Army Planning Big Boost to Pacific Operations Next Year with More Training, Deployments and Equipment
The Army is seeking to better prepare itself for a potential conflict in the Pacific, with increased spending on regional training, deployments and equipment, according to its fiscal 2025 budget request. The service has requested a 200% increase in funding for Pacific training and employment, in addition to a massive $1.5 billion chunk of funding […]
Fort Carson Soldier’s Murder Unsolved Almost a Year Later
Family, friends and hundreds of strangers lined a Michigan highway last year to welcome home Fort Carson Spc. Braden Peltier, as he made his way from Detroit to West Branch, Mich., for the final time after he was fatally shot in Colorado Springs. Many residents gathered on overpasses with flags to honor the soldier. The […]
Catcalling, Racist Comments, Burnout: Alaska Troops Eyed as Prestigious Arctic Force Face Problems in First Year of Service
The Army redesignated its Alaska force as the 11th Airborne Division in the summer of 2022, with top brass hoping the rebranding would be part of a shift toward a prestigious fighting force — the so-called tip of the spear in the Pacific. But a year later, soldiers are reporting sexual harassment and a raft […]
A Year After Revolutionary War Soldiers from 1777 Were Found in a NJ Field, Questions Remain
It was one year ago Wednesday that officials announced a startling discovery at one of New Jersey’s Revolutionary War battlefields. An archeological dig just outside Red Bank Battlefield Park in Gloucester County, aimed at mapping a wartime trench, had accidentally uncovered the skeletal remains of a dozen or more individuals in an unmarked mass grave lost to history for […]
The Trinity Test Site Is Open One More Time This Year. You Might Not Get In.
The Army said the only day for tourists to visit the Trinity nuclear test site in New Mexico this year could be packed amid the massive popularity of the blockbuster movie “Oppenheimer.” White Sands Missile Range, where the U.S. detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon known as “the Gadget” on July 16, 1945, as part […]
All Alaska Troops Get a Free Round Trip Home Each Year Under New Policy
Troops in Alaska can now fly home once a year, and the military will pick up the tab. The Army’s 11th Airborne Division is pioneering a new policy aimed at helping soldiers get home to see family at least once annually. The policy, which compensates soldiers for the price of a ticket home, applies to […]
Nearly 1 in 3 Female Recruits Were Injured in Army Basic Training Last Year
Women are at least twice as likely as men to be injured in Army basic training, according to data collected over six years by the service. Most of those injuries were musculoskeletal — meaning they affect the bones, muscles, joints and tendons of female recruits. Military.com obtained the injury data as the Army is looking […]
Absences, Illnesses and Perseverance: Here Are the Military Child of the Year Honorees
They’ve endured frequent moves, long separations from one — or both — parents, had their lives upended by a global pandemic and, in at least two cases, battled potentially life-threatening illnesses. Yet during a trip to Washington, D.C., last week to be honored as Operation Homefront’s Military Child of the Year, seven young military dependents […]
Army Expects to Miss Its Recruiting Goal Again This Year
The Army does not expect to hit its ambitious recruiting goal of 65,000 new soldiers this year as the pool of young Americans eligible to serve continues to shrink. “We are not going to make that goal,” Army Secretary Christine Wormuth told lawmakers at a congressional hearing Tuesday. “We are doing everything we can to […]