Fort Jackson News

A day after a deadly rampage at an Army post in Texas, soldiers at Columbia's Fort Jackson held a moment of silence to remember the victims while offering mixed reactions to the shootings.

While there isn't a seaport for 100 miles, you could almost smell the salt air at Fort Jackson Friday morning.

Lisa Pfund was out shopping about 1:30 p.m. Thursday when she took a call from her daughter, Pfc.

The Navy is graduating 29 chaplains in the first such ceremony since a South Carolina Army post moved a training center from Rhode Island last year.

Military police at Columbia's Fort Jackson are stepping up security patrols after an Army officer opened fire at Fort Hood in Texas, killing 12 and wounding 31.

A 7th grade math teacher at Camden Middle School, Leon Kats, has died after his wife said tests came back positive for swine flu.

Reporting from San Diego - There are 136,707 military reservists and National Guard members on active duty, the Pentagon reported last week.

Army National Guard Pvt. Thomas B. Sager has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet ...

The Naval Chaplaincy School and Center will hold its first graduation of Navy chaplains at Fort Jackson on Friday at 9am.

Byron Dakota Speed, son of Larry and Bobbie Speed of Byron, has graduated from the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps Leader's Training Course at Fort Knox, Ky.

At 14 years old, she knew no better way to express what was coming. Day Zero was to be the day in October when Dad would leave their home in Watertown, Wis., for Army basic training in Fort Jackson, S.C. He was leaving, even though Mom was sick with ovarian cancer.

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Army Pfc. Ashley D. Bathrick has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. She is the daughter of Heather Bathrick, of Dresden, and a 2009 graduate of Tri-Valley High School.

The Army Reserve's top enlisted Soldier retires this month from an Army that's vastly different from the one he was drafted into almost 40 years ago.

Air National Guard Airman Errol McCalla graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

Army Pvt. Malcom-Jefrey C. Barril, a 2008 graduate of Juneau-Douglas High School, has graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Sill in Lawton, Okla.

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Army Pvt. Mark A. James has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, James studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ...

The Army's largest training installation is opening a new center in South Carolina that focuses on soldiers' spouses and families.

Bill Caudle was laid off from his job of 20 years in March. His wife, Michelle, is fighting ovarian cancer.

Army Pvt. Sevenn N. Clason has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. He is the son of Laurie Clason of Lebanon, Ore., and Sevenn Clason of Kaukauna.