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Operation Prairie Hay Drop brought food to hungry bovines on Wednesday in the eastern part of Nebraska, according to a statement from the state's National Guard.

Anthony Williams is the latest former Army officer to plead guilty to charges stemming from the bribery and bid-rigging conspiracy that took place from 2008 through 2014 at Fort Gordon.

The Army announced Major General Brian J. Mennes will serve as the next Senior Commander of Fort Drum and the 10th Mountain Division. He will replace Major General Walter E. Piatt.

Command Sgt. Maj. Todd Sims relinquished responsibility of the 101st Airborne Division in a ceremony Wednesday.

Sgt. 1st Class Ethan Carpenter was killed March 15 during the routine training exercise. He was a reconnaissance specialist assigned to the elite 75th Ranger Regiment’s special troops battalion at Fort Benning in Georgia.

Over 100 soldiers stationed at Camp Casey, near the North Korean border, participated in the annual cleanup of the Shincheon River by throwing biodegradable balls containing microorganisms aimed at preventing the growth of pathogenic bacteria in the water.

Federal toxicologists in a draft study last year cited PFAS compounds' links to cancer and other health problems. The Defense Department has identified 24 U.S. military drinking water systems around the world with PFAS levels above the current advisory level.

Kim Song-Cho, 66, a full-time employee with the Directorate of Public Works, died Wednesday while performing his job on the base. The incident is under investigation.

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Retired Sgt. Daniel Cowart’s Distinguished Service Cross is one of a dozen Silver Star medals announced recently made eligible for an upgrade by the Army through a review process of post-9/11 valor awards that began in 2016.

An affidavit of the criminal complaint filed against Nouran Ahmad Shiba Sueidan states that he attempted to gain access to Fort Bragg at 10:30 a.m. on March 12 without proper identification and repeated requests to tour “the special operations facility.”

Wounded in Afghaninstan in 2006, Army Lt. Col. Kenneth Dwyer told students at the Georgia Military College and Prep School of overcoming adversity and having the tools necessary to do so — not just as individuals, but also as leaders.

An Army combat veteran from upstate New York has been found guilty of a double homicide in which he shot and killed his wife and a state trooper.

The Army’s March 8 budget request scratches the Chinook upgrade, stops production of Bradley Fighting Vehicles, and reduces planned purchases of Joint Strike Force vehicles, .50-caliber machine guns and forklifts, among other familiar war tools.

The tank factory the president will visit in Lima, Ohio, nearly closed six years ago; Army officials told Congress that they didn’t need any more of the heavy M-1 Abrams tanks it produces because they are less geared toward modern wars against insurgents.

Contamination seeping from the Camp Grayling National Guard base is polluting local lakes and groundwater. Across Michigan, municipalities are now either budgeting for PFAS response where chemicals are found in drinking water or wastewater, or are casting a worried eye as the number of contaminated sites continues to climb.

Starting in April, 110 California National Guard troops will devote their time to fire protection, and will receive 11 days of training in using shovels, rakes and chain saws to help thin trees and brush.

Gen. Robert Brown, commander of U.S. Army Pacific, said the number of troops to be tapped annually has not yet been set and would vary depending upon circumstances and the preferences of allies and partner nations hosting the troops.

A Sanford woman faces an additional offense in a fatal wreck that killed a Fort Bragg soldier March 10, Fayetteville police said.

The sudden deployment is the latest sign of how the Pentagon’s “Dynamic Force Employment” strategy is altering how the Army operates in the U.S. European Command area.

Pfc. Prentice Letroy Lewis-Rankin, 20, of Brewton, Ala., collided with another vehicle while driving on Parks Highway between the towns of Talkeetna and Willow, which lie north of Anchorage.

Military officials at both bases said Monday that they are surveying damage as they wait for the water to recede, which isn’t expected until Thursday.

While the tank plant in Lima, Ohio, has never closed, production was drastically scaled back in the 1990s and again beginning in the mid-2000s. Those fluctuations have had a ripple effect on the community.

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan did not travel to the northern city, according to the U.S.-led NATO Resolute Support mission. An Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman said Friday that Army Gen. Scott Miller had made the trip.

The New York National Guard will partner with Brazil to conduct joint training missions and military exchanges.

Pvt. Walter Beagles arrived at Camp Jackson, South Carolina, in 1918, an African American draftee in a segregated Army that relegated black soldiers to labor battalions out of a prejudiced notion that they couldn't fight. More than 100 years later, his great-grandson now serves as the base's 51st commanding general.

The helicopter was dispatched from the Army's Yakima Training Center after a 44-year-old man ruptured his spleen after hitting a tree on Oregon's Mount Adams.

Of the 3,515 Medals of Honor awarded by the United States, some 2,018 have gone to Irish-Americans, according to Patrick McDermot of Irish Veterans Post 2 in Tampa, Fla.. To help explain the numbers, recipient James Charles McCloughan turned to history.

Carly Schroeder appeared on TMZ Live on Wednesday to discuss her decision, sharing that she's already been accepted into Officer Candidate School and has begun training.

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A trooper with the state police department in Massachusetts said the 43-year-old man operating the snowmobile was airlifted to the hospital with unspecified injuries.

Fort Bragg’s All American gate was closed on Tuesday after a man tried to enter the installation, provided several forms of expired ID and became agitated, according to court documents.

The Army recently issued a warning to stay clear of wolves at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, especially now during the wolf mating season. But officials said that if you practice common sense, you don’t need to be afraid of them.

Custom Club was put off limits after “more than a dozen cases of soldiers being hurt, robbed and taken advantage of,” said a U.S. Army Garrison Italy spokesman.

Rep. Don Young wrote to Lt. Gen. Nadja West requesting an investigation of Fort Wainwright's mental health services and factors in recent suicides at the installation.

The 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss is now backed by some movie muscle, thanks to a creative name bestowed upon a new tank by the installation's soldiers.

Fort Bragg’s director of emergency services said a man traveling on a Jordanian passport attempted to breach the gate about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday and was verbally combative but did not attempt to try to get access by force.

Army Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins was killed in action on June 1, 2007, while his unit — Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team 0151 conducted route clearance southwest of Baghdad.

The Army wants $191 billion for its fiscal year 2020 budget, which calls for big investments in new weapons systems to counter adversaries such as Russia and China while also slightly reducing the number of soldiers sought for the active force.

Staff Sgt. Steven McQueen was nearly killed when he was shot from about 20 feet away by a Russian 7.62x54mm round in Afghanistan. His headgear saved his life, and officials say it underscores the importance of protective gear amid a rollout of new and improved body armor.

Spc. Patrick A. McDill, 22, died Sunday at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center from injuries he suffered in the crash. Jasmyne D. Russell-Dicker, 24, of Sanford, has been charged with driving while impaired and unsafe movement causing injury to a motorcyclist, according to a news release.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said the agreements were signed by military tenants living in homes operated by private housing companies on installations, and brought the agreements before fellow senators last week after touring a couple of Fort Bragg, N.C., homes March 1.

The U.S. Army Special Operations Command announced last week that Maj. Mathew Golsteyn agreed to skip an Article 32 hearing in his case involving the slaying of an Afghan national who was suspected of making a bomb that killed two Marines.

The report, required by this fiscal year’s National Defense Authorization Act, note that Army Gen. Raymond A. Thomas III, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, “has directed a 90-day focus period on core values” in special operations culture.

U.S. Army Capt. Antoine Lewis, who family say was stationed in Ottawa, Canada, had served in Afghanistan and was one of eight Americans on board Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 which crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday.

The survey is meant to create a snapshot of the quality of life, health, safety and satisfaction within the Army installation environment.

Prosecutors said that after leaving the military, Joseph Hunter tortured, kidnapped and killed people for years — and that he recruited other former soldiers for criminal activity. But it was his role in the killing of a Philippines real estate agent that resulted in a conviction at trial and sentencing.

As a battalion headquarters unit, the 69 soldiers from the 286th will support five companies from Georgia, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and New York.

Members of the Kansas delegation to Congress are working to advance the decorated military career of Bob Dole, the former U.S. senator who was badly wounded as a solider in World War II.

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney is urging the Defense Department to reopen a unit at Keller Army Community Hospital that was delivering more than 100 babies a year until it closed last year for what was supposed to be a temporary shutdown.

Lt. Col. Anne McClain, who's been at the International Space Station since December, is scheduled to conduct the March 29 spacewalk with fellow astronaut Christina Koch.

Photos with strangers. A kid who insists on calling you "Daddy Captain Marvel." And a little twinge of regret that you won't get to keep the moniker when you get promoted. Those are just a few of the experiences of the actual Capt. Marvels.

More than 3,200 soldiers from 27 countries are testing out NATO’s new counter artillery-fire doctrine, which it previously lacked, during Exercise Dynamic Front 19.

Army Sgt. Holli Bolinski and aSpc. Jackson D. Johnson were deployed to the Army’s sprawling Camp Arifjan in the Middle Eastern nation and died in the wreck early Tuesday morning.

Army officials inadvertently disclosed sensitive information of at least 4,200 immigrant recruits – many of whom are from oppressive nations – in a move that could aid hostile governments in persecuting them or their families, a lawmaker and former U.S. officials said.

The family's effort to save their son's sperm after he died in a skiing accident raises many ethical, moral and legal questions.

Pvt. Peter Cimino, 19, was a mortarman assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment.

The top U.S. officer in Europe told lawmakers Tuesday he has insufficient military firepower on the Continent and wants two more Navy warships under his command along with more ground forces to counter Russia.

Here's a look at two soldiers who recently completed physically grueling courses at a time in their lives when some soldiers might be tempted to coast into retirement.

The soldier is the second in five months and the third in less than a year to be found lifeless in barracks rooms on Caserma Ederle.

Maj. Gen. Carol Timmons ended a 42-year military career Saturday, having spent two years leading the state National Guard.

As a precaution, the Fort Bragg military police evacuated 8 to 10 houses.

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Mold. Dirt. Sewage. Scorpions. Soldiers and civilians at a town hall meeting about housing conditions here on Friday let loose a sometimes emotional barrage of complaints. A recurring theme was a lack of response after complaints were made.

On the bureaucratic battlefield for resources, the military’s largest branch is weaker than the other services in self-promotion, a new RAND report says.

Army Sgt. 1st Class Phillip Kennedy Johnson, writer of “The Last Sons of America,” also plays the trumpet in the U.S. Army Field Band.

Although a legal permanent resident of the U.S. since age 14, a 37-year-old Army veteran was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this month and placed in deportation proceedings due to a 2018 conviction for family violence. But his family wants him home with them.

Several Fort Drum community members complained at an on-post town hall about mold in their homes, expressing concern it’s causing health problems for their children. And it shouldn’t happen to soldiers who put their lives on the line for their country, they said.

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U.S. soldiers here have been advising their counterparts on when and how to use NCOs, and how to delegate more authority to the lower level soldiers.

The gathering at the home of U.S. Army Japan was one of several at Far East bases this month to address housing issues following testimony about dilapidated military homes to the House Armed Services Committee.

A top service official said about $8 billion of the cut would come from cost avoidance measures and $22 billion would be from program reductions and terminations.

The Army and the Pentagon’s purchasing agency are pursuing voluntary refunds from TransDigm Group Inc. after an inspector general’s report found $16.1 million in “excess profit” on $26.2 million in sales by the manufacturer of aircraft components.

The Honolulu Police Department has opened an investigation into the girl’s death, according to a police spokeswoman. A neighbor said she had repeatedly reported the day care to military police and the Army housing authority for unsafe conditions.

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Enoch Woodhouse, one of the Tuskegee Airmen, spent little time talking about himself Monday at Fort Bragg. Instead, he focused on the story of two others: Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., a 1938 West Point graduate and commander of the Tuskegee Airmen, and Navy Capt. Thomas J. Hudner Jr., a Medal of Honor recipient.

Following a series of town hall meetings where soldiers and spouses described abysmal housing conditions on-post, Fort Hood officials announced Monday night that the private company that manages the installation's family housing units will hire additional maintenance workers and that Fort Hood personnel would provide oversight of the company's maintenance efforts.

The servicemembers will likely be transferred to the military’s Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany for more treatment.

To better prepare for the growing cyber threat, the U.S. military needs a workforce capable of preventing, detecting and mitigating attacks, says one expert. Six senior military colleges may be able to help supply that force.

The injured troops, who are assigned to the 21st Theater Sustainment Command based out of Kaiserslautern, Germany, were taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Problems in areas like maintenance, reliability and safety has meant the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle is less desirable than older vehicles in some circumstances, according to an annual report by the Director of Operational Test & Evaluation for the Defense Department.

She’s setting her sights on tougher competition, the Olympic games and a military career that complements her training.

Military working dogs have repeatedly proven their worth in combat zones during America’s lengthy wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, where their discerning snouts have sniffed out explosive booby traps better than any machine could.

No one was hurt after a U.S. military aircraft “experienced a hard landing” Monday in South Korea, an Eighth Army spokeswoman said.

Staff Sgt. Stevon A. Booker, whose unit led the 2003 offensive into Baghdad known as Thunder Run, will be awarded the nation’s second-highest valor medal posthumously, the military said.

Residents of Camp Humphreys gave commanders an earful Friday during a town-hall meeting about housing woes on the U.S. military’s new headquarters base.

US soldiers are working closely with their counterparts to develop the defense program, with the hopes of building lasting improvements to the country’s military, said Maj. Jon-Paul Navarro, the officer in charge of the several dozen U.S. troops here.

The U.S. government's vision for a high-tech melting pot of military officers and Austin tech workers is finally happening.

A 48-year-old U.S. soldier was seriously injured in a car crash near the Army’s garrison in Grafenwoehr, police said.

U.S. military officials plan to launch trap, neuter, release program aimed at slowing the growth of the stray cat population at Yongsan Garrison, an Army installation in the heart of Seoul.

A new effort to survey residents about conditions at military-owned and military-leased housing is to come after a recent report by Reuters found housing provided to military families at many U.S. bases was dilapidated and dangerous.

The 1st Infantry Division’s 1st Combat Aviation Brigade took the stick for the aviation element of Operation Atlantic Resolve during a transfer of authority ceremony Thursday in Illesheim, Germany.

The town halls are being held to allow residents and Army leaders discuss housing conditions, concerns about responsiveness to work orders and expectations in the future.

Kemia Hassel told authorities that she planned the killing of her husband, Sgt. Tyrone Hassel III, on Snapchat in an attempt to hide her communications with an accomplice.

Anniston and the Red River Army Depot in Texarkana, Texas, are the top contenders to become the repair depot for the Armored Multipurpose Vehicle, or AMPV, a new personnel carrier that the Army hopes will replace the storied M113.

Active-duty servicemembers are deploying to the U.S. southern border this week to begin laying more wire barriers, officials with U.S. Army North said. They will join about 2,300 personnel deployed in Texas, Arizona and California.

The 800 soldiers of the brigade, which activated Nov. 29, are prepared for the nine-month deployment in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, officials said. The Army previously announced that the brigade would deploy this spring.

Officials at the William C. Lee Airborne Museum in Dunn believe “some jerk punk” mistook the the founder of the U.S. Army Airborne for Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Jeremy Cuellar, 24, and Kemia Hassel, 22, are charged with murder after police said they were having an affair and planned a fatal attack on Hassel’s husband, U.S. Army Sgt. Tyrone Hassel III, 23, on Monday, Dec. 31, 2018.