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A conceptual exterior illustration of the renovations 170 New Hammond Heights homes will receive as part of the $87.4 million development project underway at Fort Campbell, Ky.<br>Lendlease
A conceptual exterior illustration of the renovations 170 New Hammond Heights homes will receive as part of the $87.4 million development project underway at Fort Campbell, Ky.<br>Lendlease

Billion-dollar Army housing project begins next week at five bases

The money speeds up plans to upgrade family housing with a focus on junior enlisted and noncommissioned officer housing at Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Campbell and Fort Knox in Kentucky, Fort Drum in New York, and Army housing in Oahu, Hawaii.

A duplex on Villagio, U.S. Army Garrison Italy's on-base housing. Army-owned and -leased housing in Stuttgart, Germany and Italy ranked 23rd and 24th, respectively, out of 26 sites examined in a quality survey conducted in the U.S. and overseas, a report released June 22, 2020 says.<br>Nancy Montgomery/Stars and Stripes
A duplex on Villagio, U.S. Army Garrison Italy's on-base housing. Army-owned and -leased housing in Stuttgart, Germany and Italy ranked 23rd and 24th, respectively, out of 26 sites examined in a quality survey conducted in the U.S. and overseas, a report released June 22, 2020 says.<br>Nancy Montgomery/Stars and Stripes

Army housing survey shows slight increase in satisfaction from military families

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.

Homes are shown on May 7, 2020, at the South Post Family Housing area at Fort McCoy, Wis. <br>Scott T. Sturkol/U.S. Army
Homes are shown on May 7, 2020, at the South Post Family Housing area at Fort McCoy, Wis. <br>Scott T. Sturkol/U.S. Army

New bill protects service members with disabled family members from additional housing costs

A House bill introduced last week attempts to clarify that private companies leasing to military families on bases cannot charge for needed upgrades to meet a resident’s disability.

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New policy moves some Army sexual harassment investigations outside the chain of command

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.

Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, a Navy hospital corpsman who shot and wounded two fellow sailors before Fort Detrick security forces shot and killed him at the nearby Army base had been assigned to a medical research center in Maryland for nearly two years. Authorities said Woldesenbet and the two men he shot Tuesday, April 6, 2021, were all assigned to Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md.<br>City of Frederick, Md.
Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, a Navy hospital corpsman who shot and wounded two fellow sailors before Fort Detrick security forces shot and killed him at the nearby Army base had been assigned to a medical research center in Maryland for nearly two years. Authorities said Woldesenbet and the two men he shot Tuesday, April 6, 2021, were all assigned to Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md.<br>City of Frederick, Md.

One sailor shot near Fort Detrick released from hospital, one remains in critical condition

One of two sailors wounded Tuesday in a shooting near Fort Detrick, Md., has been released from a Baltimore hospital, though the other is still in critical condition, according to the Navy.

Fort Sill's Key Gate West.<br>U.S. Army
Fort Sill's Key Gate West.<br>U.S. Army

Fort Sill military instructors suspended after a soldier in training reports sexual assault

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.