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Army space professionals celebrate National Space Day on May 2 to recognize how they live and work every day. Spc. Klay Walker and Spc. Alexander Best with the 4th Space Company, 1st Space Battalion, work on a Mobile Integrated Ground Suite at Fort Carson, Colorado. The 1st Space Brigade recently conducted an expeditionary maneuver of transportable systems across combatant command areas of responsibility, demonstrating to allies and partners the readiness of the brigade and its subordinate units to deploy rapidly around the globe. (U.S. Army Photo by Dottie White)
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The Army is adding a new enlisted MOS for space operations

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on May 2, 2025

Defenders from the 22nd Security Forces Squadron prepare for night operations during Lethal Defender Dec. 2, 2023, at Smoky Hill Air National Guard Range, Kansas. Lethal Defender is a weeklong training exercise designed to train defenders on all elements of the efficient setup and maintenance of expeditionary air bases. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class William Lunn)
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The Army saw a drop in sexual assault reports, while other services went up

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on May 1, 2025

Capt. Tyler Mitchiner and 1st Lt. George Madden, assigned to the 75th Ranger Regiment, compete as a team during the 2025 Best Sapper Competition at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., April 25, 2025. The competition challenges combat engineers to showcase tactical expertise, endurance and leadership under pressure. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Samuel Dreher
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Rangers take top spot at Best Sapper Competition for fourth Army-wide win this year

By Matt White

Posted on May 1, 2025

Issues with soldier meal plans sent some at Fort Johnson, Louisiana in search of other options when they were turned away from the base’s only open dining hall this weekend.
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A meal card foul-up at Fort Johnson underscores a bigger Army problem

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Apr 29, 2025

Kuwait Ping-Pong
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Army reverses course on banning fun and games for soldiers in Kuwait

By Jeff Schogol

Updated on Apr 28, 2025

A group of people in camouflage uniforms, holding rifles, march down the side of a paved road.
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Army trainee dies during basic combat training at Fort Jackson

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Apr 28, 2025

A sweating man in a bulky black and green bomb protection suit runs on a track.
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Army captain sets Guinness World Record for bomb suit run

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Apr 26, 2025

Army 3-D printed drones
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The Army wants to use 3D-printed drones to spot threats soldiers can’t see

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Apr 25, 2025

A new comic book will feature the story of Sgt. William Carney, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Civil War.
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New comic book tells tale of Civil War’s first Black Medal of Honor recipient

By Matt White

Posted on Apr 24, 2025

A government contractor in front of the Clear Creek access control point takes a step back to ensure the letters are aligned correctly in preparations for the redesignation as Fort Cavazos. (U.S. Army photo by Eric Franklin, Fort Hood Public Affairs)
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Army sergeant found guilty in spree of barracks break-ins, rapes and attempted murder

By Patty Nieberg

Updated on Apr 23, 2025

Spc. Tyler Biberston, a small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) operator assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas, pilots his RQ-11B Raven Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) from a roof top April 26, 2018, in Kazanlak, Bulgaria. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Jacob Banuelos / 22nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment) 
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Army looks at vibrating seats and ‘3D sound’ to keep drone operators on target

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Apr 23, 2025

Spc. Miguel-Angel Gonzalez, assigned to 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, works with Zach Albin, a strength conditioning coach with Holistic Health and Fitness for 4-31 IN, to discuss goodmorning form and strength skills during the Polar Bear Team Leader Academy on Fort Drum, New York, Aug. 27, 2024. H2F enhances Soldier performance and resilience by providing the tools and resources needed to maintain optimal health and readiness. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Alyssa Norton)
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Army cuts athletic trainers from fitness teams, with medics to take up slack

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Apr 22, 2025

Staff Sgt. Raycel Dasher, an infantryman assigned to A Company, Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, U.S. Army South performs the standing power throw during an Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) during the U.S. Army Futures Command Best Squad Competition at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., June 4, 2024. The ACFT was one of the various events during the week-long competition designed to assess the competitors’ technical and tactical proficiency, as well as their ability to work as a disciplined and cohesive team. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joshua Taeckens)
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End of the ‘yeet’: the standing power throw is out as new Army fitness test goes ‘sex-neutral’ for combat jobs

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Apr 21, 2025

Army Col. Sheyla Baez Ramirez suspended
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Fort McCoy garrison commander’s suspension ‘not related to misconduct’

By Jeff Schogol, Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Apr 21, 2025

A soldier in heavy camouflage holding a rifle crouches in a wooded and grassy area.
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Army announces latest unit rotations, including soldiers from Lithuania heading home

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Apr 19, 2025

Bradley Fighting Vehicle
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The Russians captured a US Bradley, and now they really want their own

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Apr 14, 2025

Two men in combat gear, each holding rifles, hug each other as the cross a finish line.
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75th Ranger Regiment wins 2025 Best Ranger Competition

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Apr 14, 2025

U.S. Army paratroopers, assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade, jump from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the 62nd Airlift Wing, departed from Aviano Air Base in Italy, over the Krivolak Drop zone, Negotino Military Training Area, North Macedonia, May 8, 2024, as a part the Swift Response 24. Swift Response 24 is a dynamic U.S. Army Europe & Africa led exercise focused on Allied airborne forces’ ability to quickly and effectively respond to crises as an interoperable, multi-national team. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army's Contingency Response Force in Europe, providing rapidly deployable forces to the United States European, African, and Central Command areas of responsibility. Forward deployed across Italy and Germany, the brigade routinely trains alongside NATO allies and partners to build partnerships and strengthen the alliance. (U.S. Army photo by Elena Baladelli)
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Leg day: Army cuts down on number of paid parachutists

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Apr 10, 2025

Staff Sgt. Troy S. Knutson-Collins, 28, of Battle Creek, Michigan, was one of four soldiers killed when an M88A2 sank in a Lithuanian swamp, the Army confirmed Tuesday.
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Fourth and final soldier identified from armored vehicle that sank in Lithuania swamp

By Matt White

Posted on Apr 2, 2025

A ladder truck from the Edinburgh, IN fire department reaches a paratrooper in a tree on Camp Atterbury.
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Firefighters help paratrooper finish jump after missing the ground

By Matt White

Posted on Apr 2, 2025

Bone Marrow soldier
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A soldier desperately needed a bone marrow transplant. Thousands volunteered as donors.

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Apr 1, 2025

Three soldiers who died in a training accident in Lithuania last week were identified Tuesday. Left to right: Sgt. Edvin Franco; Sgt. Jose Duenez, Jr.; Pfc. Dante Taitano.
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Army identifies three of four soldiers killed in Lithuania training accident

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Apr 1, 2025

The Army is removing resiliency training and leaving courses on occupational safety, law of war, combat lifesaving, and more up to commanders.
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Here is the training that the Army says is no longer mandatory

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Apr 1, 2025

Members of Commader, Task Force (CTF) 68 U.S. Navy dive team arrive on site to assess diving operations to recover four U.S. soldiers in a submerged M88 Hercules on a training site near Pabadre, Lithuania on March 29, 2025.
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All four missing US soldiers confirmed dead after massive recovery effort in Lithuanian bog

By Matt White

Updated on Apr 1, 2025

A soldier in full dress uniform stands in front of the american flag
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Green Beret killed in Niger awarded Silver Star after new footage emerges

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Mar 29, 2025

A U.S. Army Soldier reaches out to tap the Ranger Tab above Victory Pond before falling in the water during the Best Ranger Competition at Fort Moore, Ga., April 14, 2024. The David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger Competition is a two-man team competition where competitors push themselves mentally and physically over three days and two nights to earn the title of “Best Ranger”. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Eric Kestner)
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Ranger School’s new fitness test is tougher than ever, but nixes sit-ups

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Mar 27, 2025

U.S. Army Sgt. Matthew E. Delamater, from Portland, Tennessee with India Forward Support Company, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division based out of Fort Riley, Kansas conducts familiarization training on an M88A2 Heavy Equipment Recovery Combat Utility Lifting Extraction System with Soldiers of 1-16th Infantry Regiment at Mihail Koglaniceanu Air Base, Romania, March 16, 2019. The Soldiers are conducting the training in preparation for their upcoming missions with allied and partner nations as part of Atlantic Resolve. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. True Thao)
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Army locates Hercules vehicle that missing 3rd Infantry Division soldiers were in

By Matt White

Posted on Mar 26, 2025

2nd Lt. Leif Whalen, an engineer officer, fireman carry’s Sgt. 1st Class Lucas Bradfield, a platoon sergeant assigned to 299th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division during the most lethal teams competition, June 17, 2024, at Fort Carson, Colorado. Whalen and Bradfield conducted the stress fire, with the fireman's carry as the final event. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Jonathan Reyes)
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Army wants junior officers to fix quality-of-life issues that drive soldiers out

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Mar 25, 2025

Three versions of the Mariner Badge will be awarded to soldiers trained for watercraft operations.
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Here’s the origin of the Army’s ‘Red Wing’ design on the Mariner Badges

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Mar 24, 2025

Army ride-sharing
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The Army wants to make it easier to call Lyft and Uber on base

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Mar 24, 2025

Screenshot from the Army National Guard commercial "Uncommon is Calling."
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National Guard appeals to anti-corporate Gen Z in new commercial

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Mar 21, 2025

‘Saving Private Ryan’ didn’t make the Army’s list of most accurate movie portrayals
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‘Saving Private Ryan’ didn’t make the Army’s list of most accurate movie portrayals

By Jeff Schogol

Updated on Mar 20, 2025

Army Mariner and Mountaineering Badges
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Army reveals designs for Mountaineering and Mariner Badges

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Mar 19, 2025

A new Army manual lays out the ‘arctic determination’ at the heart of fighting in extreme cold
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A new Army manual lays out the ‘arctic determination’ at the heart of fighting in extreme cold

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Mar 19, 2025

Sgt. Adam Manibusan an infantryman assigned to 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division completes a 12-mile ruck march before testing on the final lane for the Expert Infantryman Badge at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii on April 30, 2021. After completing these events Manibusan was awarded the EIB. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Alan Brutus)
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The Army’s Master Combat Badges will be coming to soldiers this month

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Mar 17, 2025

A video captured a jumpmaster acting as the flight ‘safety’ grabbing a soldier whose static line had wrapped around his neck.
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A sharp-eyed Army jumpmaster stopped a potentially deadly accident, video shows

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Mar 17, 2025

Afghanistan attack
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‘The air was on fire’ — Army captain recalls 2012 battle in Afghanistan

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Mar 14, 2025

Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Juan Taiacardona dumps water on his head during the 2022 Best Squad Competition's 12-mile ruck march even at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, on May 17, 2022. Approximately 40 Soldiers from across the nation travelled to Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, to compete in the 2022 U.S. Best Squad Competition from May 14-21, 2022. The 2022 BSC is an annual competition that brings together the best Soldiers and squads from across the U.S. Army Reserve to earn the title of "Best Warrior" and "Best Squad" among their peers. Competitors are evaluated on their individual and collective ability to adapt to and overcome challenging scenarios and battle-focused events that test their technical and tactical abilities under stress and extreme fatigue. (Army Reserve photo by Sgt. David Barrette)
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The Army wants to get the load soldiers carry down to 55 pounds

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Mar 12, 2025

Border security
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Here are the latest military units deploying to the U.S.-Mexico border

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Mar 12, 2025

Students in the academic track of the U.S. Army’s Future Soldier Preparatory Course work on improving their math skills during a class at Fort Moore, Georgia. The academic track focuses on improving word knowledge, reading comprehension, arithmetic reasoning, and test-taking skills to help students improve their Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) scores and meet the Army’s enlistment standards. (U.S. Army photo by Toygar Ayla)
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Budget cuts force military recruit testing stations to close, reduce hours

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Mar 11, 2025

Killeen Fire
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More than 100 soldiers and families lost their belongings in fire near Fort Cavazos

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Mar 11, 2025

Army researchers are developing a device that uses artificial intelligence to guide the delivery of pain management drugs for battlefield casualties.
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Army researchers want AI to help soldiers deliver anesthetics in battle

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Mar 10, 2025

Computer hard disks, electronic scrap, collected
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Arrested soldier texted Chinese spy: ‘Do you know how risky this is?!?’

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Mar 7, 2025

Dana Klabenes, City Clerk & Treasurer of Neligh, Nebraska, points to Fred Benning, who served as the town's mayor from 1948 to 1952 and who will now be namesake for one of the Army's largest most storied bases, Fort Benning, Georgia.
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The Army didn’t have a photo of the ‘new’ Benning, so we found this one

By Matt White

Posted on Mar 6, 2025

An Alaska Army National Guard HH-60M Black Hawk helicopter assigned to Golf Company, 2-211th General Support Aviation Battalion, lands on an Alaska Railroad train car while supporting Special Operations Forces Arctic Medic 2025 (SOFAM 25) near Fairbanks, Alaska, Feb. 20, 2025. SOFAM 2025 is a Special Operations Command North training and validation event for unit medics that regularly conduct exercises and operations in the North American Arctic. Approximately 100 participants from SOF and Allied and Interagency partners trained to improve tactical and prolonged combat casualty care in austere conditions. SOFAM 2025 prepared medics to operate in cold to extreme cold weather and to provide safe medical care in austere conditions. (Alaska National Guard photo by Alejandro Peña)
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Soldiers in Alaska landed their Black Hawk on a train in a special ops exercise

By Matt White

Posted on Mar 6, 2025

Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael R. Weimer visits with Soldiers of Task Force Talon, Guam, Feb. 7, 2023. Talon is comprised of both Active Duty and Guard Soldiers from the 38th Air Defense Artillery and Guam National Guard, respectively, and operates the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system on Guam. (U.S. National Guard photo by Mark Scott)
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The Army’s top enlisted leader goes dark on social media

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Mar 6, 2025

Disabled Army veteran fired from the VA will attend Trump speech to Congress
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Disabled Army veteran fired from the VA will attend Trump speech to Congress

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Mar 4, 2025

Hal Moore and wife Julia Moore
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Hal and Julia Moore’s son ‘saddened’ and ‘angered’ over Fort Benning renaming

Jeff Schogol Jeff Schogol

Posted on Mar 4, 2025

Fort Benning
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Fort Moore renamed Benning, this time for a corporal who fought heroically in WWI

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Mar 3, 2025

Two soldiers face away from the camera, overlooking a foggy ground with barbed wire in the background.
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Stryker Brigade Combat Team, additional troops, ordered to southern border

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Mar 1, 2025

The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and U.S. Army Fort Campbell re-enlists 124 soldiers to continue to serve our country. Stay tuned for more event coverage this week! (Photos by SPC Harris, 101st Division Public Affairs Office)
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Veterans fired in federal layoffs say they were ‘stabbed in the back’

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 28, 2025

Capt. Jesse Guerin and Sgt. 1st Class Aaron Angulo were named the Army’s best medics of 2025 after winning a competition at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
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These are the Army’s best medics of 2025

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 27, 2025

Staff Sgt. Ulises Moore-Ramirez was deemed a deserter for nine years and sentenced this month for a range of crimes.
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Soldier on Army’s ‘most-wanted’ list for 9 years sentenced to prison

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 27, 2025

Schofield Barracks
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Army fixes barracks issue, after soldier turns to social media

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 26, 2025

Understaffing at soldier prep course led to ‘health risk’ for recruits, IG says
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Understaffing at soldier prep course led to ‘health risk’ for recruits, IG says

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 25, 2025

Soldiers attached to garrison headquarters units across the Army are swapping their Army Materiel Command patches for local unit shoulder insignia.
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Here’s why garrison soldiers across the Army are swapping their shoulder patches

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Feb 25, 2025

A Tuskegee Airman describes an air-to-air dogfight in 'Wings For This Man,' a 1945 Army-produced film on the unit narrated by Ronald Reagan.
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Ronald Reagan narrated a short film in 1945 about the Tuskegee Airmen

By Matt White

Updated on Feb 20, 2025

New York Air National Guard Senior Airman Caleb Lapinel left) checks the map with another Soldier will participating in the international course conducted annually by the Brazil Jungle Warfare Center, known as CIGS for its Portugese initials, as an instructor looks on. Lapinel was the only American in the class of ten.( Courtesy Photo)
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Welcome to the jungle: Meet the New York Guardsmen who took on Brazil’s infamous jungle warfare school

By Matt White

Posted on Feb 19, 2025

An Alaska Army National Guard CH-47F Chinook assigned to 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 211th Aviation Regiment, operates Feb. 2, 2025, at the Whitehorse airport, Yukon Territory, Canada. The Chinook crew supported the repair of a 210th Rescue Squadron HH-60G Pave Hawk that had rescued two victims of a Jan. 26 ultralight plane crash near Faro, Yukon Territory. (Photo courtesy of Simon Blakesley)
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Alaska rescue units had a hell of week: 3 planes, 2 countries and 1 stuck helicopter

By Matt White

Posted on Feb 13, 2025

Fort Bragg
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Hegseth indicates that Fort Bragg will not be the last base to be renamed

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 11, 2025

A side-by-side composite of two mugshots. On the left is a woman on the right is a bearded man.
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Two charged in murder case of 101st Airborne soldier

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Feb 8, 2025

Army Basic Combat Training
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Trump takes credit for Army recruiting surge, but it started a year ago

By Jeff Schogol

Updated on Feb 6, 2025

The Army's new gym for Special Forces students and other soldiers in special operations pipelines features 100 workout stations, 30,000 pounds of free weights and a digital shooting range.
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This new Army special ops fitness center is decked out like a pro sports gym

By Joshua Skovlund

Posted on Feb 4, 2025

Stolen Humvees
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Police arrest man for allegedly stealing 3 Humvees from Army Reserve Center

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 4, 2025