The body of Mason Heimer, a 22-year-old construction engineer who had been stationed in Alaska for eight months, was found in his car off base.

A National Guard soldier left his Charlotte home to help with Hurricane Florence recovery efforts on the coast — but he came home Friday to find his house ransacked, according to a GoFundMe page set up on his behalf.

Hundreds of Oklahoma National Guard soldiers are returning home after deploying to Afghanistan for almost one year.

Former Staff Sgt. Ronald J. Shurer II was originally awarded the Silver Star for his actions on April 6, 2008, while assigned to support Special Operations Task Force 33, but his award was upgraded to the nation's highest military honor upon review.

Magic Leap Inc. is pushing to land a contract with the U.S. Army to build augmented-reality devices for soldiers to use on combat missions, according to government documents and interviews with people familiar with the process.

A Fort Carson brigade will go from shoe leather to wheels in a shift that will add about 200 soldiers to the post.

The Army had hoped to enlist 76,500 recruits in 2018, a goal that was lowered from 80,000 in April after more soldiers than expected elected to remain in the service.

The U.S. Army has found a fix for a glitch in the M4 and M4A1 assault rifles that causes the weapons to unintentionally fire, officials said Friday.

The 2nd Infantry Division held its last Chuseok dinner Thursday in the northern city of Uijeongbu — a final night of thanks before the headquarters and its soldiers relocate 60 miles south to Camp Humphreys later this year.

Members of Company H1, West Point class of 1980, convene frequently to celebrate their bond.

Leading a group of officers known as the "Midnight Crew," Chicago police commander Jon Burge was alleged to have overseen the torture of more than 100 black suspects — suffocating, beating, burning and electrocuting them until they confessed to a crime.

The Army will convert two of its existing brigade combat teams to add firepower to the service as it prepares for a potential fight with the more advanced militaries of near-peer adversaries, service officials announced Thursday.

The U.S. Army on Wednesday demonstrated its newest armaments to representatives of 28 nations, including Russia and Afghanistan, as part of its obligation under an international arms control treaty.

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About 1,000 "sky soldiers" from the 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team and allied forces jumped out of U.S. and Italian C-130 aircraft behind a fictitious enemy’s lines during Saber Junction.

Six soldiers were climbing Smugglers Notch in Jeffersonville, Vermont, in March when the snow gave way. Five of the soldiers were hospitalized for their injuries.

Command Sgt. Maj. Timothy Bolyard was remembered in his hometown of Grafton, W.Va. Wednesday as a caring, friendly soldier who commanded respect from everyone he met.

Capt. Daniel Chamberlain Lehman's body was found early Saturday east of downtown Colorado Springs. He was an Army intelligence officer who graduated in 2012 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.

Surrounded by walls topped with concertina wire, the 13-acre base can be easy to miss, one of several sub-installations that belong to the larger Yongsan Garrison just a few miles away. But its history reflects the highs and lows of the U.S. presence in the South Korean capital.

As the city starts a long road to recovery from the deluge left by Tropical Storm Florence, teams of North Carolina National Guard and 101st Airborne Division soldiers are working with local first responders to keep the community together.

A military intelligence unit asked Army Reserve attorneys to scrutinize its completed security screening packets for admissions of potential crimes by immigrant recruits, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post.

In the water, Matthew Kinne swam out to the truck, but both cab doors were locked. Inside, the driver was on the phone with 911, but with the air bags deployed, he couldn't unlock the doors.

Members of a New York Army National Guard unit that traces its lineage to the "Harlem Hellfighters" of World War I fame are headed to Europe for centennial commemorative events this month.

The soldiers were taking part in the Slovak Shield exercise at Multinational Training Area Lest. An investigation is underway and no further information was available regarding the incident on Wednesday,

U.S. Army Europe’s revised policy to allow more flexible housing allowances for civilian employees could be on a collision course with a Department of the Army review that seeks to add more restrictions.

Poland has long lobbied for larger numbers of U.S. troops in its country, where American soldiers currently carry out missions on a rotational basis. President Donald Trump says he's now considering creating a more permanent American presence there. Polish President Andrzej Duda says he would like to name the base Fort Trump.

Two years after the most controversial sports protests in a generation began, Nate Boyer is frustrated because he feels their message and intent have been misinterpreted or intentionally hijacked.

A former Louisiana State Police cadet was arrested after he was accused of sending lewd photographs of a former U.S. Army worker to a general in a blackmail attempt, State Police said Monday.

Fort Bragg leaders received their first look at the devastation wrought by Tropical Storm Florence on Monday, flying over a stretch of North Carolina from Moore County to Lumberton and Elizabethtown.

The Pentagon has sent some 13,000 servicemembers to areas impacted by Hurricane Florence in North and South Carolina where they are charged with search and rescue and other operations as flooding worsened throughout the region Monday.

If confirmed, Gen. Robert Abrams would replace Gen. Vincent Brooks at the helm of some 28,500 American troops based in South Korea as well as the United Nations Command and the Combined Forces Command.

Starting late Friday and continuing as Tropical Storm Florence’s wind and rain continued to batter the region, soldiers have deployed across eastern North Carolina in response to the storm.

Sgt. Andrew Couvion, a 22-year-old Fort Carson soldier from Texas, is accused of uploading child pornography "using social media applications."

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A group of veterans, spouses and civilians based at U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach opened three beehives on Friday. The Ansbach beekeeping club is taking care of what they call the Bee Haus, which is home to as many as 30,000 bees.

Pfc. Naji Jarvis was on leave visiting family in the Virgin Islands when he was reported missing Aug. 27, police said.

A contingent from the New York Air and Army National Guard will be heading to Africa this weekend to participate in the continent's largest air show.

A Fort Bragg-based program handling pay and personnel actions for nearly 200,000 reservists began experiencing problems in 2014. The Army spent more than $2.5 million to remedy the damage.

Army Secretary Mark Esper has told reporters he wants to assess on the ground "how they're making sure that we have good quality control across all of the programs, and then what are they doing on the management side to make sure" there's no repeat of quality issues that have marred production of the new self-propelled howitzer.

An 8-ton marble monument to Guglielmo Marconi dedicated by American signal soldiers 45 years ago is to be hauled off base and handed over to local Italians for a planned museum.

The Army says soldiers from a 10th Mountain Division combat team will jump into the Black River Bay at Sackets Harbor on Friday morning.

Lt. Col. Tara Carr will compete against 24 other finalists in the Ms. Veteran America competition, which celebrates current and former female servicemembers' military service and history of advocacy, next month in Los Angeles.

First Lt. Connor Bednarzyk, a U.S. Army Ranger with the 75th Ranger Regiment, died Friday in a a tactical vehicle crash at Fort Benning.

The annual Orient Shield exercise involving U.S. and Japanese ground forces began Aug. 30, runs until Sept. 19, and includes training in Miyagi and Gunma prefectures.

In August, an investigation by Reuters revealed dangerously high lead levels at homes on several military installations. Fort Bragg officials are developing a plan to inspect homes believed to contain lead-based paint in seven of its neighborhoods.

Thunderous booms joined the crackle of machine guns echoing over the rolling Bavarian hills, as U.S. paratroopers shifted this week to the live-fire portion of Saber Junction, a multinational annual exercise aimed at demonstrating American commitment to its allies.

FEMA has begun staging supplies at Fort Bragg as Hurricane Florence barrels closer to the Carolina coast. And soldiers and airmen across the installation are working to mitigate damage to infrastructure and military equipment.

A servicemember based in Germany shares how he dealt with being the unwitting subject of a viral post.

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While his wartime exploits were notable, Atilano “Al” David didn’t let them define him. “He enjoyed life and he told me he was lucky to live in a country that allowed him to be whatever he wanted,” his close friend, Richard Luena, said.

Future visitors to the Staff Sgt. Donna Johnson Readiness Center will see her name and ask who she was, Brig. Gen. Allen Boyette said.

A Fort Bragg soldier is accused of raping a woman in November, according to arrest warrants in the Cumberland County Magistrate's Office.

Soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord and the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's 3rd Company, 1st Infantry Regiment practiced clearing buildings as part of the Pacific Pathways program.

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Sgt. Austin J. West works as a U.S. Army recruiter, but on Aug. 25, a rock band performing during the Huk Bassmaster Elite Series Tournament here recruited him for his guitar skills.

The 37th Brigade Engineer Battalion paid tribute to its WWII history with the first “Blood on the Water” competition during a week-long celebration of the battalion’s 100-year history, which begin in 1918 and includes service in World War I.

The death of Spc. Porfiro Gutierrez Jr., 24, is under investigation by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, an Army statement said.

The pilots of an Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the ocean off Kaena Point on an Aug. 15, 2017, night training flight, killing all five aboard, experienced “spatial disorientation” and hit the water with “tremendous force” nose down and banked to the right, according to an Army investigation.

The U.S. Army announced a plan Friday to add more firepower in Germany by creating new short-range air defense and rocket artillery units, in one of the largest troop boosts in Europe since the end of the Cold War.

Army Staff Sgt. Bryan McQueen has a minor brain injury following an attack in Afghanistan, but he will head home to his high school sweetheart wife and newborn son in a few days — a fate his mother said is an answer to her prayers.

The Federal Trade Commission has shut down several websites and issued a $12.1 million fine against a group of companies that illegally gathered personal information from prospective military enlistees, then sold it to marketing companies and for-profit colleges.

Barakat Ali Bashar — known as “Andy” to troops — sacrificed his life to save then-Staff Sgt. Jay McBride from a suicide bomber in 2007. Now McBride is trying to evacuate his rescuer's family from war-torn Iraqi Kurdistan.

Four buildings were locked down because of a "serious incident" at Fort Sill, according to the Provost Marshal's Office and Directorate of Emergency Services. A spokesman said a former employee was detained and his vehicle searched.

The soldier killed Tuesday in a motorcycle accident in Italy has been identified as Sgt. Nathan Teregeyo, 25, attached to the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne).

Nickolas Clarke never thought he would save people from drowning twice in his life, let alone in the same location. But while visiting the beach on Labor Day with his family, he and an airman jumped in the rough water to save a young boy.

The Pentagon has identified the soldier who died Tuesday from a noncombat injury at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, as Staff Sgt. Diobanjo S. Sanagustin, 32, from National City, Calif.

Command Sgt. Maj. Timothy Bolyard, who was killed in an apparent insider attack on Monday, had a calm demeanor and a gift for seeing what needed to be done in a difficult situation, fellow soldiers said.

A soldier with the 173rd Airborne Brigade was killed Tuesday when he apparently lost control of his motorcycle on the road to Asiago, military officials said.

The base will hold a “Come Meet Your Army” tour on Sept. 20 that allows the public a chance to see and experience how soldiers train at Fort Jackson, along with a look at the daily operations of the country’s largest military training installation.

A Fort Bragg soldier is accused of starving a dog to death and allowing a 6-year-old girl to live in squalid conditions, according to the Hoke County Sheriff's Office.

Command Sgt. Maj. Timothy A. Bolyard died of wounds sustained in the attack at at Camp Maiwand in Logar province.

Few today know about the grim accident — the worst in Grafenwoehr’s history — that took the lives of 16 soldiers serving on this base on Sept. 2, 1960.

If you were looking for Army Staff Sgt. Michael Brown on Friday, you needed to search 30 feet under water in the U.S. Space & Rocket Center's dive tank.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials will be at Fort Bragg, N.C., for the next month in an effort to recruit transitioning soldiers into one of the nation’s largest law enforcement agencies.

In the spring of 1967, Johnnie Ashe, a Marine counting down the days left of his time at war in Vietnam, realized that if he went home, his older brother, who had 15 months left in the Army, could be shipped off to Vietnam.

A 23-year-old woman has been indicted on murder charges in the death of her baby daughter while her husband was deployed and indicted in the 2015 death of her 4-month-old daughter from a previous relationship.

The commanding general of Fort Bragg and the 18th Airborne Corps said Wednesday that some soldiers were using loyalty to their fellow troops as an excuse to shield them from accusations of sexual assault and other crimes.

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Air cavalry soldiers teamed their Apache helicopter weapons systems with spotter drones to pinpoint targets, a first test for a 4th Combat Aviation Brigade unit that arrived in Europe last month.

Sgt. 1st Class Mario King rescued the man along a highway in Rockcastle County on Mother's Day. The truck had jackknifed, turned over and burst into flames when King entered the cabin and pulled the driver out.

More than 200 soldiers from the Fort Bragg-based unit will deploy in the coming weeks. The brigade’s soldiers will be spread across Afghanistan to lead intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations in support of coalition and Afghan forces.

The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command is investigating the disappearance of more than 60 protective masks, three radiation test sets and hundreds of rounds of ammunition from a storage cage at Ford Hood.

A plane flown by an Army National Guardsman and carrying his brother crashed shortly after takeoff on Friday.

Maj. Gen. Viet Xuan Luong, the former deputy commanding general for operations at Eighth Army in South Korea, will be responsible for 2,500 soldiers, civilians and family members throughout 16 installations in mainland Japan and Okinawa.

In another likely setback to progress toward a trial, the long-serving Army judge in the Sept. 11 case on Monday announced he will retire on Sept. 30 and assigned a Marine colonel who has been a military judge for three years to replace him, effective immediately.

The U.S. Army Parachute Team, the Golden Knights, posted on Facebook that 31-year-old Staff Sgt. Aliaksandr Bahrytsevich of North Carolina was among those killed after a plane crashed after takeoff in Eastern Europe.

The two officers said they have not been treated any differently than their male counterparts and hoped that would continue to be the case.

Domestic violence victims on Fort Bragg will soon be able to apply for protective orders without stepping foot off the installation.

Officials from Louisiana parishes are urging the Army Corps of Engineers to pay its share of the estimated cost of a levee project, which has risen from $550 million in 2007 to at least $10 billion after re-evaluations.

The ex-wife of a Special Forces soldier at Fort Bragg has filed a lawsuit that accuses him and his lover of posting embarrassing “revenge porn” photos of her online because he didn't like paying child support.

Futures Command hopes to help do that by working with technology companies, startups, academia and businesses of all sizes with ideas on how to modernize the Army and be prepared to fight forces of similar strength.

An investigative report last week by an international news agency has brought Congressional scrutiny on lead-based paint issues in older housing at military installations, specifically many of the older and historic homes Fort Benning used to house soldiers and their families.

Retired Gen. John N. Abrams, the former commanding general of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, died Monday. He was 71.

The lines at the Army’s Stuttgart vehicle registration office have become so long that one person recently pitched a tent in hopes of guaranteeing a position at the front the following day. Others have arrived as early as 4:30 a.m. to find 20 personnel already in line at the makeshift campsite.

The family of a former soldier who died in a motorcycle accident in Virginia is trying to raise enough money to give him a proper burial in his home state of Maine.

The clip that locks the ammo can into place had not been modified and it malfunctioned in air, dropping the can from the aircraft. The incident occurred May 17 at about 3:45 p.m. after the school day had ended and no one was injured.

Maj. Gen. Paul C. Hurley was fired as the commander of Fort Lee due to a “loss of confidence in his ability to effectively command.” It was not immediately clear Thursday what sparked the investigation into Hurley or what the general has been accused of doing.

Fifty years after the My Lai massacre, Capt. Aubrey Daniel — who won the sole conviction against U.S. soldiers involved — was recognized for his legacy to the Judge Advocate General corps.

More than 300 attendees, including senior Army leaders, international partners, defense industry experts and figures from across academia are attending the Modern Warfare Symposium and Expo, officials said.

The Army on Monday reinstated dozens of immigrant reservists who sought citizenship through military enlistment, reversing a decision that has affected more than a hundred foreign-born recruits.