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You are here >> Home >> Defense & Security News >> Defense & Security News - By US Department of Defense on November 9, 2009 at 1:12 am Loading ... FORT IRWIN, Ca: When the National Training Center opened here in 1981, it presented the most realistic training environment imaginable to prepare troops for a potential large-scale, tank-on-tank ...

The Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people and injured over 30 more after opening fire at Fort Hood, Texas, Thursday studied in the past at Barstow Community College and was living at Fort Irwin.

More than a dozen wild mustangs and burros rounded up on public lands in the deserts of California and Nevada will be up for adoption this weekend in Redlands.

By David Danelski The Press-Enterprise The U.S. Army, joining the push to turn Mojave Desert sunshine into electricity, plans to blanket as much as 21 square miles at Fort Irwin with solar mirrors and panels.

FORT IRWIN Most soldiers at Fort Irwin have tried or at least heard of regional barbecue styles like Texas or Memphis barbecue - but California barbecue? On Tuesday, hundreds of fort soldiers got their first taste of what David Biber, owner of Two Guys Grilling, has officially dubbed "California Q." Biber's team and volunteer soldier cooks fired up ...

Lt. Col. John "Red" Walker, the 549th Combat Training Squadron's commander, poses in an F-16 fighter jet at Nellis Air Force Base.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Cpt. Karl Gregory was among four soldiers from Fort Irwin who flew to the nation's capitol to honor a group of veterans who fought valiantly during the Vietnam War.

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The Army signed a memorandum of agreement Oct. 15, for an enhanced-use lease to begin development of a 500-megawatt solar power plant at Fort Irwin, Calif.

At a White House ceremony on Tuesday morning, President Obama will present the nation's highest award for a military unit, the Presidential Unit Citation , to members of Alpha Troop, the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, for heroism in Vietnam nearly 40 years ago.

LOS ANGELES, USA: The U.S. military is tackling a new mission in the field of alternative energy, moving to power up a 500-megawatt solar facility at Fort Irwin's sprawling desert complex in California.

The Tidal Sun pilot program trained servicemembers to work as part of counter-IED teams to gather information and evidence from improvised explosive device event sites -- locations where IEDs have exploded or were discovered -- and then send that information to higher headquarters for further analysis.

Previously announced as having 500 megawatts in capacity, the Fort Irwin solar facility may end up double that size.

An Ontario man who died Sunday after crashing his motorcycle was also a father of four and a soldier stationed at Fort Irwin.

The final stop American soldiers make before being deployed to the Middle East is a top-secret, billion-dollar, 1,000 square-mile facility in the Mojave Desert.

Editor's note: Staff writer Denise Etheridge is embedded with the 1st Brigade today through Friday at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif.

The familiar pattern of war deployments was visible once more this weekend as members of the 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team began deploying to Fort Irwin and the National Training Center in California.

Soldiers of 2nd Platoon, Crazy Horse Troop, 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment stand in formation and receive last-minute instructions before heading out to Fort Irwin's National Training Center for a month.

The federal Bureau of Land Management has captured 318 wild burros in the past two weeks on public land on or near Death Valley National Park, Fort Irwin, China Lake Naval Weapons Center and the lower Colorado River.

One of two U.S. Army soldiers charged in the murder of a Barstow woman last week pleaded not guilty today.