nation, torn from parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014. He said there are clear signs that ISIS’s days are numbered.

Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright was killed on Wednesday, Oct. 4, alongside three of his fellow 3rd Group soldiers who were deployed to West Africa. Wright's remains arrived at Dover last week.

The California National Guard has been tasked with bringing fuel to first responders battling the flames in Northern California because so many gas stations are without power.

Four months before his involvement last year in a fatal drag race on Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story, a 22-year-old soldier was cited for reckless driving in Virginia Beach.

Soldiers from Fort Carson's 3rd Brigade Combat Team are streaming home after nine months in Europe. For some families, the wait has seemed much longer.

U.S. soldiers and their allies jumped out of airplanes and captured an enemy airfield Monday during the first major event of an 18-day multinational war game.

Looking to answer an urgent call for new mobile air defense systems, Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems has successfully tested a version of its long-lived Stinger surface-to-air missile mounted on a Stryker armored vehicle.

When U.S. soldiers are firing rifles and calibrating artillery at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, they often notice dozens of bunkers in various states of decay, partly hidden in the thick forests. Tangled hunks of concrete and iron can be found all over the American base.

The Army has reshaped its primary operating concept to focus on large-scale combat against enemies with technology and capabilities similar to American forces after 16 years of fighting insurgent groups in the Middle East and southwest Asia.

A Fort Stewart soldier was struck and killed by a vehicle Monday morning as he rode his bicycle along a Georgia highway.

Two soldiers have been released from the hospital but two remain in critical or fair condition in Palmetto Health Richland hospital after what the Army termed a “tragic accident” Friday at Fort Jackson.

The U.S. Army intends to grow for a second consecutive year as it anticipates increasing need for soldiers to train and assist indigenous forces to fight global terrorism, the top general said Monday.

After training for more than two years while living with their “puppy parents,” the dogs are now with the veterans they were trained to specifically help.

The Iraqis are making tremendous progress in their fight against the Islamic State, and soldiers from Fort Bliss’ 1st Armored Division have been playing an important command and support role since arriving in the country this summer, a British general said.

The government is going to recommend former U.S. Army reservist James Morales serve 14 years in prison on charges he stole 16 weapons from the U.S. Army Reserve armory in Worcester.

Army officials on Saturday identified the soldiers who were involved in Friday’s deadly incident at Fort Jackson in Columbia involving a military vehicle and a troop formation that killed two soldiers and injured six others.

A fourth American soldier killed in an enemy ambush of a joint patrol of U.S.-Niger forces in the West African nation was identified Saturday.

An accident involving a military vehicle and a troop formation at Fort Jackson on Friday afternoon, resulted in the deaths of two soldiers and injured six others.

In documents obtained by the Daily Caller, Lt. Col. Robert M. Heffington, a professor at West Point raised concerns about the behavior of Spenser Rapone in 2015.

The body of a fourth American soldier killed in an enemy ambush of a joint patrol of U.S.-Niger forces in the West African nation was recovered Friday as the Pentagon identified three soldiers killed in the same attack.

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban for half a decade after abandoning his Afghanistan post, is expected to plead guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, two individuals with knowledge of the case said.

Five years ago, Benjamin Patton began the Patton Veterans Project, a nonprofit organization that teaches combat veterans how to make films that express their experiences and help them return to a productive civilian life.

A look at key events of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's experience after he left his post in Afghanistan, from his capture until now.

About 120 Kentucky Army National Guard soldiers have been deployed to the U.S. Virgin Islands to assist with hurricane-relief operations.

While thousands scrambled from the parking lot as bullets rained down from overhead, Aaron Stalker ran straight into the crowd. He searched frantically for his girlfriend and her mother. Unable to find them in the chaos, "I just started helping anyone and everyone I could."

Officials at Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista say the Army Military Intelligence Corps Band also designated the 62nd Army Band will inactivate by Oct. 15, 2018 due to changes the service is making in its overall music support structure.

Federal transportation officials are investigating a crash last month between a civilian-operated drone and an Army helicopter that was in New York to provide security for the United Nations General Assembly.

Three Green Berets were killed in an ambush Wednesday in Niger, and two injured servicemembers were transported to a military hospital in Germany for treatment, U.S. Africa Command said Thursday.

An Army officer stationed at Fort Gordon was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court to 97 months in prison.

First Lt. Wilmarie Flores has been desperate for news of her family in Juana Diaz after Hurricane Maria. At the same time, Flores’s parents were just as concerned for their daughter who is serving in Afghanistan.

“He was the kind of soldier you wanted to deploy with,” added Sgt. 1st Class Pak Castillo, a Nevada National Guard personnel sergeant. “He was the type of soldier you wanted to work with, but would also like to hang out with outside of work. He was a great man.”

Peter and Susan Tancredi, both retired Army officers, are volunteers at the San Diego Central Library veterans resource center. Nearly all the vets who seek help at the Central Library are from the streets.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is calling for an apparent pro-communist U.S. soldier to lose his commission as an officer.

The U.S. soldier killed in a roadside bomb blast Sunday in Iraq was a 20-year-old transport driver less than a month into his first overseas deployment, according to the Pentagon.

Army postal workers near the Korean Demilitarized Zone are celebrating the 2nd Infantry Division’s 100th birthday by stamping the unit’s distinctive Indianhead logo on incoming mail.

Brig. Gen. Laura Yeager grew up in a military family, but no one really expected her to become a soldier too. But, on Friday, she took over as the new commander of Joint Task Force North at Fort Bliss. For Yeager and the organization, it was a history-making moment.

Soldiers from a South Dakota Army National Guard unit are home after serving 10 months in the Middle East.

The wear-out date for the gray physical fitness training uniform occurs Sunday. Soldiers participating in organized physical fitness training must wear the newer black Army PT uniform, which was released in 2014.