Joint Task Force-Bravo’s medical unit, based at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, recently conducted a medical field investigation into the outbreak of leishmaniasis — a parasitic disease that has long plagued U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Vice President Mike Pence visited Fort Bragg soldiers Wednesday to thank them for their service to the country and to tout efforts in Washington, D.C., to support servicemembers.

Camp navajo first was set up as a logistics and transportation hub for men moving across the country during World War II, an Arizona official said, adding that there is no reason the camp could not provide a similar function to commercial companies today.

The Army took a step Wednesday toward returning a portion of Camp Darby to Italy as part of a Defense Department consolidation project expected to save the U.S. around $500 million annually.

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The viral videos show a soldier, who has not yet been publicly identified, dressed in fatigues and raging at a small group of women, one of whom tells him she was waiting on his parking spot at a mall in Georgia.

Maj. Gen. Steve Gilland, who took command from Maj. Gen. Scott McKean on Camp Humphreys, inherits the challenge of balancing the need to maintain readiness with diplomatic efforts to persuade the North to give up its nuclear weapons.

Col. Thomas Matelski is the new commander of a garrison that encompasses 15 installations from northern Honshu, the largest island of Japan, to Okinawa.

Ken Hardcastle, 31, has been arrested on suspicion of internet luring of a child and internet sexual exploitation of a child, according to Arapahoe County District Court records.

A third brigade tasked with training forces in countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan to provide better security in those nations was activated Tuesday during a ceremony at Fort Hood, Texas.

Vice President Mike Pence is expected to talk to about 500 Special Forces soldiers, support troops and their guests during his visit to the installation this week.

The G28 is a military version of the civilian semi-automatic MR308 competition rifle and would “give infantry and other close-combat units a better chance of penetrating enemy body armor.”

Walker Seldon took an unusual and arduous route to becoming a 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He failed courses and nearly flunked out of West Point. But he persevered.

This is the 48th Brigade's third overseas deployment since 2005, when its troops were called up to serve in Iraq.

A new command team for the 16th Military Police Brigade was welcomed Friday at Fort Bragg, as leaders reflected on executed missions during the past two years under the outgoing leaders.

Lt. Gen. Laura J. Richardson, already the Army's first female combat arms general officer, became its first woman to command the Army component of a larger, multiservice unit. "I'm the daughter of great parents who always told me I could do anything and never put the typical gender norms on me," she said.

The U.S. Army has agreed to pay an additional $1.2 million to cover the costs of a project to lower noise levels at a suburban Stuttgart firing range, where frustrated locals have long complained about the crackle of gunfire.

The Army says a RQ-7 Shadow Tactical unmanned aircraft system operated by the 25th Infantry Division crashed at about 3:30 p.m. near an Army base in central Oahu.

Maj. Gen. Linda Singh served in enlisted and officer ranks for 36 years - the last four as adjutant general, responsible for the daily operations of the Maryland Military Department, which includes the Army National Guard, Air National Guard, Emergency Management Agency, and Defense Force.

“Alert! Mass Warning Notification System” is expected to streamline how personnel are alerted in the event of a crisis. It will replace the AtHoc system used by garrisons in Europe.

Army Command Sgt. Maj. Craig Bishop is now the command sergeant major for the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kan., a position that he has held since March 2018. He will replace Command Sgt. Maj. David Blake.

A man died this weekend in a rappelling accident at Stephen’s Gap, a cave featuring a 143-foot pit that was the site of another fatal fall in April.

America’s top diplomat in Ukraine said the U.S. is in the process of reviewing the request. While the West has offered various forms of support to Ukraine’s military since 2014, the U.S. only recently began providing lethal military gear.

A 19-year-old private based at Torii Station is accused of taking the safe from a business in the Uechi neighborhood of Okinawa City at about 4:15 a.m., police said.

The FAA announced Friday that the depot is one of 11 "national security sensitive locations" around the country where airspace will be closed to drones.

The Army is handing out bonuses up to $40,000 for people who join the infantry as the military’s largest branch works to meet its 2019 recruitment goal with only months left in the fiscal year.

Sunshine and strong winds bore down on family and soldiers gathered at Robert Gray Army Airfield on Friday as the remains of Sgt. James Gregory Johnston returned to Texas in preparation for his burial.

Sgt. Ronald L. Poland was killed in south Vietnam when Tina M. Hoffman was 3 years old. She didn't know he was her biological father until she was a teenager. Decades after his death, Hoffman, 52, finally has a piece of her dad.

The Army announced in December that it plans to spend more than $300 million for prototype light tanks. When it comes to naming a new light tank, the Army should take advantage of Trump’s faux pas. Sherman is a solid name with a deep history that has served the Army well.

Pvt. Readus L. Moore Jr., 23, was shopping for a car when he was fatally struck by a Jeep Liberty driven by an employee of a neighboring car lot, police said.

Every year around July Fourth, Fort Hood’s main entrance becomes a memorial for U.S. servicemembers who have died since Sept. 11, 2001. The boots honor servicemembers of all military branches, no matter the circumstances of their death.

Lt. Col. Diosabelle Buack took command of Camp Casey from outgoing commander Lt. Col. Brian Jacobs during a ceremony Tuesday.

Sgt. William Donelle Dillard is an Army sergeant stationed at Fort Bragg, assigned to Company B, 407th Brigade Support Battalion.

The soldier was catching some sun at about 2:15 p.m. Monday when a German railroad worker in the eastern town of Guben spotted the servicemember lying directly beneath electricity wires.

More than four months have passed since 7-month-old Abigail Lobisch died at an unlicensed day care in an Army-managed housing complex, but issues surrounding military families' use of so-called "black market" child care remain unresolved.

When a Taliban-trained gunman who had infiltrated the Afghan security forces opened fire during a meeting of top U.S. and Afghan security forces in Kandahar in the fall, six 4th Infantry Division soldiers sprang into action – killing the shooter and providing medical care.

The Montana Army National Guard is eyeing land near Billings Logan International Airport for a new helicopter maintenance facility.

The All American gate at Fort Bragg was closed for more than three hours Monday when a man without valid identification tried to access the post.

The story of Fort Hood’s Hug Lady will live on through a plaque at the base’s Robert Gray Army Airfield commemorating her dedication to soldiers. Elizabeth Laird, commonly referred to by soldiers at the base as the “Hug Lady,” attended every flight in and out of the central Texas base for 12 years just to hug them.

Rick’s Place is a 50-acre retreat in Fayetteville, N.C., that provides recreational space and activities for military families and servicemembers. It is named for Rick Herrema, a U.S. Army Special Operations Command soldier who was killed in Iraq in 2006.

Six women gather each Tuesday to make greeting cards for the son of one member of the group and the 515 other soldiers who serve under him in Camp Dahlke in Afghanistan.

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Sgt. James G. Johnston was one of two servicemembers killed on June 25 by small-arms fire while engaged in combat in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan.

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Troops with the 82nd Airborne’s 3rd Brigade Combat team were issued Black Hornet Personal Reconnaissance System this spring and provided training on how to use the drones, which resemble miniature helicopters.

Army Maj. Matthew Golsteyn has long admitted the killing in interviews with media and Army investigators, identifying the victim as a Taliban bombmaker responsible for the deaths of two Marines.

When in Kazakhstan, do as the Kazakhs do, the paraphrased old saying goes. And a big part of that, as soldiers taking part in the U.S.-led Steppe Eagle exercise here discovered, includes drinking horse milk.

Ronald Shurer II, a member of the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group and Medal of Honor recipient, was surrounded by former teammates, friends, family and soldiers Thursday at Fort Bragg as green fabric dropped to unveil Shurer Hall.

Entrepreneur Andrew Chang on Thursday said that when he was a soldier years ago at Fort Bragg, he never set foot in downtown Fayetteville. Eastern Foundry is opening a coworking space and federal contractor consulting service in September.

Christopher C. Palumbo, a Black Hawk helicopter pilot, received the Distinguished Service Cross Award on Thursday for his actions during a battle in Afghanistan on April 11, 2005. The award is the Army's second highest for valor.

Commanding the 173rd Airborne Brigade, said Col. James Bartholomees, had been the best job of his career. “The autonomy, the mission, the focus. This is the pinnacle,” he said. “I feel like I won the lottery with this job.”

There is potentially good news for the Army in Europe: officials are looking at recent weather trends to see if policies that limit the use of air conditioning need to be modified.

Col. Michael Tremblay assumed command of Camp Humphreys on Thursday as the Army’s new home in South Korea faces the final push in its much-delayed expansion.

A 32-year-old Green Beret and a 24-year-old explosive ordnance disposal soldier were killed Tuesday in a close-quarters firefight with Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, Pentagon officials said.

The Department of Defense would choose Fort Drum in New York as the site of an East Coast missile defense site if it decides to build one in the future, according to a Pentagon official.

The family of River "Oakley" Nimmo, who died of neuroblastoma, had requested that members of the military go to his funeral in uniform.

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Several Steppe Eagle drills include gender as a factor. In one, villagers come to the gates of bases to report that they had been raped. Another tested whether soldiers could spot signs that a woman was the victim of human trafficking.

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Many of the men at the White House on Tuesday would not have been there if it were not for Staff Sgt. David Bellavia and his “exceptional courage to protect his men and defend our nation,” against an enemy “that would have killed them all had it not been for David,” President Donald Trump said.

The Army identified the soldier on Tuesday as Spc. Abinezer Gebeyehu of the 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment. He was stationed in Vilseck, about seven miles north of Hahnbach.

For David Bellavia, receiving the nation’s highest military honor will mean a career change, at least temporarily, and it will likely mean setting any political ambitions aside in the near future, he told Stars and Stripes on Monday.

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More than 7,000 mostly airborne soldiers from eight NATO nations “battled” through the Balkans in an exercise designed to test the U.S. Global Response Force. The nearly two-week exercise ended Tuesday.

Soldiers in the Kazakh Ground Forces peacekeeping battalion are using Steppe Eagle, which began last week and runs until Thursday, to prepare for an upcoming deployment to Lebanon. They're joined by soldiers from the U.S. and the U.K., as well as Tajikistan.

All of the paratroopers who were sent to the hospital were treated for dehydration and heat-related injuries and have since been released.

Maj. Mathew Golsteyn will be formally arraigned at Fort Bragg on Thursday. He is accused of killing an unarmed Afghan national in 2010.

Sen. Chuck Schumer said Friday that America's military families should not have to live in housing that is moldy or leaky. But some families at West Point and other military installations have faced those problems in their privatized housing units, he said.

When Teresa Dawley inhaled amniotic fluid during birth and stopped breathing, her family hoped for a miracle. Their prayers were answered in an unlikely way by the arrival of a military helicopter.

On many Wednesday and Thursday nights through July, the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment — "The Old Guard" — hosts the Twilight Tattoo, a tradition that the Military District of Washington began in 1961.

Ryan McCarthy served in the Army from 1997 to 2002, later spending time working as a staffer on Capitol Hill, at the Pentagon and as an executive at Lockheed Martin.

A Fort Bragg military spouse says housing issues she's had at the installation dating to May 2015 still persist.

Last week, Iraqi, U.S. and Italian officials celebrated the completion of a $530-million project to shore-up Iraq's largest dam. But while the work has stabilized the dam, construction flaws that have posed a threat since its completion in 1984 have yet to be permanently fixed, a research paper says.

Chief Carla Provost, who has led Border Patrol since August, said National Guard forces deployed mostly in Texas and Arizona have aided in some 94,000 apprehensions in fiscal year 2019 and active-duty troops operating mobile surveillance cameras have contributed to another 15,600 apprehensions.

U.S. troops participating in an air defense exercise with Romanian forces on Thursday fired a barrage of missiles over the Black Sea, including the first Patriot missiles to be launched over continental Europe.

A Canadian paratrooper was killed and three allied servicemembers, including two Americans, were injured during an Army-led training exercise in Bulgaria, officials said Thursday.

The death of Spc. Charles Michael Bodey follows the deaths of at least three other soldiers in their living quarters in Alaska in the past year.

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Soldiers with the Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment began the almost 1,000-mile tactical road march back to Germany Wednesday, hours after battling Romanian “enemies” in an exercise aimed at testing NATO forces’ readiness in the Balkans and Black Sea region.

Chief Petty Officer Adam C. Matthews faced a murder charge in the death of Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar and was wearing a Rambo costume at the time he approached Melgar's widow, according to military documents.

A local police official said the woman who was apprehended near the gate of Yongsan Garrison Wednesday claimed that she ran onto the base to escape somebody who was trying to kill her.

Col. John W. McDonald, took over Monday as the new commander at Tobyhanna Army Depot, the military installation that designs, builds and refurbishes military equipment and technology.

Some former students of bankrupt for-profit college ITT Educational Services got relief Friday when the Colorado Attorney General’s office announced a settlement that wiped out $1.6 million in loans.

Transgender Army Capt. Alivia Stehlik recently had to explain to her 7-year-old son why she spends so much time advocating for LGBTQ people in the military. “I got down on a knee and looked him in the eye and told him this: ‘Some people don’t think that people like me should exist."

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In between fighting, without leaving the steaming hot combat zone, troops are living “la dolce vita,” thanks to a piece of equipment the Italians took into battle: a portable espresso machine.

Brian Isaack Clyde, who authorities confirmed was the gunman, served in the Army for two years. Soldiers who served with him said he came from a family of military veterans and often participated in war re-enactments.

Army Spc. Marquise Gabriel Elliott, 25, was initially treated for injuries at the scene after the up-armored Humvee rolled over Friday. He was pronounced dead after he was airlifted to a hospital.

The reprieve followed a policy review ordered by Gen. Robert Abrams after he took command of U.S. Forces Korea in November.

What Confessor Bermudez Sr. thought would be an enlistment of a few years led to a 24-year career in the military, his son serving in the Army for 20 years and his grandson now serving in the military.

The Army's investigation was triggered by a March 6 incident that occurred as soldiers from the post's 2nd Brigade Combat Team attended a suicide prevention class.

Chris Meek, co-founder of a non-profit called SoldierStrong, recently met with a group of experts to discuss how Iowa State University's Virtual Reality Applications Center can help veterans deal with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Various U.S. military installations on Friday marked the Army's 244th birthday with celebratory events. President Donald Trump, whose birthday is on the same day, also tweeted a tribute to the Army.

A new command team took over the 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade in the morning as Commander Col. Mark Johnson passed the torch to Col. Michael McFadden. At Hunter Army Airfield, officials welcomed a new garrison commander as Lt. Col Kenneth Dwyer relinquished command to Lt. Col. David Escobar.

Soldiers outside the infantry, combat medic and Special Forces fields will soon have the opportunity to earn a badge acknowledging their experience at critical skills, the Army announced Friday on the service’s 244th birthday.

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A memorial Monday at an Alaska National Guard armory will celebrate a Special Forces veteran whose role in the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria was relatively unknown before he died in a climbing accident last month.

Lt. Col. Eric J. Schilling officially took over command of the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant on Thursday, a day before the U.S. Army's 244th anniversary, during a Change of Command ceremony. The ceremony is an important one for all military sectors as it honors the departing commander and marks the peaceful and orderly transition of authority and responsibility with the transfer of the unit colors.

The U.S. Army-led exercise is designed to test the Global Response Force, a primarily airborne-based command tasked to respond to unplanned threats at a moment’s notice.

Brig. Gen. Laura Yeager joined the Army with the same intentions as many — she needed money for college. Now, 33 years later, she will be the first woman to command an Army infantry division.

Army Maj. Gen. Michael D. Turello assumed command of U.S. military efforts in East Africa, where a proposal may shift the mission focus from multinational training and counterterrorism to a permanent presence that seeks to strengthen American influence on the continent.

Specialist Eric Jerrod Davis was wounded by return gunfire from a bystander during the incident and remains in critical condition, according to authorities.

A new urban training range located about 25 miles north of Baghdad at the Taji Military Complex has the capacity to train up to a battalion of Iraqi troops at a time in urban operations, the Australian and New Zealand-led Task Group Taji said in a statement Thursday.

On Tuesday, the agency announced it has chosen a military base as a temporary shelter: Fort Sill in Oklahoma, which was used during World War II as a Japanese internment camp. Before that, it was the longtime prison for Apache leader Geronimo.