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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.
We've been astounded these last few days at the hundreds of e-mails that have poured in to our inboxes from Americans who want to endorse Ron Paul for president. Nothing has been more touching than the dozens of e-mails we've received from veterans and military personnel wanting …
This was waiting to happen, the current situation in Pakistan has taken it to the brink of destruction,The responsibility of the assassination can be laid squarely on the shoulders of Musharraf, the inner ring of security was breached in an earlier attack on Benazir Bhutto and n …
Banazir Bhutto is dead. The late Pakistani politician and secular reformer was shot through the neck and chest by a suicide bomber who then detonated his explosives, killing some 20 bystanders.
A new Army-wide program is meant to help family members keep soldiers from making fatal mistakes after they come home from Iraq and Afghanistan, according to leaders at the U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center in Alabama.
They long to see him walk through the door of his family's home in Vienna -- muscular, dark-eyed, big-hearted Jonathan. The combat medic. The oldest son.
Given Apple's marketing toward the young and the trendy, you wouldn't expect the U.S. Army to be much of a customer. Lieutenant Colonel C.J. Wallington is hoping hackers won't expect it either.
SANFORD, N.C. - Pfc. Jason Scheuerman nailed a suicide note to his barracks closet in Iraq, stepped inside and shot himself. "Maybe finaly I can get some peace," said the 20-year-old, misspelling "finally" but writing in a neat hand.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Pentagon said Wednesday it has ordered more than 3,100 new mine-resistant armored vehicles worth some 2.6 billion dollars, with the aim of eventually owning a fleet of more than 15,000.
WASHINGTON — President Bush has approved what officials are describing as the most significant reorganization of American ground forces since World War II, signing off on a plan that will keep more troops than previously envisioned in Europe and add large numbers of soldiers to …
Former Stars and Stripes reporter, Andrew Tilghman , writes a story illustrating the crisis facing the military due to a worsening shortage of junior officers.
Gang membership among military personnel for the first time would be specifically forbidden under language outlined in the 2008 Defense authorization bill.
I haven't wrote an article in a little while. Not because I'm lazy, I try to at least comment and seed everyday, but I haven't had any good ideas. I know that it doesn't really have to be a Nobel prize winning article to be posted.
Hundreds of thousands of exam copies used, Globe probe finds By Bryan Bender and Kevin Baron
Allan Berube, a pioneering gay historian who chronicled the contributions and tribulations of gays and lesbians in the U.S. military during World War II, died Tuesday at a hospital near his home in Liberty, N.Y. He was 61.
n the battlefield, men are explicitly encouraged to kill each other; the crime of murder is turned into an act of heroism. And yet, even in such violent situations, soldiers often struggle to get past their moral instincts. During World War II, for example, U.S.
The Army is dismissing the equivalent of almost a battalion of soldiers every year for taking drugs, a report says. The Royal United Services Institute said the number of positive tests for illegal drugs, like ecstasy and heroin, rose from 517 in 2003 to 769 last year.
Samuel Snow thought when he got a check from the Pentagon that the Army was finally ready to give him the apology and the compensation he'd been denied for 63 years. He was wrong. The Army imprisoned Snow in 1944 for a crime he says he couldn't have committed.
Sgts. First Class Budge and Boe are headed to Iraq. Budge and Boe don't have last names: They're dogs. But the pups are now officially enlisted as the Army's first therapy dogs for soldiers in combat.
Now understandably you were given a "Tough" trip, because you could not get the time to get your footage up-loaded back to the uk in time to show Gordon Brown and his visit to our Troops.
Panelists describe U.S. military energy research and development. Initiatives include energy efficiency, fuel cells, electric ships, synthetic fuels, and vehicles with improved fuel efficiency.
TOP army officers have expressed bitterness over the miserable state their colleague Col. Benon Poteli Kivuna, died in.Led by the former army commander Maj. Gen.
Here's a classic story of heartless misplacement of risk. A soldier in combat suffers debilitating wounds and is mustered out of the armed forces early. So what does the Pentagon do?
This session, featuring Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD); David Brown, Exelon Corporation; and Col. Paul Roege, U.S.
...At 83, Betty Jean Jennings Bartik -- a devoted bridge player and grandmother of five -- had a secret past that was invisible to many who knew her.
Code of Honor
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