Fort Drum News

Reductions to personnel in the Department of Defense's newest budget may spell cuts to the number of workers at the post.

QPK Design, a Syracuse-based architectural and engineering firm, has been awarded a contract worth up to $9.9 million from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the company confirmed today.

An Army sergeant who had been accused of secretly photographing and videotaping at least a dozen women at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point has pleaded guilty in a court-martial, officials said Friday.

As his unit prepares for missions ahead, the commander of the 10th Combat Aviation Brigade recounted his soldier's work in Afghanistan during their recently completed nine-month deployment.

New York will join the lobbying effort against a proposed cut of 20,000 soldiers in the Army National Guard as part of the 2015 defense budget.

The U.S. Army has awarded SRCTec of Cicero a $7.2 million contract to install ground-based "sense and avoid" radars at 10 Army bases, including Fort Drum, as part of a test involving unmanned drones.

In light of high divorce numbers in Jefferson County that some linked to the area's military population, post officials outlined the wide range of programs it offers married soldiers.

Senator Chuck Schumer says SRCTec, Syracuse-based, has won a $7.2 million dollar contract to produce new radar systems at Fort Drum and nine other Army test sites around the country.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced a plan yesterday to shrink the Army to pre-WWII levels.

Sharlot Hall Museum/Courtesy photos Milton B. Duffield, above, was appointed Territorial Marshal.

The Army's plan to award a 20-year contract to buy power from the ReEnergy Holdings biomass power plant on post is being greeted as a sign of stability for the region's forestry industry.

In any company town, people get worried when the major employer is planning layoffs.

The Army intends to award ReEnergy Holdings LLC the contract to supply the post up to 28 megawatts of power, according the office of U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y. The senator's office said the contract will be the largest renewable energy project taken on by the Army to date.

Jefferson County is home to some of the highest divorce rates per capita in New York, and some are connecting that figure to the military population of Fort Drum.

February 13, 2014 - Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has directed that flags on state government buildings be flown at half-staff on Friday, February 14, 2014 in honor of a Fort Drum soldier who died in Afghanistan on Monday, February 10. Army Private 1st Class Joshua A. Gray, died from a non-combat related incident at Bagram Airfield.

Military officials say the death of an eastern Kentucky soldier from a non-combat incident in Afghanistan is under investigation.

A 21-year-old Army soldier from Fort Drum died in Afghanistan on Monday in a non-combat related incident, the Pentagon said today.

A Fort Drum soldier, Pfc. Joshua A. Gray, died Monday in a non-combat-related incident at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.

A potential change in the housing allowances of military personnel and their families could mean more out-of-pocket expenses.

Wando High grad Shannon Cantwell and her boyfriend, Lt. Chuck Nadd, wave to the crowd during a tickertape parade in Nadd's hometown, Winter Park, Fla.