Armenians To Meet With Kansas National Guard Leaders
Posted: 8:31 AM Two top military officers from the republic of Armenia are in Kansas this week to meet with senior National Guard leaders in Topeka and observe training in Salina.
Posted: 8:31 AM Two top military officers from the republic of Armenia are in Kansas this week to meet with senior National Guard leaders in Topeka and observe training in Salina.
Updated: 4:21 PM Pvt. Thomas Lavrey died May 14 on the northeast Kansas post. Pvt. John Hughes has been charged with murder in Lavrey's death.
Posted: 1:30 PM Officials said Thursday that they're planning the first-ever event to recognize gay and lesbian troops.
Posted: 8:52 AM The 1st Infantry Division's Victory Week celebration is off and running at Fort Riley as the famed Army unit marks its 95th anniversary.
Posted: 1:46 PM Fort Riley has planned a special ceremony to honor the children of fallen soldiers.
Posted: 2:23 PM Suicides among active-duty U.S. troops are surging, averaging nearly one per day this year.
Posted: 2:19 PM The Department of Defense has announced four units, including two from Fort Campbell, that will deploy to Afghanistan this year.
Posted: 3:03 PM The Air Force Academy says up to 78 cadets cheated on an online calculus test by getting help from a website.
Posted: 10:12 AM With a growing demand for ways to treat the psychological damage of war, one Army pilot project is offering therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder by encouraging soldiers to take control of their own stories in a filmmaking class titled I Was There Media Workshop.
Posted: 8:33 AM The division was formed in 1917 during World War I when it arrived in Europe with Gen. John Pershing and was known as the First American Expeditionary Force.
Posted: 1:10 PM Hundreds of people lined a Johnson County highway to pay tribute to a soldier who was killed in Afghanistan last month.
Posted: 9:00 AM The Washington National Guard and Fairchild Air Force Base say two nursing mothers were wrong to be photographed in uniform breast-feeding their babies.
Updated: 3:51 PM Col. Edwin Ahl has served with the military since the 1960s.
Posted: 8:37 AM For-profit colleges and schools are actively recruiting military spouses who can get their tuition paid by the Pentagon.
Posted: 1:23 PM President Barack Obama calls it "the most wrenching decision" that he's had to make -- the decision to send troops into harm's way.
Posted: 1:11 PM A Pittsburg woman who survived a rare, malignant type of brain tumor is training to run a marathon to support military veterans.
Updated: 12:27 PM The remains of an Overland Park soldier who died in Afghanistan returned home on Memorial Day.
Updated: 4:11 PM The Department of Defense announced today the death of an Army soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Posted: 12:08 PM Two female Army Reserve officers have sued the U.S. Department of Defense and the Army in a bid to reverse military policies banning women from serving in combat roles.
Posted: 6:43 AM Marine Gen. Charles Krulak was inducted Thursday.
Posted: 8:10 PM The Wichita Eagle reports that Jeffery Klingsick was recently discharged from his home base of Camp Pendleton, Calif. He was driving home to Kansas when he and a Marine friend stopped Tuesday at the national park in Arizona.
Posted: 9:24 AM Lawmakers say a Pentagon agency and the contractor it hired to supply troops in Afghanistan with food and water are both to blame for a massive billing dispute that has heightened concerns over the use of American tax dollars in war zones.
Posted: 8:37 AM A member of the World War II Army unit memorialized in the book and HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers" has paid a visit to Fort Riley.
Posted: 11:39 AM President Barack Obama is telling graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy that they are the first class in nearly a decade to graduate into a world that has no Osama bin Laden, no war in Iraq and no questions about when the war in Afghanistan will end.
Posted: 1:33 PM The service last year took in no recruits with misconduct convictions or drug or alcohol issues.