Fort Leavenworth News

GORDON Brown and David Cameron have apologised for using a Remembrance Day service as a photo opportunity.

THE lives of British soldiers were put at 'significant' risk by an 'appalling' lack of preparation in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, a leaked official report revealed yesterday.

The Army is considering a major redesign of the M4 aimed at making the weapon shoot cleaner and longer - at high rates of fire.

Improvised explosive devices have been the largest source of casualties in the war zone and remain a persistent problem.

It was 6 a.m. on Nov. 16, 1989, when a gardener named Obdulio Ramos saw that six Jesuit priests and his wife and daughter had been gunned down by soldiers in El Salvador.

The beautiful and amazingly talented Miranda Lambert will be performing at Fort Leavenworth on December 6 at 6:30 p.m. in the Eisenhower Auditorium, Lewis and Clark Center.

The wives of three Army sergeants in prison for premeditated murder say their husbands are war heroes who should not be in prison.

For months, we wanted to hear from John Hatley. He's the former first sergeant who had the idea to take four Iraqi detainees to a Baghdad canal and, along with two other sergeants, kill them.

U.S. soldiers interrogated by the Army in the 2007 murders of four Iraqi detainees blamed a military policy they said made it too hard to detain suspected insurgents, a CNN investigation has found.

A memorial service is held Sunday for Michael Grant Cahill, one of the Fort Hood victims, at St.

The accused Fort Hood gunman , Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan will be tried by a court martial, and prosecutors will have the option of seeking the death penalty.

Reuben Rhodes, left, of Shaw Environmental, uses a metal detector to find pieces of test bombs in a field south of Alma recently as Cindy Burns takes detailed notes of the places where the metal is.

Retired US Army 1st Sergeant Osman Danquah , Imam Syed Ahmed Ali and retired US Army 1st Class Jameel Sabree speak with the media at the Islamic Community center of Greater Killeen, where US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan attended prayer services, on November 9, 2009 in Killeen, Texas.

Spencer Green / Associated Press Members of the Patriot Guard Riders escort the hearse carrying Pfc.

Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist alleged to have killed 13 people at the massive Army installation in Texas last week, might also benefit from protections the military provides defendants that are greater than those offered in civilian federal courts.

The White House pushed forward Thursday with a review to determine whether U.S. intelligence agencies adequately shared information about Maj.

Veterans Day is a time for the nation to reflect on the many sacrifices that veterans such as my wife's father, Alford Allen, and my own father, the late Thomas D. Pettit, endured for the freedom of their families, neighbors and friends.

Though the suspect in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood could face the death penalty, he will be prosecuted in a military justice system where no one has been executed in nearly a half-century. Maj.

Military prosecutors have charged Maj. Nadil Malik Hasan with 13 counts of premeditated murder in last week's shooting rampage at Fort Hood , Tex., a spokesman for the Army criminal investigation division said Thursday.

Walter Plaue, 74, grew up in upstate New York and in 1947 visited the West Point Academy with his Boy Scout troop.