Fort Carson News

Jeremy Bedolla and Cressida Widger were given a free wedding Saturday in Parker.

After once more displaying his frustration with the past legislative session as well as with the Army's decision to not give Fort Stewart a 5th brigade, Rep.

Friends and well-wishers carrying candles and waving flags lined the streets of Peshtigo Monday night to honor a 19-year-old soldier who died Sunday as a result of injuries he sustained in Afghanistan.

If there is anything that remains the same it is change as a constant. Fort Carson today, said farewell to Col.

A 19-year-old Fort Carson soldier died Sunday of injuries he suffered last week in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense announced today.

Army Specialist Cameron Briggs washes down a cocktail of prescription drugs every day for post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain injury he suffered when four roadside bombs rocked his Humvee in Iraq.

Jun. 26--In recent years, the military has invested millions of dollars in mental health care, fueling a proliferation of treatment programs while attempting to reshape fundamental attitudes about mental illness.

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A recent Denver Post letter to the editor maligned U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman as "a shill for the U.S. Army." The source of the letter-writer's ire was an entirely reasonable and balanced guest column written by Coffman on the dispute over the proposed expansion of Fort Carson's Pion Canyon Maneuver Site in southeastern Colorado.

It's a sweet Father's Day for dads in an Army Reserve battalion from Denver. About 75 soldiers are being welcomed home from Iraq Sunday night at Fort Carson.

It might be a long shot, but U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is working to bring more soldiers to Texas posts -- including Fort Bliss --from as far away as Colorado.

U.S. Rep. John Salazar called a truce in the fight over the expansion of the Army's Pion Canyon training facility Wednesday, saying that he no longer plans to push Congress to enact a permanent ban of the Army's effort.

Colorado congressman John Salazar says a House subcommittee has voted to continue a ban on spending Department of Defense money on expanding an Army training site in southeast Colorado.

A Fort Carson soldier was killed in a rollover accident on Fremont County Road 67, 10 miles north of Highway 50 early Saturday morning.

First Army Division West, the unit responsible for the post-mobilization training of Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers in the western United States, is moving its headquarters from Fort Carson to Fort Hood, Texas.

More claims of racial discrimination and threats on the job for some civilian workers at the Mountain Post.

Rows of green duffle bags were hoisted onto buses, malaria pills were accounted for, and about 300 soldiers cradling their guns were on their way to Afghanistan.

A solider who shot himself on West Cliff Drive recently had become unable to control the aggression he felt after serving two tours in Iraq, a friend said.

The Texas crowd will start rolling in next week. But they're just part of the green-clad phalanx flowing into Fort Carson this summer.

LOOKING FOR MURDER SUSPECT: This past Saturday, Ivory Mefford was fatally shot in the 1600 block of East 31st Avenue.