Two U.S. servicemembers were injured Tuesday when their military truck spun out of control while traveling on a highway in southern Germany, local law enforcement officials said.

Two 911 calls about a weapon and gunshots Tuesday morning led to a two-hour lockdown and closing of gates at Redstone Arsenal, but authorities said there was no evidence shots were fired.

The soldiers are part of a larger group of 1,500 deploying paratroopers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.

Officials at the Army’s Redstone Arsenal received two emergency phone calls of an active shooter on post Tuesday morning, but an investigation determined the reports of the incident that locked down the north Alabama installation for several hours were unfounded.

A Massachusetts National Guard soldier is facing a charge he improperly touched a female subordinate while they were in formation at the Ethan Allen Firing Range in Jericho, Vermont.

While his decision may seem curious to some, Andrew Grady said a demotion — and a switch in his branch of service – was the best way to keep his family together.

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Army tankers with the 1st Battalion, 68th Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, let loose a hailstorm of 120 mm armor-piercing and multipurpose rounds from their M1A2 Abrams tanks during live-fire training on Tuesday.

An El Paso County jury on Monday acquitted a Green Beret of negligent homicide for fatally shooting an intruder in his garage.

Following the Russian intervention in Ukraine in 2014 the United States has tried to make its allies, especially those in neighboring Russia in eastern Europe, feel less threatened through a program dubbed the European Reassurance Initiative.

Soldiers from the 1st Armored Division headquarters are ready and raring to go on their mission to Iraq, the division command team said.

Clark State Community College will extend its 50 percent military tuition discount next year to members of the National Guard and U.S. Reserves, along with a smaller discount for military spouses.

As a young Marine, Gilmon D. Brooks witnessed history when the American flag was raised on Feb. 23, 1945, on Iwo Jima during one of the bloodiest battles of World War II.

In the 180 days deployed, the soldiers have put in 153 days of training with allies and community engagements across a swath of the continent from the Baltic to the Black Sea. To supply the brigade's more than 4,000 troops, the unit's truckers have logged more than 100,000 highway miles.

Fort Carson's 10th Combat Support Hospital made history this month, becoming the first unit in the Army to convert to a new field hospital design.

This week’s All American Legacy Podcast will delve into one of the most visible symbols of the modern paratrooper: the maroon beret.

The U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command bid farewell to its leader on Saturday during a ceremony at Fort Bragg’s Main Post Parade Field.

The two-week trial of a Colorado Springs Green Beret accused of fatally shooting an intruder in the back came to a close Friday with one juror apparently wearing her sympathies on a T-shirt. Emblazoned on the shirt was the word ARMY.

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Soldiers from across Europe ran for the chance to compete in the prestigious Army 10-Miler at the qualification run in Grafenweohr, Germany, on Saturday.

On the battlefield, the cavalry scout is considered the commander’s eyes and ears. Scouts are called on when information about the enemy is needed. They are also responsible for reconnaissance and are proficient with various weapons, including explosives and mines.

The dismissal earlier this month of a bid protest by firearms maker Glock Inc., over a $480 million handgun contract clears the way for the Army to begin using its newest version of a sidearm in more than 20 years.

Standing outside the headquarters of the 3rd Special Forces Group, students from Victory Christian Center School in Charlotte were in for a rare experience.

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The brigade tasked with keeping the 82nd Airborne Division sustained and in the fight welcomed a new leader during a Fort Bragg ceremony Thursday.

Brigadier Gen. Steve Gilland will take the position Friday during a ceremony at West Point. The commandant of cadets oversees discipline and training for the academy's roughly 4,200 cadets. It's one of West Point's top positions.

Wayne Grigsby Jr., who also served as the commander of Fort Riley, Kansas, was reprimanded after investigators found that he had called and texted a female captain more than 850 times over 10 months and was spending time at her home.

Attorneys for accused Army deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl can ask prospective jurors in the soldier’s court-martial about their impressions of President Donald Trump but not if they voted for him, the judge overseeing the case said Thursday.

Nearly $3 million in cash and in-kind contributions have gone into the lakeside camp created by a foundation established by former staff Sgt. Travis Mills.

The U.S. accepted the remains of the 1st Cavalry Division soldier Thursday during a repatriation ceremony hosted by the South Korean military and United Nations Command at Yongsan Garrison.

Gov. Roy Cooper has ordered that all U.S. flags at state facilities be lowered to half-staff in remembrance of a North Carolina soldier killed in Afghanistan.

Army Spc. Brian Arsenault, dreamed of swimming with sharks when he finished serving his country. Thought the 28-year-old never got that chance, the soldier's memory continues to live on through a shark named in his honor.

James Moriarty, a trial lawyer in Houston, had initially been critical of Jordanian authorities. Now he says he has more faith in the kingdom's legal system after attending court this week.

In a pair of events on Wednesday, the soon-to-deactivate 5th Signal Command paid a final tribute to its home of more than two decades — the city of Worms in Germany.

Lawyers for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl said Wednesday they want to ask prospective jurors in the soldier’s court-martial about their opinions on President Donald Trump to ensure their client receives a fair trial.

Col. Kirk R. Slaughter, 49, of Lyons, Neb., was remembered as a positive influence who loved his wife and four kids, was big into sports, and had a “thousand-watt smile” and infectious laugh.

The Army will deploy hundreds of paratroopers to the Baltics this fall to allay concerns among some allies that a large-scale Russian war game scheduled to commence in September could serve as a pretext for aggression in the region.

For most of the next nine months, about 250 soldiers with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division will serve as part of the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, a small, landlocked country on the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe.

While serving as an Army infantryman in Iraq, Richard Martinez III’s fellow soldiers laughed when he said he planned to go to Harvard University one day. They couldn’t imagine a soldier also being a scholar. Martinez never doubted that he could be both.

U.S. soldiers are getting ready for a historic move from the front lines to new quarters south of Seoul, South Korea, as part of a relocation plan that has been in the works for more than a decade.

The Pfc. Alan Newton U.S. Army Reserve Center is the future home of U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command. Newton was killed in Afghanistan in Oct. 2009.

A crime scene investigator told a military court Tuesday that three U.S. military trainers killed at the gate of a Jordanian air base had come under heavy fire, including from inside a nearby guard house.

Prosecutors want to present evidence that a soldier and a Navy SEAL suffered grievous injuries on separate missions to find Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl if the accused deserter is convicted later this year, recent court documents show.

Mary Matiella, a native of Southern Arizona, made her announcement during the weekly Democrats of Greater Tucson meeting, telling the audience she was the best candidate to face McSally next year in the November general election.

A 26-year-old man has been charged for allegedly sexually assaulting a 24-year-old woman at Schofield Barracks.

Lt. Gen. James Dickinson, who heads Army Space and Missile Defense Command, said the soldiers from the 100th Missile Defense Brigade in Colorado Springs exemplify his push to put the Army's missile defenses on a wartime footing.

The commander of the Vermont National Guard says the state's Army guard members will be ready, if asked, for a major operation in late 2019.

Since the three-week exercise started June 3 at Fort McCoy, a military training center in west-central Wisconsin, the 3,000 Illinois Guard members have had to overcome a lot of obstacles. Some of the challenges, like the IED, were part of the exercise, but the soldiers have also endured hot, muggy weather and thunderstorms.

An Army officer was ordered held on $150,000 bail for shooting and wounding a motorcyclist following a minor fender bender in the Grand Crossing neighborhood last month.

Terry Jung stood under a tent and faced a group that included community leaders, judges, politicians, businessmen and more hailing from Fayetteville, Fort Bragg and the surrounding communities. Jung, visiting from Texas, was making a pitch.

For Capt. Stoney Grimes, being a paratrooper is a family business. His grandfather spent 25 years in the Army, including several in the 82nd Airborne Division. His father, also named Stoney Grimes, served with the All Americans for five years.

In the coming weeks, 1,600 paratroopers are expected to leave Fort Bragg, destined for missions in Kosovo and Afghanistan. The soldiers belong to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. And they’ve been preparing to serve in those countries for much of the year.

Two Fort Carson soldiers were held in the Douglas County jail Friday afternoon, a day after a shooting on the post left one soldier injured and led to heightened security.

Last month John Tripp did what he's done every year but once since 1957 — honoring his fallen comrades in the 10th Mountain Division at the top of Tennessee Pass.

As military women are vying for newly open combat jobs, the Army has found that a quarter of female recruits have a chronic iron deficiency. The Army has been giving iron-rich multivitamins to female soldiers for more than a year.

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On Thursday Col. Brett T. Funck relinquished command of the Fort Bragg garrison to Col. Kyle A. Reed.

The Army on Friday identified Col. Kirk R. Slaughter, 49, as the soldier who died in a fishing boat accident in Hawaii on Thursday.

The post will see the return of an aviation training brigade — and about 137 soldiers — to its 1st Army Division West, which trains and mobilizes Army Reserve and National Guard units at Fort Hood.

The shooting occurred Thursday but few details were immediately available. According to the Army installation's Facebook page, a suspect was arrested and taken into custody.

Soldiers in the 10th Mountain Division will be among the first to utilize a new tactical vehicle designed to replace the Humvee.

A former Army Green Beret crossed the line into vigilantism when he shot an intruder three times in the back in his detached garage, prosecutors charged Wednesday at a trial expected to test the limits of Colorado's "make my day" law.

Dressed in lab coats with tree trimmers and a fake butcher knife in hand next to a bloody stuffed goat, animal rights activists protested Thursday outside Fort Carson's main gate.

Energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness became a focus of the Corpus Christi Army Depot in the months and years following the slowdown of troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, an official said.

The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources says the soldier was on a surfboard just outside Waianae Boat Harbor Thursday morning when a 21-foot recreational powerboat leaving the harbor ran over him.

Arlington County and the Army had been negotiating land exchanges for the better part of a decade. The land cited for expansion is on the cemetery's southern border, in and around the Air Force Memorial.

A Fort Hood soldier who disappeared after flash flooding hit the area in April has been determined to be dead, the U.S. Army confirmed on Thursday.

When driving cars, motorists can be sure they do not run out of gas by watching a gauge. But, figuring out when soldiers in the field will tire out is a different matter, Brig. Gen. Anthony Potts told Natick officials on Wednesday.

The two bills Governor Eric Greitens signed are designed to help veterans employment and protect it when they've been deployed as National Guard or Reserve soldiers.

The lawmakers expressed concern about the affordability of a Zika vaccine once one becomes available because the pharmaceutical manufacturer, Sanofi Pasteur, rejected a request from the U.S. Army to set an affordable price for the drug.

Using a whiskey bottle, a business card and some rudimentary carpentry, Lt. Col. Eugene J. McNamara found a way to be remembered.

Wednesday marked 242 years since the Continental Army was formed to fight for American independence. Camp Zama has been hosting a range of activities this week to mark the milestone.

The U.S. military's first openly gay general says advances in granting rights to the military’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community have increased the ability “to fight tonight” in South Korea.

The soldiers of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division gathered together early Wednesday for the last time before roughly 1,600 troops deploy later this month.

Steve Maranian was promoted to brigadier general in a ceremony last month in Oklahoma.

The Army wants to retain a strategic base in Mannheim that was slated for closure, in order to support a growing mission in Europe, where the service also is investigating potential new operational sites should the Pentagon decide to deploy more soldiers overseas in the future.

Spc. Xavier Joseph Harden, 23, was visiting a lake with his wife and 3-year-old child when he drowned after entering the water to pull a raft to shore. Harden could not swim.

Top Fort Carson bomb technicians competed against teams from bases around the region in a bomb-disposal event that will eventually lead to a final round in Virginia.

A former U.S. Army officer has been chosen as the 2018 Georgia Teacher of the Year.

The bodies of Sgt. Eric M. Houck, Sgt. William M. Bays and Cpl. Dillon C. Baldridge were returned to the United States on June 12 after an Afghan soldier turned his gun on them in an apparent insider attack Saturday in eastern Afghanistan’s restive Nangarhar province, where they were assisting in the battle against Islamic State terrorists.

Tina Demers says she received no prior warning. So when her West End house began shuddering late Friday night and her neighbor's plastic lawn furniture flew about the yard and the thunderous dark aircraft crept over the treetops, there was a moment of terror.

The fights of the future will not look like the ones of today, Fort Drum’s commander said, and soldiers of today will have to train differently to prepare for them.

Attorneys who sued the federal government over a broken Fort Jackson dam are withdrawing from the case after telling clients they can’t prove the structure’s failure led to flooding in people’s homes during a massive storm two years ago, according to documents obtained by The State.

Cpl. Dillon C. Baldridge, 22, was one of three soldiers killed June 10 in Afghanistan. “My brother did what he loved and did it with the best of his ability,” his brother Zach Palmer said.

Sgt. Eric M. Houck, who a neighbor said "had a calling to join the Army," was among three killed Saturday in Afghanistan, the Army announced Monday.

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The U.S. Army had its night in the spotlight Monday as the Washington Nationals honored the service in the second of its 2017 Military Branch Days at Nationals Park.

Samuel V. Wilson, a retired Army lieutenant general who led the Defense Intelligence Agency in the mid-1970s, encouraging intelligence officers to be more "Sherlock Holmes" than "James Bond," died June 10 at his home in Rice, Va. He was 93.

The three American soldiers killed by an Afghan soldier in an apparent insider attack Saturday in eastern Afghanistan belonged to the Fort Campbell, Kentucky-based 101st Airborne Division, the Pentagon announced Monday.

Retired Lt. Gen. Samuel Wilson, who had a long military and intelligence career and was president of Hampden-Sydney College from 1992 to 2000, has died, the college has confirmed. He was 93.

A Jordanian military court says it will appoint a lawyer for a Jordanian soldier charged with murder in the shooting deaths of three U.S. military trainers.

Husband and wife, both soldiers in the Louisiana Army National Guard, left central Louisiana recently for deployment to Kuwait. Over the next year, more than 160 soldiers in the unit will conduct missions in support of Operation Spartan Shield.

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Germany celebrated the Day of the German Army near the American Grafenwoehr Training Area on Saturday.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed the appointment of Maj. Gen. Laura J. Richardson to be the next deputy commanding general of U.S. Army Forces Command.

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A Fort Drum soldier will be on a military team competing on the new season of NBC’s “Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge” for the chance to win $250,000.

U.S. Army leaders with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment and the 7th Army Training Command, along with allied and partner nations, joined forces here Friday to strategize a large-scale exercise in the Black Sea region this summer.

The new Information Systems Facility is needed to replace the existing communications center, which was built in 1962 and caught fire two years ago.

According to copies of the Army’s investigatory report on the June 2, 2016, accident, investigators pinned blame on Staff Sgt. Miguel Colon Vasquez and a series of his decisions, including his seemingly inexplicable choice to try to cross the creek in apparent defiance of his platoon leader’s order.

Lt. Col. Megan A. Brogden, who assumed command of the Group Support Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, is the first woman to assume command of a battalion within any of the Army’s seven Special Forces groups.

Col. Joseph D. Roller assumed command of the 18th Field Artillery Brigade at Fort Bragg on Thursday, replacing Col. John L. Rafferty.