Fort Riley News

A former soldier who spent about 16 months in the warrior transition battalion here now looks forward to a rewarding career as an Army civilian.

Depot fundraiser 5:00 PM Holyrood Fire Department community room Money from the spaghetti dinner will go to the Holyrood Santa Fe Depot restoration committee.

Wes Studi, an actor who has appeared in more than 50 film and television productions such as the movies ""Dances With Wolves,"" ""Geronimo"" and ""Comanche Moon,"" came to Fort Riley as a guest speaker for a National American Heritage Observance ceremony Thursday.

Staff Sgt. Ryan L. Zorn, 35, a Soldier assigned as a Transition Team member to the 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, has died from wounds sustained in Iraq.

A bill that contains money for projects at Fort Riley and for the National Guard is in the hands of House and Senate negotiators.

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.

The Canadian Army and Air Force soldiers are in Salina, training at the nearby Smoky Hill Weapons Range.

Burdette and Harriet Burch of Sterling, 88 and 89, respectively, recall the day they met on a bus in Georgia while they were serving during WWII, she for the Navy, he in the Army.

Spc. Tony Carrasco Jr., a 25-year-old soldier from Berino, N.M., died Wednesday when his unit was attacked by insurgents while providing security in Ad Dawr, Iraq.

Success in Afghanistan is measured in Washington by the ability to create an indigenous army that will battle the Taliban, provide security and stability for Afghan civilians and remain loyal to the puppet government of Hamid Karzai.

Officials say distribution of sensitive information could lead to a potential terrorist attack.

Military justice in the case of Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan, suspected in Thursday's shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, will be swift, efficient and open to public scrutiny, a local lawmaker and Army veteran said Friday.

Phlebotomist Sumer Mosley takes a blood donation from a U.S. Army Pfc. Jose Estrada, with the 411th Military Police Company at Fort Hood, Thursday, at Scott and White Hospital in Temple, Texas.

The entrance to Fort Hood, Texas, was closed after a shooting on the base left 13 people dead Thursday.

In the coming months, the 1st Infantry Division will roll up its "Big Red One" flag and plant it in Iraq for a year, the scene of a fight that's slowly becoming America's other war.

Major Smith and Iraqi children during a humanitarian mission with Iraqi forces. During this mission the advisor team and Iraqi soldiers distributed clothing and toys donated by people in the United States, medicine, and school supplies.

Will Joines is pictured next to a pallet of school supplies that he, along with members of the Cherokee Hy-Vee Distribution Center, gathered together to send to needy children in the war-torn county of Afghanistan.

The Department of the Army announced today a series of planned unit activations and conversions at Fort Riley, Kan.

An 8-year-old girl remains in Children's Mercy Hospital fighting the H1N1 flu . Doctors said Grace Silva-Rivera was deathly ill days ago, but her condition is improving.

Fort Riley hosted a groundbreaking ceremony in anticipation of construction for the new state of the art Irwin Army Community Hospital Friday afternoon.