Fort Knox News

Brig. Gen. Peggy C. Combs has become the first woman to take command over Fort Knox and U.S. Army Cadet Command.

By SHARON VANDERHOOF Knox Hills Marketing and Communications Manager Knox Hills, a Lend Lease privatized military housing community located on Fort Knox, announced Feb. 26 that seven of its neighborhoods have been made available to rent to all branches of the military, including active duty and Reserve, Department of Defense employees, military and ... (more)

By MAUREEN ROSE Gold Standard Acting Editor maureen.a.rose2.civ@mail.mil Maj. Gen. Jeff Smith, the commander of U.S. Army Cadet Command and Fort Knox, will pass the flag to Brig.

With a combat brigade departing as part of military base realignment, Fort Knox will shutter four schools for the coming year as enrollment at the institutions drops.

KNOX COMMUNITY. HALF OF IT'S SCHOOLS ARE CLOSING, AS THE MILITARY POST'S POPULATION IS CUT SIGNIFICANTLY.

Combs will be the first female commanding general of Fort Knox in the post's 96-year history.

The pizza delivery man who fed stars at the Oscars received a best tip award for a supporting player: $1,000 in cash handed over by ceremony host Ellen DeGeneres.

PEACHTREE CITY, GA Four Department of Defense Education Activity schools located at Fort Knox, Ky., will close at the end of School Year 2013-2014 due to a decrease in student enrollment resulting from the inactivation of the 3rd Combat Brigade, 1st Infantry Division .

A 100 year sentence for Bernard Harris of Jeffersonville. Authorities say the 45-year-old started molesting a family member when she was just 12 years old.

March 4, 2014 - Some would say it's a match made in heaven. A celebrated Army veteran who suffers from post traumatic stress disorder will be getting a new 'best friend.'

Western Kentucky University's Bowling Green campuses, including South Campus and Medical Center Health Sciences Complex, will remain closed Tuesday, March 4, 2014 to give facilities crews more time to clear ice and snow.

When Roosevelt Smith III twirled, do-si-doed and promenaded across the dance floor at AMVETS Post 9 in Schnitzelburg, it was not such an unusual sight in a building that houses regular community dance nights.

A photo framed and hanging on the wall displays a young man in uniform. The war is still ahead of the man in the picture, as evidenced by the innocent smile not yet stolen by the cruel reality of what would become World War II "I think I may have been 18," Harry Bare said of the photo hanging in his room at the Avondale assisted living center.

Three Humvees loaded with Navy SEALs from Virginia Beach motored along a remote gravel road on a spring night in Kentucky almost a year ago.

Specialist Ted Treece, who is based at Fort Knox, just returned from a nine-month deployment supporting Operation Freedom in Afghanistan.

A soldier from the U.S. Army's 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, carries his backpack following a homecoming ceremony at Fort Knox, Ky., on Feb. 27, 2014.

By MAUREEN ROSE Gold Standard Acting Editor maureen.a.rose2.civ@mail.mil "A high five would have been good enough," said retired 1st Sgt.

By LYNSIE DICKERSON Off Duty Editor lynsie.m.dickerson.ctr@mail.mil Fort Knox's 113th Army Band joined the Fort Knox High School band Feb. 18 for an afternoon of music and mentoring.

By LYNSIE DICKERSON Gold Standard Staff Writer lynsie.m.dickerson.ctr@mail.mil Jessica McKelvey's love of teaching has taken her across the world and across the county, and has now landed her the title of U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity Kentucky District Teacher of the Year.

Army Cadet Heather A. Barrows has graduated from the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps Leader's Training Course at Fort Knox, Ky.