The deployment of 3,500 82nd Airborne Division soldiers in less than 96 hours this month demonstrated Fort Bragg's significance to the military, Gen. Michael X. Garrett said.

Army Spc. Miguel Villalon spent his teenage years in the town of Aurora, Ill. after moving to the state from Texas. A memorial will be held next week at the local high school, which Villalon attended.

The town hall is part of ongoing discussions of mold issues on the military base. Residents have found mold throughout their homes — over kitchen appliances, under floorboards and behind wall paneling and in ventilation systems.

The military campus is starting to create an environmental assessment, a document that will determine if a federal action could potentially cause environmental effects. The options will be considered in the environmental assessment.

The recent death of U.S. Army Spc. Bradley Walsh, a Kalamazoo native, prompted Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to order U.S. and Michigan flags be lowered to half-staff Thursday in honor of Walsh’s service.

More than 18 years into the longest war in United States history, deployment ceremonies such as these are part of the norm — yet still a wake-up call for those who are going. They and their families have been on notice for months.

A leader of the U.S. effort to deliver faster-than-sound missiles to American troops said in Alabama that a long-range hypersonic weapon will be fielded “in the near future.”

About 20,000 pieces of military equipment must be deployed from the U.S. for Defender-Europe 20.

As of Jan. 10, more than 15 tons of chemical agents from Blue Grass Army Depot have been destroyed, officials said.

“I already had five suicide attempts," Iraq War veteran Jonathan Lubecky said. "I put a gun to my head twice and pulled the trigger. I figured I was going to die anyway, that I might as well try ecstasy. And then it worked.”

The 21-year-old former Army mechanic found dead last week in a wooded area at Fort Stewart, Ga., had only left the service in August, according to Army records.

At least two accusers were told the Wisconsin Department of Justice would review some cases, according to an email from the National Guard Bureau.

The 82nd Airborne Division and U.S. Army support forces will be training in Colombia through January 29th.

U.S. Army Europe investigators found no “imminent threat” to personnel after an intelligence report of a potential terror attack led to heightened security at U.S. bases in Germany during the weekend.

After Staff Sgt. Ian McLaughlin's widow was given a moment to say goodbye, hundreds of other paratroopers lined the roadway to salute as the hearse was escorted away.

Staff Sgt. Ian Paul McLaughlin of Newport News, Va., and Pfc. Miguel Angel Villalon of Joliet, Ill., were killed Jan. 11 by an improvised explosive device.

The M2 Bradley, which has been in service since 1981, transports infantry on the battlefield, provides fire support to dismounted troops and combats enemy vehicles.

Maj. Gen. Brian Mennes, the division’s commander, will lead the deployment. In a statement, Mennes called the 10th Mountain the “most deployed in the Army.”

Army Maj. Gen. Sean Gainey will lead a new 60-person team for the Defense Department to develop new methods to counter drone strikes, which are increasing on the battlefields of the Middle East and Afghanistan, Pentagon officials announced earlier this week.

The Army paid hackers more than $275,000 for detecting vulnerabilities in popular military websites, which defense officials say is a step toward creating a more secure cyberspace.

Gov. Larry Hogan and Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford welcomed 150 soldiers from the Army National Guard’s 244th vertical construction company Wednesday after being deployed for almost one year to the Middle East in support of Operation Spartan Shield.

The unidentified cadet wrote on his GoFundMe page titled “Help Me Bring Diamond Foxxx To YWW” that he had no money and asked: “Please help a young boy’s dream come true.“

Fort Bragg officials said Staff Sgt. Shaun Pinheiro-Pires was detained at one of the base gates and turned over to the Sheriff's Office after his warrant appeared on the security check system.

U.S. Army Cyber Command will complete a move of its headquarters into a gleaming and well-equipped building later this year but its biggest need will be filling it with the right personnel, Lt. Gen, Stephen Fogarty said.

The remains of fallen Army Spc. Henry “Mitch” Mayfield Jr. came back to his hometown of Hazel Crest, Illinois, on Wednesday in a procession that also went by the high school he attended.

Looking back at the inaugural episode of the Military Matters podcast, hosts Desmon Farris and Rod Rodriguez discuss ongoing research into cannabis, misconceptions that persist about the controversial plant, and the its potential medical and addiction complications.

Two Democratic senators demanded Wednesday that Army officials open an investigation into allegations that commanders of an Illinois-based reserve unit mishandled sexual assault complaints and protocols.

The bulk of the brigade, which is made up of nearly 4,000 paratroopers, is expected to remain in Kuwait, at least for the time being, defense officials said. The brigade, which is specially trained to deploy on short notice, was rushed into the Middle East during the first week of 2020 as tensions increased with Iran.

As third-grader Zacariah Yarbrough sat in the Bon Air Technology Academy gym on Tuesday, he listened to the middle school band practice for an upcoming performance — the supposed purpose of that day’s sudden convocation. Little did he know that on the other side of the gym doors, his mother was waiting, returning home from Kuwait.

Army Green Beret Master Sgt. Nathan Goodman died Tuesday during military freefall training in Arizona, officials said. The incident occurred during routine training near Eloy, Ariz., U.S. Army Special Operations Command spokesman Lt. Col. Loren Bymer said in a statement.

A memorial service will be held Thursday to honor Pvt. Connor J. McGurran, who died Jan. 8, Fort Jackson spokeswoman Leslie Ann Sully said in a new release. The 19-year-old Minnesota Army National Guard Soldier was found unresponsive following a training exercise.

Approximately 5,000 ribbons will cloak the trees that line Hazel Crest, Ill. to honor Army Spc. Henry “Mitch” Mayfield Jr., who was killed in a Jan. 5 attack at an airfield in Kenya.

According to base officials, it does not appear the deceased was affiliated with Fort Stewart and there is no threat to the community.

Puerto Rico has activated more than 650 of its National Guard members with 115 more preparing to travel from New York to help construct and support tent shelters across the southern region of the island where thousands of residents continue to sleep outdoors for fear of another major earthquake.

A soldier convicted of a sex crime is arguing that testimony explaining the military’s sexual assault prevention training “unfairly prejudiced” a jury, documents filed to the nation’s highest military court say.

Staff Sgt. Ian Paul McLaughlin, 29, of Newport News, Va., and Pfc. Miguel Angel Villalon, 21, of Joliet, Ill., died after an improvised explosive device struck their vehicle, said a news release from the 82nd Airborne Division.

U.S. officials had been discussing pulling out of some Iraqi bases to consolidate the American and allied troop presence in the country, but conflict with Iran and calls from Baghdad for foreign troops to withdraw have left those plans in limbo.

Alex knows his father is an “Army man.” He sees him in uniform. And he’s picked up on his mom’s swirling emotions. Since arriving in the Middle East, Dad usually called every morning and night, but after a few days of missed FaceTime connections, Alex’s 5-year-old brain assumed the worst.

A Fayetteville man was sentenced Friday to 11 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised probation, on carjacking and firearms charges, according to officials.

Christopher Lee Gardner was reported missing from Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington, and the Army stated he was possibly armed and dangerous.

Gilberto Chavez Jr. was sentenced to 74 years in prison for the shooting death of Capt. Daniel Chamberlain Lehman, who was killed while walking home in Sept. 2018.

Leaders of the Army Reserve's 416th Theater Engineer Command have mishandled at least two sexual assault complaints by not referring them for outside investigation, according to victims and documents.

The Army task force would help neutralize some capabilities China and Russia already possess and are intended to keep U.S. carrier groups away from the Asian mainland, according to Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy.

Pvt. Connor J. McGurran, 19, was found unresponsive Wednesday. He reported to Army basic combat training at Fort Jackson in October and was studying to maintain Bradley Fighting Vehicle systems.

In addition to the trio of Silver Stars — the military’s third-highest personal award for combat bravery — officials also presented seven Bronze Stars for valor and 17 Army Commendation medals.

Also up for consideration is whether a board will allow retired Army Maj. Mathew Golsteyn to receive a Distinguished Service Cross that had been approved before he came under investigation in the 2010 death of a suspected Taliban bomb maker in Afghanistan.

Army Sgt. Tristian Jackson was killed in a hail of gunfire Wednesday night as he arrived at an east Birmingham home to visit a relative.

The 19-year-old Army National Guard Soldier was found unresponsive at a field location, a Fort Jackson official said, adding that the soldier's unit took life saving measures while contacting emergency medical services.

Troops on a six-month rotation will be assigned to battle group Poland at the Bemowo Piskie Training Area in Orzyz, about 50 miles from the Russian military exclave of Kaliningrad.

U.S. Army Recruiting Command said it received multiple calls and emails about phony text messages directing them to report to a recruiting office.

After the death of Gregory Allen, a civilian employee at the Child Development Center on the Army’s Yongsan Garrison, his parents were locked in a web of bureaucracy.

Service members who suffered moderate to severe traumatic brain injury in combat have significantly higher incidence of mental health disorders in following years as compared to warfighters who sustained other traumatic injuries, a study found.

No excuse on missing the gym this year as a 28-year-old proved with the proper motivation you can lose 165 pounds. And what was his motivation? Christian Montijo was determined to lose the weight so he could join the U.S. Army.

Eight soldiers marched into the Fort Detrick auditorium among claps and yells of “Hooah.” The soldiers, the 6th Medical Logistics Management Center (MLMC) Team 20, would soon be deployed to Southwest Asia, where they will oversee distribution and supply of medical equipment needed to help treat members of the military.

Retired Army Lt. Col. Brian Magerkurth knew the pain from his arthritic right hip would jeopardize his quest to requalify for NBC’s American Ninja Warrior, the extreme test of strength and agility in which he competed once before, in 2015. After a hip replacement, he's ready to try it again.

For several months, about two dozen families at the Fort Belvoir military base in Virginia have been living in a hotel, forced out of their homes by a pervasive mold problem that has caused illnesses and contaminated their belongings.

The new deployment will include roughly 3,000 82nd Airborne Division soldiers who were placed on prepare-to-deploy orders earlier this week amid growing tensions in Iraq between the United States and Iran.

A few hundred members of a Niantic-based Connecticut Army National Guard battalion departed Thursday for Texas where they will spend the next several weeks training before deploying to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

A pilot program, slated to run for three years, will gauge the effectiveness of assigning Army recruits to jobs based on personality testing along with standard vocational aptitude tests.

BAE Systems will win U.S. Army approval this month for full-rate production of self-propelled howitzers and ammunition carriers based on improvements in the $10 billion program after several years of delays over welding defects.

Pfc. Patrick Giannone, 19, from Spotsylvania, Va., was an information technology specialist assigned to Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

As planning for the funeral of Sgt. 1st Class Michael Goble is under way, the Army 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Green Beret is being remembered by members of Congress, friends and a sandwich chain founder as a patriotic warrior who believed deeply in the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, where he died Dec. 23 as a result of combat action the day before.

A Kansas-based construction company has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit, accusing them of submitting false claims to the Army for work completed to a dam at Fort Sill, Okla., according to the Department of Justice.

The Army has banned the use of TikTok, a popular video app, following a similar ban by the Navy amid growing concerns from the Defense Department and congressional leaders about its potential security risks to users.

Previously, the tax center provided active-duty service members, their family members and retirees with free tax preparation, electronic filing and tax form distribution for federal and state tax returns.

Sen. Collins recently hosted the retirement ceremony for Sgt. Maj. Derek Gondek, his family and friends on Capitol Hill, where she thanked him for serving his country, and for his one-year commitment as her Army Legislative Fellow in 2017.

Army investigators started looking into Dalton Woodward and Trent East earlier this year after the activist group Atlanta Antifascists published a report linking the two men to the controversial sect of paganism identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.

Army company-level leaders are overwhelmed by their workloads in part because they’re reluctant to push back against excessive demands made on them by leadership, a new study suggests.

Mass attendees at Post Chapel also sang well-known Christmas songs like "O Come, All Ye Faithful," "Little Town of Bethlehem" and "Joy To The World" and even sang happy birthday to one parishioner.

A hero. The “definition of a patriot.” A “good dude.” Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Goble, 33, who was killed in Afghanistan days before Christmas, is remembered as being an exemplary man, soldier and father by friends, family and officials.

Donning Santa hats and riding in Chinooks instead of sleighs, a combined military mission delivered holiday cheer to U.S. troops at several austere camps on what one general called the “outside edge” of America’s military footprint in eastern Syria.

State Rep. Mandy Powers Norrell said her Dec. 14 tweet directed at cadets and the institutions they were representing was typed “in the passion of the moment and without proper reflection.”

Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Goble died as a result of injuries sustained in a roadside bombing Monday. The Taliban has since claimed responsibility for the incident.

U.S. investigators came to believe after Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega's ouster that many of his puzzling actions could be attributed to his occult rituals. But in the end, witchcraft proved no match for the 82nd Airborne and other troops that descended on Panama City in the early hours of Dec. 20, 1989.

Maryland Army National Guard Spc. David Collins died of stab wounds he received in an altercation outside a Baltimore County nightclub just after midnight Saturday, according to police and Army officials.

2nd Lt. Gibram Cruz, 30, will spend about three days at home from his post in Arizona. As an intelligence officer, the process to travel outside the U.S. for personal reasons is long and complicated, he said, which will make it difficult for him to visit his mother after her deportation.

Researchers from the University of Hawaii and the Defense Department examined records dating to 1819, the first such in-depth look at military suicide rates. The Army was chosen to review because it is the nation’s largest service branch.

The money going to Fort Detrick will fund a new building at the post, which will house U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity staff, spokeswoman Chelsea Bauckman said.

U.S. Army Africa has for years sent small groups of active duty and reserve military doctors, nurses and medics on short-term medical-readiness exercises. Now it's planning to nearly double the number of those exercises.

Staff Sgt. Deontae D. Allen, 27, of Kansas City, Mo., was found unresponsive and pronounced dead at the scene on Camp Humphreys by emergency medical personnel on Sunday, according to a press release.

Initially given a 30% chance of survival after being injured in Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Ryan Davis has battled through blood clots, infections and amputations. The theft of his family's truck and other belongings threatened to make an already bad year worse — until police recovered everything.

A Prince George’s County, Md., judge on Tuesday threw out a hate-crime charge filed against a white man on trial in the fatal stabbing of a black man at a University of Maryland bus stop.

Members of the 7th Engineer Dive Detachment donned vintage equipment to place place Lauren Bruner’s ashes in one of the deepest spots in the wreck of the USS Arizona.

Taking on a holiday theme, the Gingerbread Brawlers faced off on Saturday against the Candy Cane Crushers in a 60-minute matchup that put close friends at odds — but all in good fun.

Fort Bragg officials say a driver got into a crash, stole another vehicle from a good Samaritan who stopped to help, then crashed again into a military police car when the police tried to stop the stolen car.

Gen. Robert Abrams permanently ended the hugely unpopular 1-to-5 a.m. curfew for U.S. service members in South Korea on Tuesday after a six-month suspension proved successful.

Elderly veterans, bundled up against the wind, saluted and sang softly as a brass quartet played “The Star Spangled Banner” at the dedication of a monument in St. Vith, Belgium.

A former U.S. Army civilian once responsible for handling government contracts at Kuwait’s Camp Arifjan was arrested this week in the Philippines on bribery and other charges stemming from a scheme to steer contracts to a particular company and split profits, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

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American soldiers marched 3 miles from the drop zone at Grafenwoehr Training Area to Tower Barracks on Thursday carrying assault packs filled with toys to be delivered to local children in need.

Sgt. Marshall Edgerton died Dec. 11, 2003 while doing a force protection shift on Combat Outpost Champion Main in Ar Ramadi, Iraqi. Edgerton had volunteered to escort an incoming vehicle so that his fellow soldier could finish his meal.

The blasts of howitzers rang across the snow-covered landscape of Vilseck as soldiers from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment’s Bulldog Battery learned how to fire and move during a qualification exercise Thursday.

The United States formally returned four small military bases to South Korea and began the process Wednesday for returning Yongsan Garrison in Seoul as it faces pressure to speed a long-delayed transition plan.

As UCF research associate Shane Reynolds guides his avatar over a virtual minefield using his iPad, small beeps and whistles reveal the location of the scourge of the modern war zone: Improvised Explosive Devices, or IEDs.

The U.S. military’s top enlisted service member unveiled a new, distinctive rank insignia specifically for the senior enlisted adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, an insignia that he will wear for his last week on the job.

A Columbia, South Carolina, boy was sad because his father, a soldier in the U.S. Army, was deployed and would not be home for the holidays. But 6-year-old Ethan Scott found another way to connect with his dad, Army Spc. Jabari Scott.