Members of a Kansas National Guard aviation unit that flies Black Hawk helicopters are coming home from a yearlong deployment to Kuwait.

Lambka and Lopez were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division in Fort Riley, Kansas.

Senate Democrats have turned back a Republican effort to force defense contractors to send out notices of possible job layoffs four days before the election.

A military jury will hear evidence in the sentencing of an Air Force basic training instructor convicted as part of a wider sex scandal at a base in Texas.

KanSERVE will assist veterans in finding available jobs and training in Kansas using only their Military Occupational Specialty.

American military members who fought in the Iraq War are reacting to the increasing violence there since the U.S. military withdrawal in December.

The Army's vice chief of staff is taking the best practices he's found for mental and physical health services from Fort Riley and five other installations back to the Pentagon as he assesses the health of the force.

A Pentagon official says civilian employees in the Defense Department could receive notices of potential layoffs four days before the election if automatic military cuts aren't averted.

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is heading to Kansas to speak in Lawrence and attend a campaign fundraiser for a U.S. House member.

A judge says the Army psychiatrist charged in the fatal Fort Hood shooting rampage will be forcibly shaved if he doesn't remove his beard on his own.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says he "sure as hell" hopes that automatic, across-the-board cuts in military spending don't happen.

The federal government is redesigning a program that helps U.S. troops transition to civilian life after they leave the military.

The Department of Defense is allowing service members to march in uniform in a gay pride parade for the first time in U.S. history.

The head of a major defense contractor is warning that he might have to lay off 10,000 workers if Congress fails to agree on an alternative to automatic budget cuts.

A soldier from Kansas has died in Afghanistan.

The actor announced Monday that he'll donate at least $1 million to the USO in what is believed to be the largest single donation ever given to the troop morale-boosting organization.

A U.S. Consulate official in Dubai says an American vessel has fired on a boat off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, killing one person and injuring three.

A final U.S. government audit report on the $51 billion in taxpayer dollars spent on rebuilding Iraq after the invasion concludes that huge amounts probably were wasted

Of the 2.6 million service members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, it's estimated that up to 20 percent have symptoms of PTSD.

A detachment from the Kansas National Guard deploys soon for a year in Afghanistan where the soldiers will assist with medical air evacuations.

A new commander is taking over at two military prisons and a military police brigade at Fort Leavenworth.

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will speak July 26 at a forum on current affairs at the Dole Institute of Politics in Lawrence.

Nearly 47 years after their Air Force plane went down on a combat mission in Laos, six servicemembers who had previously been unaccounted for will be given a new resting place.

Tony Clark runs in ultramarathons across the nation, but right now, he's training for a race that heats things up a bit.

Pfc. Cody Moosman was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.