An Army veteran who remembered getting free coffee and doughnuts from the Salvation Army decades ago gave a $10,000 check to a dumbfounded bell-ringer.
The Pentagon will send six new combat brigades to bases in Texas, Georgia, and Colorado in the coming years as part of an extensive plan to increase the size of the Army.
Two U.S. soldiers who died in Iraq in February were killed by friendly fire, according to a military investigation that blamed poor training and planning.
The number of British army soldiers testing positive for illegal drugs has increased sharply, according to research published Friday.
The Army has taken the unusual step of recanting the testimony of a senior officer who contradicted a Senate committee examining an Iraq war contract, but stopped short of admitting it improperly paid $99 million to the defense contractor handling the work.
A milestone afternoon for Navy ended with the sweetest accomplishment of all: an unprecedented sixth straight win over Army.
Gen. Michel Suleiman has seen many crises in his nine years as the chief of Lebanon's military. He fought Islamic militants, calmed sectarian violence and deployed his army in Hezbollah strongholds along the Israeli border for the first time in decades.
A civilian contractor is accused of bribing a U.S. Army official in Kuwait to win millions of dollars in business with the military, according to a federal indictment disclosed Tuesday.
Pakistan's army has led the country for more than half of its 60-year history and dominated — or ended — the fragile rule of the few civilian governments to take office.
Separated by Army deployments for nearly half of their 13-year marriage, Nancy and Sherwood Smith were eager to reconnect — especially after his tour in Iraq last year.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday the Pentagon will act on recommendations from a panel that said the Army needs 2,000 more military and civilian workers to better manage contracts after years of waste, fraud and abuse.
The Army began its recruiting year Oct. 1 with fewer signed up for basic training than in any year since it became an all-volunteer service in 1973, a top general said Wednesday.
The U.S. Army's top general pledged Friday to improve the quality of life for soldiers and their families at its posts around the world, a program spurred by the strains of extended deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Army Capt. Matthew Foster, like many officers, was not thrilled to hear he had been assigned to a training team destined for Iraq to work with the national police.
Army captains who represent the military's future pelted the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with blunt questions Tuesday about the strain of long war deployments.
Five of the seven Army National Guard brigades alerted Friday for likely deployments to Iraq in 2008 and 2009 did combat tours there earlier in the war, Army officials said.
The Army is adding a week to basic training, not to teach additional skills but to help recruits better master what they're already learning.
The U.S. Army will continue to rely on an unpopular program that forces some soldiers to stay on beyond their retirement or re-enlistment dates, despite repeated pressure from Defense Secretary Robert Gates to reduce and eventually eliminate the practice.
Many of the actors in this traveling troupe don't need a script to learn their roles.
The U.S. Army of the future will need to concentrate more on training foreign militaries, mastering other languages and customs, and honing its ability to fight smaller forces of insurgents, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday.
Top Army leaders said Tuesday they plan to add 74,000 soldiers to the Army by 2010, two years sooner than originally planned, in order to relieve the strain on forces already stretched by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Ninety-nine U.S. soldiers killed themselves last year, the highest rate of suicide in the Army in 26 years, a new report says.
Need a down-payment for your home? Seed money to start a business? The Army wants to help — if you're willing to join up. Despite spending nearly $1 billion last year on recruiting bonuses and ads, Army leaders say an even bolder approach is needed to fill wartime ranks.
A soldier convicted for his role in the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager was sentenced to 110 years in prison, the longest of four soldiers found guilty in the case.