US Army News

While watching Friday's change of command, I remembered how much I enjoy listening to Army music, especially when played by Fort Benning's Maneuver Center of Excellence Band, which is, well, excellent.

US military research agency DARPA says it is homing in on its long-term ambition of producing self-guided bullets, after staging a test in which a sniper was able to shoot at a target at a radically wrong angle, and yet still hit it perfectly.

Last month within the mountainous terrain of The Great Salt Lake Desert at Dugway Proving Ground Utah, the U.S. Army conducted flight testing of an unmanned airborne electronic attack capability known as NERO, or the Networked Electronic Warfare Remotely Operated.

Lemuel Augustus Penn was murdered on July 11, 1964 in Madison County, Georgia. He died without knowing he would play an important role in the struggle for civil rights in the USA and particularly in the South.

Army Specialist James Muir is back home from Korea, but his reunion with his young family and son in Milton included a big element of surprise.

Cho Myung-ja ran away from home as a teenager to escape a father who beat her, finding her way to the red light district in a South Korean town that hosts a large U.S. Army garrison.

Canadians seem to be shocked that Canadian citizens are fighting for al-Qaeda and its more radical rival offshoot, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.

Bowe Bergdahl for five imprisoned Taliban leaders, letters released Thursday show.

ROBIN TRIMARCHI rtrimarchi@ledger-enquirer.com Maj. Gen. H.R. McMaster talks with the Ledger-Enquirer for the Sunday interview.

Reed Hastings, the lanky and goateed chief executive of Netflix, is on a mission: to turn his company into the Internet's first-ever television network.

Mark was born Nov. 28, 1991, at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

As the Army works on plans to downsize over the next five years, Fort George G. Meade is getting ready to add 4,000 servicemembers.

The top general at Forces Command has been nominated to be the next Army Vice Chief of Staff, according to information on the Senate Armed Services Committee website.

Federal officials plan to allow members of the media to tour a temporary shelter at Fort Sill that is being used to house more than 1,000 mostly teenage immigrants from Central America.

Civilian Aid to the Secretary of the Army Joe Fitzgerald is this week's guest on Leadership Perspectives.

Officials say remains found in Germany in 2012 have been positively identified as belonging to a WWII airman from Iowa who went missing more than 69 years ago.

This March 18, 2013 file photo shows Gen. John Campbell speaking at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

There's been plenty of instances where sci-fi on film has informed technology in real life.

Seaton Royal British Legion member Bill Beardsell, ex Royal Airforce Regiment, and his wife Jean were amongst a large crowd who attended a service at Windsor Gardens in June to honour the heroes of D-Day.

Put another way, has the $45 billion to $50 billion invested in purchasing some 25,000 MRAPs - mine-resistant, ambush-protected troop-carrying vehicles - been worth it? Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in speeches and in his book "Duty," pretty well set the public version of the story.