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Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey Jr. visited Fort Campbell Soldiers and facilities Friday and spent the day meeting with division and installation leadership to discuss deployment preparedness and Fort Campbell family-based programs.

Although he stopped short of saying the worst is over for troops as they prepare to surge into some of the toughest Taliban-held areas, the top NATO and U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Thursday that conditions no longer are deteriorating.

Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh and Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr. announced today that the Army is taking steps to increase funding by $500 million for Base Operating Support in fiscal 2010. "We will continue to look for efficiencies and best practices, but the bottom line is we will not shortchange our Soldiers and their Families," said McHugh. The Army's Installation Management Command will continue to work closely with each installation to ensure its essential base operating support needs are met. Additionally, the Army will conduct a comprehensive mid-year review of all installation BOS accounts to ensure installations can meet Army priorities. "The secretary and I remain committed to ensuring our soldiers and families get the support they need and we will continue to provide the resources to do that," Casey reiterated.

SCHWEINFURT, Germany - Two years ago, Spc. Jeffrey Jamaleldine was still recovering from a bullet wound to the face, wondering if he'd ever get back into the action of fighting.

Three U.S. Army Europe Soldiers died Feb. 3 when their UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed northeast of Mannheim, Germany.

The 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division will deploy to Afghanistan as part of the surge of American troops into that country, Defense Department officials said Tuesday.

A National Guard that has been vital to national defense for the past eight years will remain an operational force, according to the Department of Defense's 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review released earlier this week.

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Col. Frederick Lough, MD, a cardiac surgeon at George Washington University Hospital and long-time Army Reserve officer, asked to be called onto active duty to participate more fully in support of Soldiers. The segment shows him preparing to leave Washington DC for deployment to a combat hospital in western Afghanistan.

The U.S. Army is helping graduate students Luis Missura and Tom Tokarz pay for their medical and dental degrees at Nova Southeastern University through its Health Professions Scholarship Program, one of the most comprehensive scholarships available today. Tokarz and Missura both found the program attractive because it will enable them to serve their country and graduate debt-free.

Article contends the work the U.S. Army is doing in social media is "nothing short of amazing" when it comes to opening up dialogue with new and potential recruits, and that the U.S. Army has seen "tremendous momentum." A video interview of Major Mary Constantino at BlogWorld is embedded and the article concludes by offering readers four tips from the U.S. Army on executing a s

Col. Deborah McDonald, the first female director of admissions at the United States Military Academy at West Point, provides her point of view on life in the Army, the role of women at West Point and the Army’s education benefits.

Lt. Col. Mark Vande Hei was accepted into NASA's 2009 astronaut candidate class. The former Minneapolis resident discussed his career in the U.S. Army detachment at NASA and how he looks forward to future missions to space.

For 40 years, Col. Tim Kopra has worked and waited for his childhood dream to come true. Now the McCallum High School graduate gets to live it for three months this summer. Kopra, 46, will be on the space shuttle Endeavour on June 13 when it launches on a mission to the international space station. Once he arrives, he will spend the next three months with six other team members helping with repai

Tony Schumacher and the U.S. Army team won 15 of 24 national event titles in 2008 while winning a record-breaking fifth consecutive series championship. The pressure will be on in 2009 to duplicate this success without longtime crew chief Alan Johnson.