Fort Rucker News

Seven people attending Freedom Fest at Fort Rucker Friday night received minor injuries after fireworks malfunctioned during the grand finale and shot off across the street into a parking lot.

Lieutenant Colonel Promotable Jay Macklin has served his county all over Europe and Asia but his roots and his home base remain in Macon.

Azar Salehi remembers her first Fourth of July celebration. Packed into a soccer stadium in Iran filled with American pilots, Azar and husband, Hossein, watched fireworks in 1973.

A new gym, a high tech game room and a sparkling pool are just a few amenities the new club on Fort Rucker has to offer.

During his time in office Governor Riley has stressed the importance of workforce training across the state in three major areas aviation, maritime and robotics.

FORT RUCKER, Ala. a ' Our nationa TMs 233rd birthday is rapidly approaching as the Fort Rucker community prepares for its annual Freedom Fest celebration and this year's event is in a brand new location.

Fort Rucker on Tuesday released the names of the crewmembers involved in a helicopter crash Monday in Geneva County.

This single-vendor, five-year contract--valued at about $110 million--will place an estimated 270 dentists and other dental ancillary providers at 10 Army facilities located in five states.

One person was killed Monday when a TH-67 helicopter on a training flight went down in a peanut filed near Highfalls Stage Field in Geneva County.

A civilian instructor from Geneva has been identified as the person who died in the crash of an Army helicopter on a training flight at Fort Rucker.

The man who died Monday in the Fort Rucker helicopter crash near Hartford on Monday is 55-year-old James Frederick Elliott, the Dothan Eagle has learned.

The U.S. Army says one of its helicopters has crashed while on a training flight in a rural area in Alabama, and officials at Fort Rucker say a crew member was killed and another was injured.

A military inquiry remains open more than three months after Army troops showed up on the streets of Samson in response to a mass killing that left 11 people dead.

Nearly half the guard force at Fort Rucker has changed over the past month after the post changed security contracts.

Hurricane season is here and while we may not have felt its affects just yet but those on Fort Rucker are getting ready if hits close to home.

The two Schofield Barracks pilots killed May 27 when their OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter crashed at Wheeler Army Airfield will be buried this week in their home states.

As Alabama's unemployment rate climbs near double digits and plant closings and layoffs dominate the news, one Wiregrass employer has been adding to its workforce for months and plans to continue hiring.

Craig Lewis had been gone so long that when he walked into the front office of Fluvanna County High School, the secretary gave him a quizzical look.

A six-member team from the Army's Combat Readiness/Safety Center at Fort Rucker in Alabama is on its way to Hawaii to investigate Wednesday's fatal helicopter crash at Wheeler Army Airfield, officials said yesterday.

If you live in Gainesville, there's a good chance you've seen George Bryant. The owner of a local State Farm agency, Bryant's likeness is on a California Street billboard.