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The soldier who was photographed fighting the Taliban in his pink boxer shorts said Saturday he was glad to be back home in Texas after his yearlong deployment to Afghanistan - especially for the Fourth of July.Specialist Zachary Boyd said he initially thought he'd get in trouble after an Associated Press photo first transmitted in May showed him ...

Felix Adamo/ The Californian The funeral procession of Army Major Jason George heads downthe the final grade on Hwy 58 before turning off to Bakersfield National Cemetery where he would be laid to rest.

The charges against Michael R. "Mick" Wunder, 52, come a day after a developer pleaded guilty to charges that he gave money to a Junction City commissioner to influence the city's decision to award development contracts.

The Army has expanded its emergency notification system for the First Infantry Division and Fort Riley in Kansas, doubling the number of protected personnel at the fort to 10,000. The expansion includes the First Infantry Division and Irwin Army hospital, as well as the Fort Riley elementary schools on the base.

Fort Riley plays a vital role to both the United States Army as well as locally in the community.

Residents around Fort Riley can expect a busy time in the coming months as some soldiers return from Iraq, others head to combat and a key military mission winds down, the commanding general of the 1st Infantry Division said Friday.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - An Army veteran from Illinois bilked the U.S. government by faking paralysis after a car wreck to get disability benefits and avoid being deployed to Iraq, federal grand jurors allege in indicting the former soldier and his wife.

The Army said late Monday that Actus Lend Lease will redevelop lodging facilities.

The U.S. Army is privatizing temporary lodging facilities at 10 installations across the country this summer in a move it said will improve the quality of life for soldiers and their families.

The American flag represents the life of a soldier. Take time folding it. The flag represents the millions of people who have served under its colors.

The recession is hitting everywhere but not everywhere equally. CNN Money notes 13 cities post unemployment above 15% . There were 13 unlucky cities with unemployment rates topping 15% in April, and another 93 saw joblessness climb above 10%, according to a government report released Wednesday.

U.S. forces didn't start winning hearts and minds in Baghdad and beating back the insurgency until they embraced tactics that involved interacting with influential Iraqis in their shops and homes instead of working mainly through official Iraqi government channels, a senior Army officer said.Lt. Col.

The unit at Fort Leavenworth, which currently serves 20 soldiers, will be among those closed, and the unit at Fort Riley will be reduced to support 350 soldiers, down from 500.

The oldest division in the Army is about to celebrate another birthday. The 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley will mark its 92nd birthday on Thursday with period uniforms and vehicles dating from the Revolutionary War to the present.

A developer involved in two subdivisions outside Fort Riley has been charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and prosecutors allege he made payments to a Junction City commissioner.David Ray Freeman, 45, of Lawrence, faces a single count of conspiracy, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Topeka by U.S. Attorney Lanny Welch.The complaint ...

An AP analysis of economic data from around the country shows that economic pain in a county decreases as the percentage of government workers in its work force rises.

More than half of Military Transition Team Class 70 is made up of drill sergeants, all Reserve Soldiers from the 95th Division.

For most of this year, the Alabama Army National Guard's 203rd Military Police Battalion was planning to send 150 soldiers to Iraq, where the mission would be guarding enemy prisoners.

Covenant Films LLC was involved in the production of the film, entitled "Can We Talk?'' The Chapman-based independent production and distribution company says on its Web site that it was founded last year to produce family and Christian movies.

Fort Riley has been home for my family since April 2007. Although I am a southern girl at heart, I am accustomed to adapting to most anyplace there is an Army post.