It's part of a general officer swap that's designed to strengthen bonds between the U.S. and France, according to the Army.

The jump was part of an event sponsored by the nearby town of Avranches, which was liberated by U.S. forces in 1944.

The 82nd Airborne Division will induct its second Hall of Fame class on Wednesday during All American Week, the division's celebration of paratroopers past and present.

The physical injuries kept Ronnie Sanchez Jr. from moving as fast as he wanted on the Appalachian Trail, but it was the unseen wounds that almost made him quit. Sanchez spent 16 years in the Army and did three tours in Iraq as a combat engineer.

Military officials on Friday identified three Las Vegas-area Nevada National Guardsmen injured in a fatal rollover crash during a training exercise Wednesday in Louisiana.

The Hawaii state Supreme Court is considering a case in which plaintiffs have said the state has not enforced the terms of a lease for Army training grounds, a 156 square-mile property on Hawaii Island used for combat and live-fire training.

Former Sen. Bob Dole was officially promoted from Army captain to the honorary rank of colonel during a ceremony Thursday at the World War II Memorial in Washington, becoming the third and only living recipient of such an honor in the service’s 244-year history.

One person was hospitalized after being shot Wednesday during a fight at a home on Fort Carson that led to online tweets and posts about an active shooter on the Army post.

Cavalrymen at an exercise fought in their Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicles alongside Finnish Leopard 2 main battle tanks, against Marine M1A1 Abrams tanks and LAV-25 light armored vehicles.

The U.S. Army has awarded a $130 million contract to Dynetics to develop a 100-kilowatt high energy laser, which rides on top of a tactical vehicle. Dynetics is working with Lockheed Martin, Rolls-Royce and MZA Associates on the project.

A 1st Special Forces Command soldier died and 12 others were injured after a military vehicle rolled over during training in Louisiana, military officials said Thursday.

A record 32 black women are set to graduate from West Point next week.

Zackery B. Laney, who was an active duty sergeant in the Army at the time of his crimes, used his military ID to purchase products containing pseudoephedrine with the intent to manufacture meth, officials said.

Maj. Mathew Golsteyn's next court appearance has not been set and all future trial dates will be determined by the military judge, officials said.

A new veterans memorial in Broussard, Louisiana, will pay tribute to a local solider who lost his life while serving for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan.

Two Fort Hood soldiers were among 10 men arrested last week on the charge that they solicited a prostitute during a three-day human trafficking sting, according to officials for the Bell County Sheriff’s Department.

The 2nd Infantry Division has launched a Friday Night Fights tournament featuring progressively more difficult hand-to-hand combat to promote readiness within its formations.

About 100 Marines and sailors at Fort Gordon will participate in the 15th annual Tribute to the Fallen run. Each day for 10 days, Marines and sailors will take turns running laps around Barton Field, about three miles per lap, continuously.

Army veteran Tim Conway, the impish second banana to Carol Burnett who won four Emmy Awards on her TV variety show, starred aboard “McHale’s Navy” and later voiced the role of Barnacle Boy for “Spongebob Squarepants,” died in Los Angeles after a long illness.

Sophie Tajch Klisman, 89, on Monday greeted Doug Harvey, 95, with a hug and thanked him for taking part in the 1945 liberation of the Salzwedel camp, telling him, “You gave me my life.”

A Savannah, Ga., police officer who was shot and killed Saturday night while responding to a robbery was a husband, father and military veteran, Savannah Police Department Chief Roy Minter said during a press conference Sunday night.

Sgt. Derek Walker lifts his 1-year-old son Beau into the air, balancing the blond boy on one hand. Over and over again, Walker thrusts Beau into the air as the boy giggles. There won't be many more chances for this, at least for the next 12 months.

The DeGlopper Air Assault School on Fort Bragg is shutting down, officials announced through the school's Facebook page Friday.

One hundred years ago today, Harry Gowdy — commonly known as "Hank" — enjoyed a hero's homecoming from World War I, parading through Columbus, Ohio, as part of the Army's 42nd Infantry "Rainbow" Division.

After a grueling weeklong competition, four soldiers stationed in Europe walked away as winners of the U.S. Army Europe Best Warrior Competition.

Nicholas Eslinger's quick action that night in October 2008 saved six soldiers from potential injury or death, earning him a Silver Star Medal in 2009. Last week, he received an upgraded award — a Distinguished Service Cross, the Army’s second-highest award for combat valor.

Sgt. 1st Class Lincoln Crisler at Fort Gordon, Ga., posted the video in April, and it has drawn millions of views.

Surrounded by friends, family and fellow special operations soldiers, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Jason W. Myers received his second Distinguished Service Cross for his role in helping rescue 15 hostages while deployed to Afghanistan in 2011.

Kurt Lang fled Nazi Germany for New York City with his family in 1936 when he was 12. Drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II, he returned in 1944 to his homeland, where he saw combat, most notably at the Battle of Remagen.

German authorities were required to investigate whether the American used reasonable or excessive force in defending himself during the attack on Feb. 10.

Rather than putting all 800 soldiers of Army’s new training brigade into one war-torn nation, the Army is expected to begin dispatching the unit’s small teams separately to countries in Europe, Africa or other regions where they will train and advise local forces.

Pfc. Corwyn Storm Carver, a combat medic assigned to the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, is thought to be a member of Atomwaffen Division, a white supremacist group.

Spc. Miguel L. Holmes died in Nangarhar province from wounds sustained in a noncombat incident, according to a Defense Department statement. The incident is under investigation.

U.S. Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas was elected Monday to serve a third term as chairman of the United States Military Academy Board of Visitors.

Retired U.S. Army Col. Richard Gulley is suing the service for refusing to provide records that he said could help clear his name, which was tarnished after he endured a criminal investigation over housing allowance payments.

Staff Sgt. Trevor J. Kurtzhals, a member of the 1075th Transportation Company, died Saturday after a medical emergency during fitness training at an armory in Broken Bow, Neb.

A bill named after a Fort Bragg soldier is making its way through Congress after he testified this week that he can't hold the doctors who misdiagnosed him accountable for his terminal cancer.

A Camp Humphreys soldier's teenage daughter who was reported missing, "has been located and reunited with her family," according to an Army notice posted on social media on Saturday.

If you’re still searching for that perfect wildflower picture, don’t go to Fort Hunter Liggett. The Army is asking visitors to avoid the installation while the area experiences a super bloom of wildflowers.

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Liquat A. Khan was found on Tower Road near the Gillis Field House around 8:15 a.m. Thursday during a physical fitness test. He was taken by ambulance to Keller Army Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

World War II Army veteran Nelson Henry believed he had no choice when his superiors offered him a “blue discharge” in 1945 to leave the military along with thousands of other black soldiers targeted because of their race.

It truly was a family affair. When Gen. James McConville arrived for a Senate hearing on his nomination to become the Army's next chief of staff, he had backup from his wife — a former Army captain — and four family members, all active duty soldiers.

U.S. military officials say the types of forces that could be stationed in Poland are still being considered, suggesting the final arrangement could be something less than a sprawling base.

The 32-year-old Schofield Barracks soldier was on the Big Island as part of a training mission, Army officials said. He was airlifted to the hospital in critical condition, but was upgraded to stable on Thursday, according to NPR.

On May 15, World War II veteran Morton N. Katz will celebrate his 100th birthday. And he’ll spend part of that day at the courthouse, representing a criminal defendant who could not afford to hire a lawyer. There’s really no other place he’d rather be.

An Army AH-64 Apache unit at Wheeler Army Airfield made some history Wednesday — and gained a lot of attention from the shore — by flying 19 of the wasp-like attack helicopters in formation around Oahu to celebrate an anniversary and demonstrate the squadron’s capability.

Women seeking health care at Department of Veterans Affairs facilities often have longer wait times for appointments than men, and one in four have reported being sexually harassed or had their military service questioned.

A University of South Carolina trustee said Friday’s student protests against former West Point Superintendent Robert Caslen did not influence his decision in the search for the school’s new president that ended without any of the candidates being selected, at least for now.

Artillery rounds blasted from howitzers aboard Army landing craft during a recent training mission, the first time in decades that boats from the service’s little-known fleet of watercraft have conducted a fire mission.

The orders were simple: the general, a famous horse enthusiast, directed the 2nd Cavalry Regiment to save a group of purebred horses from slaughter.

Maj. Gen. Brian J. Mennes comes to Fort Drum from Washington and a job with the Pentagon, where he served as Director of Force Management for the Headquarters Department of the Army.

Retired Major Gen. Eldon Bargewell, 72, former commander of the elite Delta Force, died Monday after his lawnmower rolled over an embankment behind his house in Eufaula, Ala.

The Army's proposed budget calls for saving $962 million through 2024 by cutting 28 of 68 previously planned Chinook heavy lift helicopters. A Senate letter said that halting the Chinook purchases could cost 1,000 jobs across the nation.

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The so-called "trap, neuter, release" program was the culmination of a monthslong effort by a Yongsan resident, who noticed over 200 feral cats populated the soon-to-be vacated Army garrison in the heart of Seoul.

A soldier’s murder, a leftist militant group’s 1985 terrorist attack and a sister’s lingering questions are the focus of a documentary film being shown in Wiesbaden on Wednesday.

Kids at Grafenwoehr, Germany, got to climb inside a UH-60 Black Hawk and see what some of their parents, who are Army helicopter crewmen, do for a living.

The culture of abuse and mistrust cultivated over decades in the Virgin Islands National Guard resulted in a chaotic, disorganized environment in which training and actual military operations suffered, according to a federal report by the U.S. National Guard Bureau’s Office of Complex Investigations.

Pfc. Michael A. Thomason, 28, of Lincoln Park, Mich., died of “wounds sustained from a non-combat incident” in Kobani, Syria, according to a statement issued late Monday by the Pentagon.

A crowd gathered near New Bedford, Mass., to commemorate the 75th anniversary of a World War II training operation off the coast of England that ended in tragedy when tank landing ships full of American soldiers were discovered and ambushed by German E-boats.

The Army Reserve has reopened the 500-acre Keystone Local Training Area in northwestern Pennsylvania, which closed in 2012 due to the need for improvements.

When Fort Dix first landed on the Pentagon's dreaded closure list in 1988, it caught many state and local officials by surprise. The Army post which had trained American soldiers since 1917 – ended up being spared outright closure, but lost it's basic training mission and with it thousands of military and civilian jobs.

About 75 University of South Carolina students gathered Friday to protest the board of trustees for considering as a presidential finalist Robert L. Caslen, the former superintendent at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Fort Bragg officials issued an apology late Thursday, after realizing shutting off power to tens of thousands of post residents created alarm on the post and generated some rather bizarre conspiracy theories in the surrounding community.

Only two West Point graduates went on to earn the rank of general and be elected president of the United States. Now there are statues of both men at their alma mater.

In February, the 2nd ID was honored during the opening ceremonies of Super Bowl LIII and invited back by Melissa Schiller, the NFL’s director of community relations, to participate in the televised draft, which averaged 5.5 million viewers in 2018.

Gen. Ann Dunwoody will be presented with the Sylvanus Thayer Award at a ceremony at West Point on Oct. 10. She will be honored with a parade by the corps of cadets prior to the ceremony.

Fort Bragg says the Army base had a “blackout” for more than 12 hours overnight Wednesday as part of a cyber-attack military exercise that came as a complete surprise to its tens of thousands of residents.

One U.S. Army unit in Europe has found a popular way to keep soldiers from getting behind the wheel after downing steins of the local Bavarian lager.

Robert L. Caslen, the former superintendent at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, made his case to be the University of South Carolina’s next president at a public forum Wednesday.

Col. Gregory S. Townsend, 46, commander of the 23rd Quartermaster Brigade at Fort Lee in Virginia, died Monday.

Cesar Vargas made a vow to join the military when he was a high school student after the 9/11 attacks. On Thursday, the 35-year-old will realize a major milestone in that dream, graduating from the Army Reserve’s Basic Combat Training at Fort Leonard Wood.

The interaction occurred as the Americans were conducting mobile surveillance camera operations at about 2 p.m. April 13 near Clint, Texas, according to a U.S. Northern Command official.

The study comes as the Army moves away from its legacy retirement system, which pays a larger guaranteed amount to soldiers after at least 20 years of service, to a blended system that pays out after less time served.

Seoul announced earlier this month that it planned to allow the public to hike on so-called “DMZ peace trails” in three areas near the border with North Korea.

Sgt. 1st Class Justin Goff, a 29-year-old from Florida, was killed at the Cape Fear Regional Airport in Oak Island, N.C.

Just months before he shot and killed her, former Fort Drum soldier Justin Walters admitted in a text message to his wife Nichole that he entered the Army so he could legally kill people.

Spc. Ryan Dennis Orin Riley, 22, died Saturday in Iraq's Ninawa province. He was serving in the 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell, Ky.

Col. Andrew Morgan, a veteran of two deployments to Afghanistan and one to Iraq, is set for a July 20 launch on a nine-month mission to the International Space Station.

The Army will revamp its centralized promotion board processes over the next few years to focus on advancing senior noncommissioned officers on merit, not time served.

The Army is under its authorized strength for aviators, especially AH-64 Apache pilots, who take longer and are more expensive to train than many other pilots.

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Jewish servicemembers and families in the Grafenwoehr community marked the start of Passover with traditional Seder dinners Friday.

One gunshot wound to the chest from friendly fire — that’s the story Spc. Kamisha Block’s family was told about her Aug. 16, 2007 noncombat death in Iraq. But when Block’s body arrived back home, her family started asking questions.

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The new test, which includes six new fitness events, is intended to “better connect fitness with combat readiness.” The plan is to adopt the new test for on-the-record fitness evaluations servicewide no later than October 2020.

Cornelius Dewayne Harrison Jr., who has stationed at Fort Bliss at he time of the crime, was convicted of shooting Frank Alexander Hernandez Jr. several times in front of several witnesses because he believed Hernandez was stealing from him.

Sgt. 1st Class Kai Waters, a 15-year veteran with combat tours of Afghanistan and Iraq and a clean military record, was charged with felony assault after a February road rage incident. Waters claimed she was acting in self-defense.

Army Sgt. 1st Class Nicholas Sheperty was pronounced dead in Suffolk, Va., after he was injured during an airborne operations exercise Wednesday.

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen Jr., hired to “lead change” at the University of Central Florida after school leaders acknowledged the use or planned misuse of more than $85 million in leftover operating funds for construction, is a finalist for the president’s job at the University of South Carolina.

The soldier became lost during an Expert Field Medical Badge competition and was last seen at about 9:45 p.m. Monday on foot at the fort’s Land Navigation Course.

Two soldiers have been awarded Silver Star medals for a July mission where they said they barely noticed the enemy gunfire peppering their Black Hawk helicopter in Afghanistan.

Soldiers with the Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment used “every weapon they have” to take out the simulated enemy forces at a live-fire exercise Tuesday.

The Army’s missile defense command in Europe is being upgraded to a one-star command after recently announced personnel changes go into effect later this year, the Army said.

Map Pesqueira, a freshman at the University of Texas at Austin, was awarded a three-year ROTC scholarship — but said he lost it after the school's military science department chair was unable to grandfather him into the program. Pesqueira said he is unable to complete his education due to the loss of the funds.

The Housing Environmental Health Response Registry aims to address housing health or safety concerns, but does not replace communication methods for residents requesting maintenance on their Army housing.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is asking the federal court to compel the Army to install or modify an existing treatment system to effectively prevent pollutants, including pesticides, from contaminating groundwater.

“Stipulations of fact” submitted by men linked to the death of Green Beret Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar in Mali on June 4, 2017, remove a veil of secrecy from a culture in which womanizing and heavy drinking were said to be commonplace despite alcohol restrictions and warnings about kidnappings and terrorist threats.