The Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment might retain an “enduring” presence in Eastern Europe even after the unit’s more than 4,500 soldiers withdraw from Germany, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday.

U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Earl W. Smith Jr., serving with the 80th Fighter Squadron in the Pacific Theater during World War II, was just 22 years old when he took off on the last flight of his life.

Capt. Clevy Muchette Nelson-Royster, 27, is the second person charged with murder in the death of Capt. Malcom X. Perry, 27, according to the El Paso, Texas, Police Department.

The Army is looking into a viral video showing a soldier drinking from an Ocean Spray juice bottle and lip-syncing the words of the Fleetwood Mac hit “Dreams” while on a daytime parachute jump.

The order keeps active-duty airmen assigned to the 673rd Wing from visiting bars, breweries, pubs and nightclubs.

An earlier attempt to field an official sports bra yielded an item that wasn’t suitable for all body types, the Army said in late 2018.

An investigation continued Sunday into the cause of an explosion in Harrisonburg, Va., that injured five, including three James Madison University students, near the finish line of a U.S. Army Ten-Mile race.

A new digital tool that the Army is providing its commanders this month will give them a one-stop dashboard with their soldiers’ detailed military and personal histories so they can better gauge issues that impact their unit’s combat readiness.

The Army plans to invest $2.8 billion into base housing over the next five years to build thousands of new homes and renovate existing units, the service said Thursday.

The former head of the New England chapter of the union representing U.S. Army civilian mechanics was indicted earlier this week over claims he embezzled nearly $39,000 in funds from the organization and used the money to cover gambling costs, authorities said.

The Army’s storied V Corps officially reactivated Friday during a ceremony at Fort Knox, Ky., and a small portion of the unit is already on the ground in Poland to take up a new mission.

An individual who flew into Haneda International Airport and initially tested negative for the coronavirus went into the mandatory, 14-day period of restricted movement and later tested positive, officials said.

Sgt. Cade Pendergraft died Sept. 19 after he fell into a ravine while hiking the popular Road of 52 Tunnels, a World War I mule trail carved into Monte Pasubio, a mountain about 30 miles northwest of Vicenza. He was 24.

In June, about 24,000 soldiers had their moves delayed due to the stop-movement restrictions.

The Army leaders did not provide a specific date when the new policy would be adopted. They also did not say if current cases of AWOL soldiers would be reviewed to determine if some might instead be designated missing.

The V Corps haven't been in an active status since 2013 in Wiesbaden, Germany.

A civilian nurse who previously worked at Fort Bliss, Texas, was arrested and charged with abusive sexual contact for inappropriately touching another person at the base hospital, according to federal court documents.

A sergeant based in Fort Jackson, S.C. and a sergeant 1st class out of Fort Carson, Colo. have been named the winners of two separate categories of the Army’s best warrior competition, which was held remotely this year to protect contestants against the coronavirus.

The Fort Stewart, Ga.-based 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, is the ninth rotational brigade to serve with U.S. Forces Korea since the system began in 2015.

The closure of Stuttgart High School, which is attended by about 800 students, came as the number of new infections in Germany rose by more than 6,600 Thursday.

Experts have said Army culture breeds belief that missing soldiers are malingerers or cowards, which makes finding them a low priority. But recent high-profile disappearances and deaths of soldiers have led Army officials to reexamine how that process works.

In this fast take episode of Military Matters, host Rod Rodriguez discusses feedback we've gotten after the QAnon episode, and explores possible characteristics about veterans and service members that make them so vulnerable to extremism. To uncover more, he talks again with journalist and military veteran Jack Murphy.

Edward C. Meyer, a four-star general who, as the Army chief of staff from 1979 to 1983, led an effort to restructure what he called a “hollow Army” in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, died Oct. 13 at his home in Arlington, Va. He was 91.

Capt. Malcolm X. Perry was driving at about 5:50 a.m. Sunday when a driver intentionally rammed Perry’s vehicle and left him for dead, according to a news release from El Paso city officials.

The Army’s top leaders are working to change training requirements, deployment timelines and training center rotations in an attempt to reduce the stress on soldiers and their families, according to a statement released Tuesday.

Army leaders on Tuesday said they have not issued any specific guidance or training for soldiers to prepare for possible civil unrest surrounding Election Day nor do they have any plans to deploy the National Guard to Washington D.C.

Army Chief of Staff Gen. James C. McConville said Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic is taking a toll on the mental health of soldiers and could be a factor in this year’s increase in suicides in the service.

A wildfire that began Sunday at Fort Carson, Colo., has spread to include about 670 acres of training area, but does not pose a threat to any people or structures at the base, according to base officials.

The range would be used for training of military personnel and weapons qualification. Trainees would come to the base from Massachusetts as well as surrounding states.

Army hockey coach Brian Rile asked his team to be responsible during the pandemic, and offered an opt out for any players who might have concerns on how the season would move forward. No player chose that route.

The Kaiserslautern area was raised to Germany’s second-highest health alert level last week after a sudden spike in coronavirus cases that some were pinning on members of the large U.S. military community, officials said.

Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Cal Cunningham repeatedly declined to answer questions about his personal scandal, including whether more women would come forward with claims of extramarital affairs.

Hunt Military Properties, the company that manages housing on Fort Lee, has finally begun the facelift on the base's oldest housing development.

Spc. Andrew Garcia said the Army helped get his “head straight” when he needed it most, and his sharp, symmetrical military painting projects have refined his artistic skills.

Helicopters that the 25th Infantry Division brought with them for a training rotation, as well as those belonging to Fort Polk’s 1st Battalion, 5th Aviation Regiment, were sent Fort Hood to ride out the storm.

As of Friday, the Army has had 18,213 soldiers infected with the coronavirus, the highest number of cases among the military services.

Pvt. Richard Halliday has been missing since July 24, a day after he last communicated with his parents, who live in Florida.

Army officials credited stronger-than-anticipated retention numbers and an adaptable recruiting force amid the pandemic with ensuring the service reached it Congress-mandated target of 485,383 active-duty soldiers by Sept. 30.

The Women in Military Service for America Memorial, at the gateway to Arlington National Cemetery, is regularly placed on lists of “hidden gems” within the nation’s capital — a perspective on the memorial that its leaders are trying to change.

Gen. Christopher G. Cavoli assumed command of the newly formed U.S. Army Europe and Africa on Oct. 1.

Two Army Reserve soldiers who appeared in uniform in a broadcast segment of the Democratic National Convention in August will not be disciplined for the breach in rules, but their supervisor will be, according to a news report.

An Army recruiter remembered rock ‘n’ roll icon Eddie Van Halen with a cover of a medley of classic guitar riffs and solos.

Col. Christopher H. Warner was suspended from his duties as commander of Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., after less than three months on the job, base officials confirmed Thursday.

Using 3D printers, the Army can now provide the military more than 12,300 nasal swabs a day to conduct coronavirus testing even when supply chains become scarce.

Several German health departments don’t include U.S. military personnel in case totals because they consider them nonresidents, since most aren’t required to register with local governments under the terms of the status of forces agreement.

Two positive coronavirus cases reported Thursday were the first to be contracted locally in South Korea in six months, the military said.

A five-day training pause that kicked off a trust-building initiative among soldiers at Fort Hood was so successful that leadership has decided to expand the efforts to other bases under the command of III Corps.

Presentations from Select Board members who had been briefed on the Massachusetts Army National Guard's proposed machine gun range on Camp Edwards have eased some of the board's concerns about the project.

New soldiers and recruits will not have to pass a fitness test to graduate from the Army’s enlisted, officer or warrant officer initial entrance training programs for at least the rest of Fiscal Year 2021, service officials said Tuesday.

The German Armed Forces are moving forward with a multiyear construction project to upgrade facilities at the U.S. Army’s Grafenwoehr Training Area in Bavaria.

An upcoming range project and how it is being split financially was finalized before the Pentagon announced it intends to move U.S. European and Africa commands, as well as several subordinate units, out of the Stuttgart area.

Goggles developed by the Army and a Seattle-based company show working dogs where to go using a simulated laser pointer.

Army Pfc. Fadel Tankoano was born in New York while his father worked as a counselor at the United Nations. However, his father's diplomatic immunity meant that, despite being born in the U.S. and having a U.S. passport, Tankoano was never given birthright citizenship.

Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., has asked Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to review a “gender-neutral” policy of issuing all West Point cadets unisex Army Combat Uniforms because it then forces women entering the academy to purchase better-fitting uniforms designed for female bodies.

Army football fans are going to have to wait at least a few more weeks before possibly getting the go-ahead to attend games at West Point, and the re-scheduling of one missing home game is still up in the air.

The family of U.S. Army Pvt. Richard Halliday has expanded its search for the missing Fort Bliss, Texas, soldier across the border into the Mexican city of Juárez.

The closures are due to a shift in focus away from counterinsurgency operations, the Army said, toward large-scale combat and “great power competition.”

Spc. Jordan Dorman was a machine gunner with the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division.

The lab, constructed inside a converted gym on the University of Texas at Austin, is part of a $50 million effort to further military-related research through a collaboration between university researchers and the Army.

The money spent on the Austin property is nearly the same amount that the Army allocated two years later to repair just under 1,000 homes at Fort Hood known to have a water intrusion problem.

Lt. Gen. Willard “Bill” Burleson III assumed command of the Eighth Army on Friday amid fears of renewed tensions as U.S.-led nuclear talks with North Korea have stalled.

Entitled Holistic Health and Fitness, FM-22 outlines coming changes to how the Army intends to use more holistic health approaches to help improve a soldier’s performance.

In this episode of Military Matters, host Rod Rodriguez explores QAnon, the far-right conspiracy theory that falsely claims President Donald Trump is fighting a shadowy cabal of Satanist pedophiles. To uncover more, he talks with QAnon Anonymous podcast co-host Travis View and with journalist and military veteran Jack Murphy.

Forty-five soldiers from the 3643rd Brigade Support Battalion are deploying for a year in support of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s mission along the Southwest border.

A need for the Interim Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense system, which will accompany brigade combat teams on operations, was identified several years ago, as Russia beefed up its aerial attack capabilities.

At Fort Irwin, before reopening after missing two rotations, officials had to answer a challenging question: How do you move 5,000 soldiers on and off the installation without spreading the coronavirus between rotational forces and the post’s own population of troops, family members and civilian workers?

Legislation to rename a Houston post office after slain Fort Hood soldier Spc. Vanessa Guillen was introduced in the House on Wednesday, the day that would have been the soldier’s 21st birthday.

Mold remediation was just one of the topics at the housing town hall last week. It was the first housing town hall for Garrison Commander Col. Chris Nyland. Housing remains a priority, Nyland said.

A 173rd Airborne Brigade soldier who died after falling down a ravine while hiking a World War I military trail near Vicenza, Italy, will be remembered by his unit in a memorial ceremony, the Army said Tuesday.

U.S. Army Garrison Japan will start dispensing flu shots at Camp Zama early next week, the commander of the U.S. Army Medical Department Activity Japan said at town hall Tuesday.

Across Fort Hood, troops are taking the week off from training to focus on trust-building, after the circumstances surrounding the recent deaths of several soldiers assigned to the base have caused commanders to rethink their approach to leadership.

The weak steel in the machine gun bipod assemblies and faulty head and collar joints caused the two-legged stands to fail when soldiers tried to use them, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark.

Up to $36,000 could be available to anyone with information regarding Pvt. Richard Halliday, a soldier missing from Fort Bliss since July 23.

The soldier said on her Facebook page that she had reported an incident of sexual assault by her commander, but received backlash after reporting the incident ranging from termination of her contract to being denied a sexual assault exam kit.

The fall deployments are part of regular rotations to the three locations, according the Army’s announcement Thursday.

Top leaders for each of the Defense Department’s military services are working to remove all personal identifying information from promotions packets, Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday.

An Army initiative to create a stronger, fitter fighting force has yielded a dramatic gender gap, raising questions about whether the service unintentionally might compound barriers for women trying to move up the ranks.

The conditions in the Sierra National Forest are a glimpse into how the military could be involved in firefighting in the future.

One family affiliated with U.S. Forces Korea actually won two $10,000 shopping sprees.

A U.S. soldier and a civilian cook who robbed a currency exchange near Camp Foster of nearly $65,000 decided not to appeal their sentences.

The end of the automatic AFN programming, which includes college and professional sports as well as popular stateside shows, comes after the Army in Europe decided earlier this year not to renew a contract for the service in Germany, officials said.

Project Convergence is the Army’s answer to learning to fight the conflict that top Pentagon officials have long feared could be their next major war — a high-end conflict stretching across land, air, space, sea and cyberspace.

More than half of U.S. military installations worldwide have lifted travel restrictions put in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, according to the Pentagon.

U.S. and other NATO forces are practicing how to fend off an attack in central Europe, bringing together B-52 bombers, fighters and missile defenses for a drill simulating a large-scale battle.

Residents of the Wright Dunbar neighborhood received a notice saying the U.S. Army would be conducting training on Tuesday between the hours of 2 p.m. and 2 a.m. that would include loud bangs and simulated weapons fire.

About 740 military troops serving on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in Texas and California returned to their home duty stations during the past month as demand for their work decreased, military officials announced Wednesday.

Spc. Jessica Tang made crutches into flutes after a severe injury during Army basic training. Here's why.

The Marauders were named for Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill, who led the Army unit as it fought behind Japanese lines in Burma during the war.

New information collected during the investigation into Pvt. Richard Halliday’s disappearance from Fort Bliss in July has led officials at the base to expand their search efforts and seek the public’s help in locating the soldier.

A bull moose wandered into a populated area of Fort Carson on Monday, passing a shoppette, a car wash and a Dunkin' Donuts before Colorado wildlife officials captured the 700-pound animal and moved it to its natural surroundings.

U.S. Forces Korea will release asymptomatic coronavirus patients after three weeks in isolation even if they continue to test positive, officials said Tuesday, citing research showing people are no longer contagious after 20 days.

This year’s Valiant Shield exercise, which concludes on Friday, involves about 11,000 personnel from the Navy, Air Force, Army and Marine Corps. Roughly 100 aircraft are involved in the U.S.-only exercise, which is intended to hone joint warfighting capabilities.

Baimadajie Angwang, a New York City Police Department officer and U.S. Army staff sergeant stationed at Fort Dix, has been charged with illegally acting as a foreign agent and making false statements for lying on official government forms about his contacts with China.

The sculpture will honor working dogs everywhere and feature a newly designed patch that military working dogs will carry on their vests.

While the lawmakers' visit to the Texas installation was initially prompted by a rash of recent high-profile soldier deaths, they said they also witnessed poor living conditions in barracks and base housing, as well as a culture of fear and low morale.