Fort Drum News

For the last eight years, lawmakers have loaded annual defense authorization bills with new pay and benefit initiatives to support troops and their families and to show the nation's appreciation.

Friday, June 26, 2009 at 6:07 p.m. The 174th is retiring its fleet of F-16s. The last flight will be in March of 2010.

A Fort Drum soldier was killed Monday in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense announced today.

When Army Secretary Pete Geren took the job two years ago, his major mission was to take care of the force.

Printer Friendly Version Reported by: WROC-TV Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009 @10:00am EST Flags on government buildings in New York will be flown at half staff Tuesday.

An Army National Guard officer is facing a hearing in upstate New york after he publicly announced he was gay to protest the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding homosexuals.

FORT DRUM, N.Y. - Fort Drum is putting on an air show and Mountainfest this weekend to welcome home the soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Trevor Loope might be be facing a court-marshal proceeding on July 1. Or maybe the proceeding will be delayed.

Gov. David Paterson has called for a rare Sunday session of New York's Senate after the fractured house again met separately.

Governor David Paterson has directed that flags on New York State government buildings be flown at half-staff on Tuesday, June 30, in honor of a Fort Drum soldier killed in Afghanistan on June 21, 2009.

Homeland Security drone patrolling Northern NY A monitor inside an operations trailer shows a close-up view of a boat skimming across the water on Lake Ontario.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Predator B drone like this one is now patrolling the U.S.-Canada border between the St.

A pickup driver and her passenger were lucky to escape injury when the truck took a tumble down an embankment, State Police say.

A Fort Drum soldier was killed Sunday in Afghanistan, the Pentagon announced Monday.

Madigan Army Medical Center will receive a new commander in August as the Army divides the duties of running the hospital and its regional command.

The following are charged with driving while intoxicated and related offenses: Kwang S. Anderson, 30, Fort Drum, faces additional charges of endangering the welfare of a child, failure to keep right and making an unsafe turn as a result of her arrest at 11:10 p.m. Saturday by Jefferson County sheriff's deputies on Route 12F in the town of ...

U.S. border officials are testing an unmanned surveillance aircraft on the U.S.-Canadian border along Lake Ontario and the St.

Doug Hoffman says the framers of the Constitution never envisioned career politicians, and he's not one.'I am not looking for a government pension.

A helicopter flies over the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Wednesday, June 10, 2009.

Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, will have a Fort Drum Region branch campus.