Fernandes had been missing for 48 hours before anyone contacted the Army Criminal Investigation Command, setting agents far behind in the race to find Fernandes, who had spent the previous week hospitalized for contemplating suicide.

Spc. Abigail Jenks, 21, of Gansevoort, N.Y., was fatally injured during a static-line jump as part of the training exercise, said Lt. Col. Mike Burns, a spokesman for the 82nd Airborne. She was assigned to the division’s 1st Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team.

Coronavirus restrictions, including quarantine and testing requirements, were eased on bases in two German states where tens of thousands of American service members, DOD civilians and their families live.

Some 100 U.S. soldiers in Kuwait grabbed their loaded rucksacks and marched through the desert in a bid to prove their mental and physical endurance was up to Nordic standards.

Just two events into the famously grueling, three-day Best Ranger competition, Army 1st Lts. Vince Paikowski and Alastair Keys grabbed the lead in the 51-team field and never relinquished it.

Two people were hurt Tuesday when an Army helicopter crashed at a training base in south Alabama, military officials said.

The Army approved a request made by the city government to deploy 250 D.C. National Guard personnel to support local law enforcement in the event that protests erupt after the verdict from the Derek Chauvin trial is announced, the National Guard said.

The Vanessa Guillen Gate at Fort Hood is a reminder to soldiers passing through to look out for one another, said Lupe Guillen, the younger sister of the Army specialist who was killed at the base one year ago this week.

Pfc. Christian G. Alvarado now faces a general court martial on a total of seven sexual assault charges dating back to December 2018. The cases are pending in military court.

For three nearly nonstop days, some of the Army’s most-skilled soldiers overcame a lack of sleep to tough out brutal obstacle courses, miles-long runs and marches, and weapons and tactics challenges as they moved some 75 miles across Fort Benning for a chance at the title of Best Ranger.

Military housing in Europe again fared poorly in a new Army customer satisfaction survey, which showed that garrisons on the Continent are improving but still lag behind their peers in the U.S. and the Asia-Pacific region.

Dillingham Airfield, which has been riding a wave of business generated by mainland tourists seeking to skydive or take a glider flight, may be able to continue general aviation activity beyond a June 30 cutoff with a new agreement close at hand between the state and Army.

Gov. David Ige recently noted that Maj. Gen. Suzanne Vares-Lum made history as the first Native Hawaiian female to attain the rank of general officer in the Army.

What is Fort McClellan? A shuttered post, a mixed-use development, a military training site? Or all three?

Results of the 2021 tenant survey were released Friday and showed a higher participation rate than last year, with nearly 24,500 residents filling out the questionnaire generated by a third-party firm. About 85,000 residents were invited to participate, the Army said.

A report of sexual harassment from a soldier under Army Forces Command now will be investigated by an officer outside of that soldier’s brigade, according to a new policy from the command.

The horrific events around Fort Hood inspired an 11-year quest for Platoni that endures to this day. She and allies have urged the federal government to classify the Fort Hood Massacre as a terrorist attack.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade trained its drivers over the past week on one of the Army’s latest infantry vehicles, ahead of participation in the large-scale Defender-Europe 21 and African Lion exercises later this year.

Most of the 73 West Point cadets accused in the biggest cheating scandal in decades at the U.S. Military Academy are being required to repeat a year, and eight were expelled, academy officials said Friday.

Sikorsky is one of two finalists to deliver the new Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, as it’s called, and it brought a prototype of its S-97 RAIDER to Redstone for a demonstration.

The FBI confirmed Thursday it has joined in the investigation of a December traffic stop in Windsor in which a minority Army officer was pepper sprayed by one of the town’s police officers.

Army Sgt. 1st Class Jonathan Pentland, 42, will remain suspended barring the outcome of an Army investigation into the incident and the outcome of the criminal charges filed against him by the Richland County Sheriff’s Office.

An Army investigation found procedural and performance failures that led to the use of medical helicopters during the civil unrest in the nation’s capital last summer, according to Army officials Wednesday.

The Army began investigating after a video of Staff Sgt. Jonathan Pentland, who is stationed at Fort Jackson, threatening and pushing a Black man went viral on social media.

It wasn’t easy to leave Germany with its tightened coronavirus restrictions to travel to the United States, but the chance to earn the Army’s Best Sniper title made navigating the red tape worthwhile.

A section of the Army’s largest training base in Europe was closed off Wednesday after World War II-era rifle grenades were discovered by workers digging a trench near a building, officials said.

Col. Erin Staine-Pyne said about 40% of the population of Joint Base Lewis-McChord has taken the COVID-19 vaccine.

On Tuesday, Korean War veteran Victor M. Rosario and fellow Borinqueneer and World War II veteran Antonio Morales were honored by the city for their service. Congress passed legislation on Jan. 3 that designated April 13 as National Borinqueneers Day.

Soldiers from Fort Eustis’ 757th Expeditionary Rail Center are drilling on techniques the Army learned more than a century ago, when it dispatched a couple of officers to follow a traveling circus to see how it moved its hundreds of wagons on trains to close in one town and open the next day in another.

Virginia's attorney general has asked a small police department to release personnel records of two officers accused of pepper-spraying and pointing their guns at a Black Army lieutenant during a traffic stop.

Two former soldiers have been indicted on charges including murder in the death of another soldier who was found stabbed to death in his room on a Georgia military base, according to court documents unsealed Monday.

President Joe Biden intends to nominate Christine Wormuth to be the next Army secretary, making her the first woman to hold that position, the White House announced Monday.

Kentucky Army National Guard Lt. Sam Whitehead is on assignment in Washington D.C., but he periodically steps away from protecting the U.S. Capitol to remotely teach his math students at Morehead's Rowan County High School.

Hours after Gov. Ralph Northam on Sunday said he directed state police to investigate the treatment of a Black Army second lieutenant by two Windsor police officers, the town announced one of the officers had been fired.

Military leaders on Fort Bragg have taken to the internet airwaves to talk shop to the troops in the form of podcasts on the latest COVID-19 updates, topics of racism and addiction and more.

U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright presented a box of thank-you cards, notes and posters that he collected through his "Gratitude for the Guard" campaign to members of Alpha Troop, 2-104 Cavalry Squadron at the armory in Hazleton on Saturday afternoon.

During an assumption of command ceremony on Saturday, Col. Thomas Pemberton officially took the reigns of the 434th Air Refueling Wing (ARW) to become the 38th commander of the unit.

Carolyn Timbie's grandmother, Grace Banker, was the chief operator of the U.S. Army Signal Corps women telephone operators. Timbie is helping historians and U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan understand the work done by Signal Corps women during the war, when they became known as the Hello Girls.

When 2nd Lt. Caron Nazario told police on Dec. 5, 2020, that he was "honestly afraid to get out" of the car, the officer replied, "Yeah, you should be!"

The Army Corps of Engineers on Thursday held dedication ceremonies for the pair of survey boats used to ensure Georgia's harbors in Savannah and Brunswick remain free from obstructions.

Government contractor Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has won a $3.6 billion contract to support the Army at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala.

Scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research are examining whether their vaccine candidate can “mix and match” with the others to enhance and prolong protection.

In the wake of this week's deadly shooting, Fort Detrick personnel are extending support services and assessing how to better prepare for the future, should another crisis occur.

The 3rd Infantry Division will send the all-female team of 1st Lt. Trish Burden and 2nd Lt. Amanda Atkinson to the Army’s Best Sapper Competition May 1-4 at Fort Leonard Wood.

Col. Michael Schoenfeldt, commander the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, has been reassigned and is now performing administrative duties, the division said.

The U.S. Army this week began testing a vaccine that could protect against “major variants” and new strains of the coronavirus, one of the vaccine's developers said.

A case that started when a grandmother found a ransom note demanding $20,000 in her 12-year-old granddaughter's empty bedroom led to the conviction of a former Fort Bragg soldier.

HHS has not sent a letter to the Defense Department to use Fort Benning, he said. The Army installation is the home of the service’s infantry, armor, airborne, and Ranger schools.

The U.S. Army is looking for alternatives to traditional military identification cards, which are “known vectors of diseases,” a service bid announcement said.

Previously, soldiers could only wear their ribbons on the Class A version of the uniform, which includes a jacket.

Fort Bragg officials are opening up the COVID-19 vaccine to all TRICARE beneficiaries 16 and older starting next week, officials said in a news release.

The U.S. Postal Service on June 3 will unveil a postage stamp honoring nisei soldiers from Hawaii and the mainland who served in the U.S. military during World War II.

The company commander of an ordnance disposal unit at Fort Campbell, Ky., broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest mile run by a woman wearing a bomb disposal suit Saturday at George Mason University.

Sen. Jim Inhofe, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, "has been briefed on the situation and has been assured that the base and the Army are taking the necessary action," according to a spokesperson.

Fort Benning will host the Best Sniper competition between April 12-16 and the Best Ranger competition between April 16-19, taking precautions meant to mitigate the risk of spreading the coronavirus, officials said.

Levels of potentially toxic lead in the blood of special operations forces who used a firing range in Germany fell significantly after the Army made changes to the training facilities and requirements for soldiers who use them, a study has found.

Officials declined to say exactly what day the soldier said the assault occurred, in what capacity the training personnel might have been involved or exactly how many personnel have been suspended because of the assault.

According to Fort Bragg's crime statistics for fiscal year 2020, there were 177 reports of larceny of government property.

The Integrated Visual Augmentation System, known as IVAS, is part of a broader set of investments meant to make military intelligence data more useful to deployed soldiers, who must quickly make decisions in far-flung battlefields based on the limited information available to them.

Far-reaching "precision fires" are the Army's No. 1 modernization priority under its biggest change in 40 years and as it seeks new capability by fiscal 2023, including its first hypersonic weapon and a missile that can hit targets up to 930 miles away.

Pfcs. Daniel Cano-Real, 19, and John Medina, 20, are charged with first-degree robbery and kidnapping and were listed Tuesday as inmates at Thurston County Jail with bond set at $150,000.

The Pentagon approved a request last week from the Department of Health and Human Services to support the temporary housing of children at two Texas military bases: Fort Bliss, which is near El Paso, and Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.

Maj. Gen. Adam Joks was appointed as deputy commander of the U.S. Army’s recently reestablished V Corps headquarters.

A U.S. soldier who was pulled over by Italian Carabinieri twice in the same night for suspected driving under the influence faces a potential fine of more than 8,000 euros, media reports said.

The 88th Operations Support Squadron and 88 Logistics Readiness Squadron at Wright-Patterson will provide transient support for the U.S. Army as helicopters from Fort Drum travel to a Joint-Readiness Training Center exercise at Fort Polk.

Since 2014, Fort Bragg has displayed more than 7,000 boots each year to represent service members from all branches who have died since 9/11.

A lawsuit involving more than 229,000 veterans with hearing problems that they claim are linked to faulty earplugs issued by the military begins its first trial Monday in a Florida federal courtroom.

Col. Michael Schoenfeldt, who led the 1st Armored Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, until he departed Germany for Texas in February, faces numerous allegations by subordinate officers related to what they described as a bullying leadership style.

A team of El Paso residents on Saturday held a prayer day and released balloons in honor of Fort Bliss soldier Pvt. Richard Halliday who has now been missing for more than eight months.

The Army is investigating the death Thursday of a 28-year-old soldier who was in the final phase of Ranger School at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, service officials said Friday.

Women in the Army will be allowed to wear their hair in long ponytails in all uniforms, the service’s top enlisted leader has said.

The Pentagon had announced on Feb. 23 that Brig. Gen. Joseph Ryan would become deputy chief of staff for operations for NATO’s Resolute Support Mission, but it appears that nomination was not confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

Fort Bliss will have 5,000 beds available for migrant children after the west Texas base was approved to temporarily house them, President Joe Biden announced Thursday.

The 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Armored Division at the west Texas base will send about 3,700 soldiers to South Korea as part of an ongoing rotation of troops to defend the peninsula.

Bomb technicians and explosive ordnance disposal units scattered across Camp Gruber this week to learn about emerging threats and hone their skills during a live-fire tactical training exercise.

The Netherlands will spend more than $40 million to expand a U.S. Army weapons depot in the country, where gear is pre-positioned for soldiers to draw from in a crisis, defense officials said.

The extremism stand-down is taking place at bases across the world for all branches, and it’s getting mixed reviews. The Army, as the largest force, has the most people going through the training.

The U.S. Army will transform over the next 14 years into a multidomain power capable of operating as an “inside force” within an adversary’s defensive zones, according to a strategy paper released Tuesday by the service.

According to court records, Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, an Army reservist and military contractor, admits using hand signals to encourage others to push past police lines and entering the building through a door kicked open from the inside during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

Despite the increased incentive last year, the Army only saw a minor uptick in the percentage of soldiers choosing to conduct personally procured moves, which used to be known as do-it-yourself, or DITY, moves.

One change that will be implemented with ACFT 3.0 is the permanent inclusion of the two-minute plank as an alternative event to the leg-tuck, in which soldiers hang from a pull-up bar and tuck their knees up to their chins.

Soldiers will have a year to get back in shape after giving birth, the Army has announced. The service previously gave postpartum soldiers six months to meet body fat standards and pass its physical fitness test.

Since taking over as commander of the 1st Armored Division and Fort Bliss in September, Maj. Gen. Sean Bernabe has worked to implement what he calls “positive disruption” of the installation's current practices of addressing and preventing sexual assault.

Agents for the Fort Bliss Criminal Investigation Command were dispatched to investigate the scene and determined “the remains have been there for quite some time, due to their condition.”

Fort Bragg officials developed a solution to vaccine skepticism that they say has shown promise: listen to soldiers, walk them through concerns and mint ambassadors out of skeptical soldiers who changed their minds.

A U.S. Army helicopter that made a precautionary landing in a Bavarian field two days ago flew back to its base in Katterbach on Friday, service officials said.

Sgt. 1st Class Allan Edwards, 31, died Monday in El Paso after being shot by his teenaged stepson. No charges have been filed in the incident.

The marketing of a virtual seminar dubbed: “Workplace Allies ... Partnering to Break the Glass Ceiling” raised concerns.

Top Army officials stripped the awards from former Maj. Mathew Golsteyn as the service probed his admitted killing of an unarmed Afghan man while the Green Beret was deployed to Marjah in 2010.

In an effort to change how and what soldiers eat, the service has begun rebranding its dining facilities, modernizing them and upgrading their offerings to prioritize fresh or frozen ingredients over heavily processed foods.

U.S. Marines, soldiers and airmen for nearly two weeks polished a new approach to island warfare in the Western Pacific designed to deny surrounding seas to potential adversaries.

Investigators said Spc. Jesus Jomar Moreno lost his helmet as a result of the impact and suffered life-threatening injuries. He was transported to a local hospital where he later died.

Allan Edwards, a soldier with the 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss, died after being shot several times Sunday night at an apartment complex in Northeast El Paso, police said.

The Department of Defense has announced 13 leadership changes for Fort Bragg, N.C., since the start of 2021.

Members of Congress nominate white students to military service academies at disproportionately high rates, leading to an underrepresentation of minorities there and among the military’s pool of general officers.