A jury convicted Wayne Sellers IV of all counts — including first-degree murder — in the October 2018 slaying. One of his co-defendants, Kyle Robert Watts, was also an active-duty Air Force chef at F.E Warren Air Force Base at the time of the shooting.

The U.S. Army is defending a decision to close its historic 57-year-old space and technical library at Redstone Arsenal. Army officials said it was a joint decision made by interested parties.

Bill Tamburrino, a retired Baltimore City public schools vice principal and a World War II veteran who painted the likenesses of famous women on bombers, died of heart disease Sept. 17 at a family member’s home. The Fallston resident was 98.

Spc. Ezra Maes spent four months in intensive care undergoing near daily surgeries and battling an infection. He’s now assigned to the Warrior Transition Battalion and undergoing physical and occupational therapy.

An Army-supported research program has plans to bring robotic buses to Colorado troops at Fort Carson.

Staff Sgt. Lauren Beecroft wasn’t going to miss seeing her freshman daughter, Avrie Brode, play in Schuylkill Haven’s junior varsity match against Williams Valley in Pennsylvania. Even though Beecroft was stationed in Europe.

The Army is defending what it says was a joint decision of stakeholders on Redstone Arsenal to close an historic 57-year-old space and technical library.

The killing of Army Spc. Jacob Bishop was a deliberate, isolated act, police said Tuesday, after the National Guardsman's body was found more than a week ago in his Tennessee home bound and shot multiple times.

Two active duty soldiers have been treated for vaping-related lung injuries, the Army said Thursday as it issued a new warning to servicemembers to lay off electronic cigarettes.

The operation, led by Chief Warrant Officer 2 Frank Cocciolillo, was a team-building opportunity for the unit, which supports the Jordan Armed Forces Joint Training Center in Amman.

Through a six-hour firefight in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan’s Nuristan province on April 6, 2008, Army Master Sgt. Matthew O. Williams continuously braved insurgent rocket-propelled-grenade, sniper and machine gun fire, allowing his fellow soldiers to escape alive.

Capt. Travis Johnson grabbed medical gear and combat shears and rushed to the aid of a man in a burning vehicle, officials said.

The Oklahoma Army National Guard officially promoted its newest general officer, Brig. Gen. Tommy Mancino, on Tuesday. However, this will not be the first time a Mancino has been addressed as general in the Oklahoma Army National Guard.

A soldier killed in a training accident last year at Joint Base Lewis-McChord died after he was pinned underneath a Stryker during a break between missions, according to records of an Army investigation released to The News Tribune this week.

Adam Benaway defended his title to earn first place in his class among more than 60 racers from across the United States and other countries in September at the SCCA's 2019 Nationals in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Garrison commanders in Europe now have the authority to approve the use of portable air conditioning units in base family housing, eliminating the need to seek higher command backing, according to a new Army policy.

Remains belonging to a soldier from Tennessee who was killed in the Korean War are scheduled for burial, Wednesday, at Arlington National Cemetery.

Ryan Charles Petro, a soldier stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., was taken into custody Monday, Oct. 7 on five counts of first-degree rape stemming from an investigation into a sexual assault that was reported to Auburn, Ala. police on May 29, 2018.

Gilberto Chavez Jr. was found guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Capt. Daniel Lehman, an Army officer from Santa Fe who was shot dead in downtown Colorado Springs a little over a year ago.

The investment will cover renovations of 280 homes to include new energy systems, electrical upgrades, eliminating vents on roofs, creating more square-footage space and bringing the homes up to current housing codes

Lt. Gen. Paul LaCamera handed the 18th Airborne Corps' command responsibilities to Lt. Gen. Michael "Erik" Kurilla at Fort Bragg's Main Post flag pole.

Defender Europe-20, which will take place in 10 nations, will resemble the massive “Reforger” drills held during the Cold War era.

“Mission Command Element” is now known as 1st Infantry Division (Forward).

Maj. Donn C. Young was co-piloting a crippled U.S. Army Air Corps B-25 bomber on Jan. 18, 1943, when it rammed into a mountainside during a thunderstorm. Young’s remains were recovered in 1998, but only recently did DNA testing positively confirm them as his.

The U.S. Army has named Maj. Gen. Matthew McFarlane as the new top general at Fort Carson, Colo.

U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis skydived with the Golden Knights U.S. Army Parachute Team on Thursday at Fort Bragg, his office announced.

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell says he's working to secure sufficient funding for Kentucky's military posts, including a new middle school at Fort Campbell.

A resolution introduced last week by U.S. Rep. Julia Brownley proposed a Forever stamp series to honor women who served in the military, including two Stark County, Ohio, women who were killed in action.

Pfc. Glendon Oakley was detained on a “military desertion warrant” issued by Fort Hood. Contrary to being absent without leave, or AWOL, desertion characterizes the servicemember as intending to remain absent.

More than 30 Alaska-based U.S. Army paratroopers were injured, some of them badly enough to require hospital care, during a night jump Wednesday at a Mississippi training.

Federal prosecutors charged Rian Patterson, 22, Devin Diggs, 20, and Tyrease Kimmons, 20, after nine guns were stolen from two licensed gun shops in the North County region over the last three weeks.

Continuing to grow its presence in Texas, the Austin-based Army Futures Command said Wednesday it will provide $65 million to the Texas A&M University System to support military research operations on a College Station campus.

Corvias, a business partner with the U.S. military, will create 96 new homes in the Warner Peterson neighborhood and renovate 32 homes in the Rim Rock neighborhood at Fort Riley.

Originally meant for urban, desert and wooded battlefields, the green-blue-gray Universal Camouflage Pattern was ultimately scorned as virtually useless in most environments and had largely disappeared in recent years from major Army posts.

In addition to the renovation of 280 homes at Fort Bragg, more than 2,850 homes will be weatherproofed, new floors will be installed in more than 200 homes, about 300 homes will have cleaning of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems, lead-paint remediation will be completed in 280 homes and more than 1,000 homes will be power-washed.

Retired Gen. Ann Dunwoody, the first female general to earn four stars, will receive the Thayer Award from the West Point Association of Graduates on Oct. 10.

“Eco-friendly” might not be what springs to mind when most people think of military bases, but the special exhibit called “Green Paradise and Military Training” highlights the efforts being made by the environmental protection division at the U.S. Army's Grafenwoehr training facility.

The soldiers of Special Operations Task Force 102 received five Silver Star medals, seven Bronze Star medals with Valor devices, 15 Army Commendation medals with Valor devices and 21 Purple Hearts in one deployment.

U.S. Army in Ansbach concealing details about groundwater contamination, German officials say

Thousands of allied and partner nations’ troops fought each other in large-scale military drills known as Saber Junction, with staff from the U.S. Consul General in Munich also taking part.

Soldiers from the Fort Bragg, N.C.-based 432nd Blood Support Detachment jumped out of a CH-47 Chinook with rehydrated, freeze-dried plasma packed in their ruck sacks.

Seaman Juan Jose Garcia-Herrera and Maj. Trevor Joseph died in separate incidents last week in San Diego and Fort Polk, La.

Preparing for her husband’s burial at Arlington National Cemetery, Sgt. 1st Class Elis A. Barreto Ortiz’s widow said she had only begun to grieve since his death earlier this month on his second deployment to Afghanistan.

After months overseas in Europe and Afghanistan, thousands of 1st Infantry Division troops are returning home. Fort Riley-based units are wrapping up nine-month deployments that began in January and February.

Pvt. Andrew Dante’ McLean, 18, was halfway through his 10-week basic training course when he collapsed during training, according to the Fort Jackson Public Affairs Office. The cause of death has not been released.

David Guerra, 19, is accused of several felonies, including soliciting for child prostitution, since he met with a 17-year-old Colorado Springs girl several times for sex.

The first “Defender Pacific” — the Pentagon’s most significant exercise for the region in 2020 — is expected to be followed by an even bigger version involving more than 10,000 mainland soldiers.

The Army Black Hawk helicopter dipped below distant treetops Friday afternoon after Spc. Tyler Billings, standing on a plateau, got an ultraviolet bead on it with a man-portable aircraft survivability trainer (MAST) that resembles a rocket launcher.

The Army’s decision to buy a new generation of radars developed at Lockheed Martin’s plant in suburban Syracuse will help address weaknesses in U.S.-made air defenses exposed earlier this month in Saudi Arabia, military analysts say.

The junior U.S. senator from North Carolina told Fort Bragg residents he wanted to know about specific issues while he worked on finding a broad way to handle problems with military housing.

U.S. Army Pacific commander Robert Brown was honored with a farewell ceremony at Fort Shafter on Friday. He will retire from a 38-year Army career next month with an official ceremony on the mainland.

A military officer who was in charge of all White House communications for the U.S. Army at Mar-a-Lago was placed on probation Friday after admitting he lied to federal agents who were investigating him for child pornography.

After conducting testing at more than 60 battalions in recent months, Army leaders grouped military occupational specialties, or MOS, into three levels with different scoring requirements based on the typical physical demands of those jobs.

Ryan McCarthy, who has served as the acting Army secretary for two months, was confirmed Thursday as the service’s top civilian by a voice vote of the Senate.

Maryland Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin have introduced a bill to extend death benefits to ROTC members who die before they’re able to serve their first active duty assignment for the military.

The Fort Pickett-based 34th Civil Support Team is made up of 22 full-time Army and Air National Guard personnel who bring a wide range of military skills as well as career experience from the civilian sector.

Soldiers at Fort Riley, Kan., were the first to begin training on the Army’s newest night vision technology — a goggle-binocular that offers improved visibility in smoke and dust, operates without ambient light and provide "more real-time information."

Staff Sgt. Kelly L. Richards, 32, died during the training at Camp Casey, where he had been sent temporarily to participate in the EFMB testing while his unit was deployed to Kuwait, according to the Army.

The crash occurred just after midnight as a four-person crew in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from 1st Battalion, 5th Aviation Regiment, were conducting a medical evacuation mission of a soldier at the Fort Polk’s Joint Readiness Training Center.

The U.S. Army picked Lockheed Martin’s plant in suburban Syracuse for a contract worth up to $3 billion to build its next generation of radars for short-range air defenses, Pentagon and government officials told Syracuse.com.

A list of U.S. Army soldiers who have been selected for promotion to the rank of sergeant, as of October 1, 2019.

U.S.-backed efforts to modernize Ukraine’s military were put to the test this month in an exercise involving NATO allies and servicemembers from the former Soviet republic, which is locked in conflict with Russia.

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Starting Tuesday, Yongsan Garrison will rely on local emergency services from outside the gates when the base hospital suspends its emergency services.

“The extremely lax flight regulations for U.S. helicopters stationed in Ansbach-Katterbach and Illesheim put lives in danger,” the Etz Langt’s pressure group said in a statement posted on its website.

Political realities in Europe are among the problems and could undermine the heart of the Army’s modernization push, says the report published this week with the London-based Royal United Services Institute.

More than 500 U.S. soldiers and dozens of tanks and heavy fighting vehicles will deploy to Lithuania in the coming days on an extended mission to bulk up NATO’s eastern flank, the Baltic country’s military said Wednesday.

An Army Criminal Investigation Command memo issued Monday put commanders at Fort Sill, Okla., on notice regarding “disturbing and very specific chatter in the dark web” about a possible mass shooting during the Oct. 4 release of the new “Joker” movie.

Between December 2015 and October 2017, while employed as a manpower analyst with the command, Ramon Torry devised a scheme to steal more than $400,000 from the 63rd Regional Support Command.

Timothy Scheitlin, 43, will serve six months of home confinement for stealing more than $95,000 from Tobyhanna Army Depot between 2014 and 2017.

One of two suspects in the shooting death of Germany-based soldier Spc. Marlon Brumfield has been charged with murder, according to media reports.

The soldiers, who included part of the brigade's headquarters and the 319th Military Intelligence Battalion, deployed in October 2018 to Afghanistan as combined "Task Force Lighting," in support of Operation Resolute Support, officials said.

Christopher Darnell Harris, a 25-year-old former Army truck driver, pleaded guilty to a variety of charges — including two counts of possession of stolen firearms and simple possession of marijuana.

Pfc. Jarrett William Smith was charged with distributing information related to explosives and weapons of mass destruction. In a criminal complaint, FBI officials said Smith provided bombmaking recipes in Facebook conversations.

Local police and fire department officials said nobody was injured in the incident, which occurred at about 2 p.m. in Yongin, just south of Seoul. Officials also said the container apparently contained fuel pump equipment.

Sgt. Ken Conrad Chambers, a signal support system specialist with the 70th Brigade Engineer Battalion, was found dead on post in Alaska on Thursday.

An 18-year-old Army recruit at Fort Jackson died following a “medical emergency” before a training drill, according to an officials with the base.

One of the first female graduates of the Army Ranger School won the women’s race at Bagram’s Army Ten-Miler shadow run, while a Fort Riley-based soldier took the top podium spot in the men’s race.

“These uniforms were nonstandard in nature, which demonstrates the uniqueness of U.S. Army Special Forces and their mission,” said Lt. Col. Loren Bymer, U.S. Army Special Operations Command spokesman.

Yes, doctors took a second look and realized Nasair Boston-Epps was fit, said Lt. Col. Brendan Toolan, commander of the Mid-Atlantic Recruiting Battalion. But it was his grit that did it.

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The U.S. military broke ground for the Brian D. Allgood Army Community Hospital in November 2012 — but construction problems and quality control issues filled the years that followed, as the South Korean contractor struggled to meet rigid U.S. standards.

The Army Inspector General’s report, compiled in February and March and released in early September, painted a stark picture of privately-run housing programs at 49 Army installations, including Fort Eustis in Newport News.

The plan to move most American forces from bases in Seoul and near the border with North Korea stems from agreements reached in the early 2000s, but it was frequently delayed due to construction problems and quality-control issues.

U.S. Army Reserve Spec. Merchisedeck Uwumwami joined the military to defend the United States and its citizens. On Tuesday, the 28-year-old Rwanda native and Dayton resident became one of those citizens.

A Baumholder soldier's baby was unconscious when paramedics came to help.

The U.S. Army is adding more cyber defense teams and intensifying the training required of its high-tech operators to better equip them to take on 21st-century adversaries, the head of U.S. Cyber Command said.

Thousands of runners will make Fort Bragg glow during a 4.1 mile run this week. The Neon Night Run is scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday. The race had more than 3,000 runners last year, said Keagan McDonald, special events coordinator for Morale, Welfare and Recreation at Fort Bragg.

The Army has met its fiscal year 2019 recruiting goal, service officials said Tuesday, crediting a retooled effort focused largely on attracting young men and women through internet applications and in large cities the military had long ignored.

Blue sparks and the zap of a welding torch marked the beginning of a new class of U.S. Army landing craft under construction at Vigor Industrial in Vancouver.

The 510th Regional Support Group and six subordinate units were activated at Sembach Kaserne.

Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy W. Griffin, 40, of Greenbrier, Tenn., died in action Monday in Wardak province.

The name of the servicemember was being withheld until 24 hours after next of kin notification, per standard procedure, according to a statement released Monday by the U.S.-led Resolute Support mission in Kabul.

When an Army investigator interviewed Ryan Leigh Dostie after she reported being raped by a fellow soldier, he kept asking her why she didn't say "no."

Cheers, hugs and handshakes filled the pack shed at Fort Bragg's Green Ramp on Sunday, as more than 400 soldiers with the 18th Airborne Corps returned home from a yearlong deployment.

Lt. Gen. Pat White, leader of the Army's III Armored Corps, assumed command of Operation Inherent Resolve from Lt. Gen. Paul LaCamera, head of the service’s XVIII Airborne Corps, in a ceremony in Baghdad on Saturday.

Soldiers at Fort Bragg previously went to places like Fort Stewart, Georgia, for training. Now Fort Bragg is receiving requests from other installations that want to use its newest range.