The United States Military Academy at West Point this week welcomes the class of 2024 in a fashion similar to the way it bid farewell to the class of 2020 a few weeks ago, with caution and many concessions to the coronavirus outbreak.
The service greens offer a more casual alternative to the Army Service Uniform and are considered a better option for an office setting, the Army said.
Pvt. Demetrius Moton Jr. and Hassan Smith robbed a currency exchange near the Camp Foster front gate at knifepoint and made off with $64,700 in Japanese and U.S. currency.
Dozens of U.S. Army helicopters began flights Monday from La Rochelle, a port in western France used during the Cold War that is now playing a key role in deploying soldiers to NATO’s eastern flank.
Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson plans to travel this week to Venezuela to urge President Nicolás Maduro to free several jailed Americans as a goodwill gesture aimed at easing tensions with the U.S.
Previously classified military documents about how the Army sought relevance during the atomic age will be part of a Twitter series novel released daily this week.
Between espressos and craft honey, Saturday morning at the Santa Fe Farmers Market was, if just for a few minutes, interrupted by cries for justice for Pfc. Vanessa Guillén, whose remains were found in late June more than two months after she went missing from Fort Hood, Texas.
Col. Todd J. Allison took command of the U.S. Army Garrison Rock Island Arsenal from Col. Stephen Marr during a change of command ceremony held Wednesday.
The government alleges that Thomas Bouchard created a “no-show” job for his girlfriend and that together the two stole thousands of dollars from taxpayers to fuel their Florida getaways.
The Army had previously maintained it had no credible information to Spc. Vanessa Guillen family’s allegations of sexual harassment — but speaking to reporters Friday, investigators now believe Guillen could have faced some form of harassment before she was killed.
A Texas-based unit will deploy on short notice for drills in Germany and Poland, marking the final phase of the Army’s Defender-Europe 20 exercises, the service said Friday.
“The deaths of these two women cannot go unnoticed and they cannot go without necessary reform within the military system,” said Arizona state Rep. César Chávez, a Democrat from Phoenix.
The police killing of George Floyd has triggered a wave of reckoning over racism and identity coast to coast, including at the United States Military Academy, among the most isolated and traditions-bound institutions in the country.
Summer is peak travel time for the military as troops and DOD civilians move to new assignments, and arrivals from the U.S. have accounted for some coronavirus cases on overseas bases.
According to a court report, police were justified in shooting Staff Sgt. Virgill Thorpe because they “held a reasonable belief” that Thorpe put the officers and his family members in imminent danger.
Next week, as the Military Matters podcast returns with season two, we will focus on the case of Spc. Vanessa Guillén, whose disappearance from Fort Hood, Texas, garnered the attention of officials and celebrities, and whose family was left devastated after remains discovered in nearby woods were determined to be hers.
Following strong complaints from U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, the U.S. Army said it will investigate how possible racist material was included in a handout for an Army initiative on equality.
No justice, no enlistment. That’s the call from a group of female veterans in the wake of the slaying of Fort Hood soldier Spc. Vanessa Guillen, whose remains were found mutilated and buried at the hands of another soldier miles from the central Texas base where she served.
"The 12 distinguished paratroopers in the All American Hall of Fame Class of 2020 embody the honor, valor and courage that defines service in America's Guard of Honor," said Lt. Col. Michael Burns, a spokesman for the division.
Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the former Ukraine expert for the National Security Council who testified in President Donald Trump’s impeachment case, will retire from the military, his lawyer announced Wednesday in a statement that charged Trump with bullying.
The U.S. Army says it will pick up most of the tab for a noise reduction project in the Stuttgart area aimed at quelling local anger over gunfire at ranges used by special operations units.
“By failing in these areas, West Point ultimately fails to produce leaders of character equipped to lead diverse organizations,” according to a letter penned by alumni. “In other words, West Point is failing to accomplish its mission.”
Ethan Melzer faces charges including onspiracy to kill U.S. nationals and conspiring and attempting to murder U.S. service members, which each carry a maximum sentence of life in prison.
The Lightning Forge training will focus on the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, with support personnel drawn from across the division. About 150 infantry soldiers from the Royal Thai Army’s 3rd Infantry Division will join the exercise.
A Nebraska National Guard helicopter crew has received the 2019 DUSTOFF Rescue of the Year award for their recovery of seven firefighters from the floodwaters of the Elkhorn River last year.
Army investigators have positively identified the remains of Spc. Vanessa Guillen, her family told The Washington Post on Sunday, more than two months after she vanished from Fort Hood, Texas.
As the Department of Defense has evaluated lifting travel restrictions for service members, restrictions on personal travel for Fort Bragg soldiers remained in effect as of July 1.
Army Col. Rosendo "Ross" Guieb, who has been a senior staff member at the Army Futures Command center in Austin, will be the first executive director for the George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex, which is on Texas A&M's RELLIS campus in Bryan.
Army investigators believe a Fort Hood soldier missing since April was killed by another soldier on the central Texas base where they served, the attorney for the missing soldier's family said Thursday.
He was shot in the back as he ran for cover, but Command Sgt. Maj. Timothy Bolyard managed to draw his pistol and spin around before falling to the ground.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., is blocking promotions for 1,123 senior members of the military until she gets assurances from Defense Secretary Mark Esper that he will not retaliate against an Army officer for his role in the past year’s impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
The wife of an American soldier was sentenced to nine years in prison Thursday by a German court for killing her 4-year-old stepson last year at the family home in Eschenbach, German media reports said.
Only a few hours had passed since President Donald Trump pardoned 1st Lt. Clint Lorance and the men of 1st Platoon were still trying to make sense of how it was even possible.
Questions have been raised about the Fort Hood Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention Program following the disappearance of 20-year-old Spc. Vanessa Guillen from Fort Hood’s 3rd Cavalry Regiment on April 22. She had previously reported sexual harassment to her superiors.
A German firefighter was seriously injured in an operation to rescue six American paratroopers who landed in trees during a parachute training exercise, officials said Thursday.
Fort Bragg's annual Independence Day fireworks display will still be held this year, officials announced Wednesday. The celebration will be smaller scale and only open to Department of Defense cardholders because of concerns over the coronavirus.
The Army has offered an additional $2,000 bonus on top of career incentives to recruits who joined during Army Hiring Days, a drive that relied heavily on social media.
The attorney for the family of Spc. Vanessa Guillen identified the suspect as Aaron David Robinson, the soldier Guillen told her family was sexually harassing her.
The Pentagon said Tuesday it awarded a five-year contract to SRCTec for routine repairs of the lightweight counter mortar radar and cylinders that contain the electronics for the systems.
The families of three Special Forces troops slain by a Jordanian soldier at a military base in Jordan in 2016 are calling on Congress to suspend aid to the key U.S. Mideast partner until it extradites the killer.
The reward is being offered for information that leads to the conviction of the person or persons responsible for the death of 21-year-old Spc. Enrique Roman-Martinez of Chino, Calif.
Pfc. Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old small arms repairer with the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, has been missing since April 22. She was last seen at work in the armory room of the regiment’s engineer squadron.
“This scenario tested our ability to execute real-world missions and demonstrated that we are capable of deploying anywhere in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command area at a moment’s notice,” said Col. Christopher Landers.
“As of today, we’re still set for the ACFT to replace the Army Physical Fitness Test as our organization’s test of record this fall,” Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston said in a statement.
Some child care facilities and the gym at Fort George G. Meade will be able to start reopening as the U.S. Army Military District of Washington downgrades the health protection condition.
“I enjoyed basketball, I loved playing it at the highest level,” said Lt. Marshall Plumlee.. “But there was still an itch I wanted to scratch on the Army side of things. I wanted to do it on a larger capacity."
The Army’s top leaders want to hear directly from soldiers amid a national conversation on racial issues and a renewed effort to strip military institutions of Confederate-linked names, which has pushed the military into the forefront of the debate.
The military has wrestled with the problem of white extremism in its ranks for decades, but the issue is receiving new attention amid a broader conversation about race and discrimination across the United States.
The Korean War doesn’t garner the same attention as World War II, which preceded it, or the Vietnam War, which followed. But it should be remembered as a victory, said 90-year-old Air Force veteran Paul Cunningham.
The Army is investigating the noncombat death of Spc. Nick Bravo-Regules of Largo, Fla., a 20-year-old Fort Bliss, Texas-based soldier, Tuesday in Jordan.
“This person was asymptomatic during travel and had no reason to believe he/she was infected prior to undertaking the trip to Japan,” according to a U.S. Army Japan statement.
A Stafford Springs, Conn., woolen mill, one of a few remaining in the U.S., has won a $2 million military contract to make Army dress uniforms in a Pentagon initiative to strengthen industrial supply chains damaged by the coronavirus.
Maintaining the existing battalion of U.S. peacekeepers in Kosovo would mean continuing one of the longest peacekeeping missions in the U.S. military’s history.
Pfc. Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old Houston native, went missing April 22 in the parking lot of 3rd Cavalry Regiment’s engineer squadron headquarters, where she worked in the armory room.
Housing at two Army posts in Germany and Italy is “very poor” and in need of significant improvements, the results of a survey of Army families in the U.S. and overseas show.
In the wake of protests seeking racial justice following George Floyd's death at the hands of Minneapolis police, the Military Matters podcast looks into major Army posts that are named for Confederate generals and why the U.S. Army continues to honor men who fought against it.
Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper thanked soldiers at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., on Thursday for being a part of the "elite" group of Americans who serve on "the greatest team history has known," the United States military.
Sgt. Maj. Eric M. Schmitz was the top enlisted soldier for the Army’s Intelligence and Security Command, known as INSCOM, a position he had held since 2017.
The sister of Spc. Kamisha Block said she’s never found the Army to be honest about the circumstances preceding her sister's murder, nor is the military willing to hold leadership accountable,
A Fort Bliss soldier allegedly opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle through a door when El Paso police rang his home's doorbell, according to court documents.
Some Army personnel in Germany can once again travel internationally after a general order issued Friday by the 21st Theater Sustainment Command lifted more coronavirus restrictions.
Gen. Gustave Perna, nominated to be the chief operating officer for Operation Warp Speed, told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee that he thinks it is possible that the government will be able to produce 300 million doses of a vaccine by Jan. 1.
Three weeks after about 70 Army basic training trainees tested positive for COVID-19 at Fort Leonard Wood, Army officials refused to say whether the virus had spread to other areas of the south-central Missouri post.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced Thursday that he would create two new groups charged with studying racial diversity challenges in the military in an effort to make the Pentagon a leader in a national conversation on systemic racism.
Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman's promotion to colonel is in jeopardy over what some officials fear could be White House retaliation for his role in last year's impeachment inquiry.
The Army, faced with a shortage of recruits amid the coronavirus pandemic, will launch an unprecedented effort later in the month to sign up 10,000 potential soldiers in three days, service officials announced Wednesday.
It took six German police officers to haul off a cowboy boot-wearing American soldier who called them Nazis, kicked them and later bit one of them in the leg, police said.
The Fort Hood lawsuit joins at least six other suits filed across the country in the wake of media reports that began nearly two years ago on the poor conditions of military housing.
Pfc. Vanessa Guillen, 20, disappeared during the workday at Fort Hood on April 22. She was last seen in the parking lot of 3rd Cavalry Regiment’s engineer squadron headquarters, where she worked in the armory room.
The Army initially planned for the test to be fully implemented by Oct. 1, but with soldiers locked down due to coronavirus, the service paused physical evaluation requirements in March.
Film star Salma Hayek shared an Instagram post to increase awareness about the disappearance of Vanessa Guillen, who was last seen April 22 at the Army’s Fort Hood military post in Killeen, Texas.
Pfc. Vanessa Guillen, 20, was last seen in the middle of a work day on April 22 in the parking lot of the Regimental Engineer Squadron Headquarters at Fort Hood. The soldier's identification card, wallet and the keys to her car and base apartment were later found in the armory room where she had been earlier in the day.
Army scientists have a vaccine candidate that they believe has the potential to fight COVID-19 – and that may be able to protect individuals from future coronaviruses, "from season to season, for decades to come."
The Black Daggers, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command's parachute demonstration team, jumped onto Cape Fear Valley Medical Center's front lawn as a salute to medical professionals.
Chandra Mundra had planned to spend an entire week in West Point, N.Y., for his son’s graduation from the U.S. Military Academy. Then the coronavirus pandemic swept the nation.
A proposal to replace Hood's name with that of Army Master Sgt. Roy P. Benavidez, a Latino Medal of Honor recipient who was also a Texas native, has been in the works already.
The Texas Supreme Court has declined to hear the case of retired Army Capt. Le Roy Torres, who sued the state of Texas because he said he was forced out of his job with the state highway patrol after returning from a deployment to Iraq with injuries caused by burn pit exposure.
