Fort Drum News

U.S. Naval Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian M. Patton died Thursday in Kuwait in an automobile crash.

You know, going back to the Beauchamp story, you have to remember just how crazy this time period was for everyone.

Rep. Bill Owens, D-Plattsburgh, tonight picked up his party's support for a seat on the House Armed Services Committee, an appointment that would allow him to continue in the footsteps of former Rep.

Soldier suicides this year are almost sure to top last year's grim totals, but a recent decline in the pace of such incidents could mean the Army is starting to make progress in stemming them, officials said Tuesday.

The 2005 round of military base closures that spared Fort Drum will cost billions of dollars more, and save tens of millions less, than officials originally predicted, a federal audit indicates.

They'd arrived at the project site at 9 a.m., and by 11, a wall had gone up, a floor had been painted, the brush was coming down along the overgrown riverbank and hundreds of donated items were being unpacked and sorted for distribution.

It is 1945 in the Philippines. A short while earlier, American forces were made the Bataan Death March.

If the disease is the war, and a culture of trauma, anger and violence at Fort Hood , applying meditation and stress management techniques sends the message to the soldier that the distress lies within the individual mind -- when, in fact, the problem is the political, cultural and programmatic insanity imposed on the person from the outside, by ...

A U.S. army soldier pass by a burning fuel truck on a road outside Jalalabad, Nangarhar province,... A U.S. army soldier pass by a burning fuel truck on a road outside Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov.

In September, as 10th Mountain Division soldiers were engaged in one of their toughest Afghanistan deployments in recent years, Maj.

The sentencing of Alan Jones for the murder of Erin Maxwell has been delayed after allegations of improper jury deliberations.

Thursday, November 05, 2009 at 4:44 p.m. FORT DRUM -- T he afternoon shooting at Fort Hood, Texas has soldiers and staff concerned at Fort Drum just north of Watertown, but it has not changed any security procedures on the North Country post.

Thursday, November 05, 2009 at 11:39 p.m. I t wasn't long before news of the dead and A dozens A wounded at A F ort A H ood started to spread to the thousands of soldiers stationed at A F ort A D rum.

Under the bright lights inside Buckner Physical Fitness Center on Fort Richardson Army Post Oct.

For the first time since the mid-19th century, a Democrat will represent Northern New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

President Barack Obama's decision in June to appoint a Republican congressman to a Pentagon post has paid dividends in November now that Democrats have gained the House seat by capitalizing on a split between moderates and conservatives in the GOP.

While praising Democratic Congressional candidate William L. Owens as a man of values, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

The new Army secretary received an official welcome from Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and the Armya s top uniformed officer today at a ceremony held in Conmy Hall at Fort Myer, Va.

Earmarks have become a bit of an issue... not raised by a candidate... but because of assertions by reporters.

DoD Identifies Army Casualties The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of seven soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.