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The commander of NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan said he is pleased with the progress in the country so far while acknowledging that much more needs to be done.

Two female Soldiers with Task Force 38, 3rd Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment, exemplified the "we can do it" motto of women's history month.

When Staff Sgt. Keith Allen, an instructor at Victory University, was selected to participate in the Master Resilience Training pilot program at the University of Pennsylvania in August, he was skeptical, at best.

A retired warrant officer received a Bronze Star last week for actions he took some 40 years earlier as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam.

Opening statements began Wednesday in the long-postponed court-martial case of United States v. Master Sgt. Timothy B. Hennis, his second trial in a decades-old murder case.

Soldiers at Fort Campbell, Ky., and Fort Carson, Colo., are now taking language courses that will better prepare them to meet the demands of operations in Afghanistan.

For the past two weeks, more than 700 U.S. Army Forces Command employees have been considering their options ahead of an April 1 deadline to decide if they want to move with their headquarters.

In a conference call from his headquarters in Northern Iraq March 11, Maj. Gen. Tony Cucolo, commanding general of Task Force Marne and U.S. Division-North, as well as the 3rd Infantry Division, told reporters that the number of troops in his area of responsibility will decrease from 22,000 to 8,600 by Sept. 1.

  NBC News reports on the Army’s efforts on digital marketing. The video piece focuses on the work the U.S. Army is doing to support social media, and includes interviews with LTG Freakley, LTC Brian Tribus and CPT Kirsten Rowe. There are also references to the Army’s social media channels, including Army Strong Stories.

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.