September 12 2004

After years of being stuffed into small rooms at 150 percent capacity with no air conditioning, Army Reserve units stationed in Mesa are finally getting some relief.

A Mesa military man has admitted to falsifying deployment orders to postpone his trial on drunken-driving charges, according to Army documents.

A Mesa military man has admitted to falsifying deployment orders to postpone his trial on drunken-driving charges, according to Army documents.

VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia - Not long after two top commanders of Latin America's last major rebel army were killed - one in a raid, the other by a turncoat bodyguard - Diego Canizares decided to call it quits.

March 9, 2005

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday he's inclined to approve an Army proposal to spend nearly $3 billion extra to accelerate the expansion of its active-duty force.

The 14-year-old was in the shower when his sister started banging on the bathroom door, yelling that a plane had hit the World Trade Center.

Just days after Pat Tillman died from friendly fire on a desolate ridge in southeastern Afghanistan, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command released a brief account of his last moments.

December 6, 2004

LATROBE, Pa. - Most U.S. troops will leave Iraq within a year because the Army is "broken, worn out" and "living hand to mouth," Rep. John Murtha told a civic group.

U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Donald Schumann, of Mesa, is a pilot with Co. C "Mountain Dustoff," 3rd Battalion, 10th Aviation Regiment, Task Force Falcon in Afghanistan. This medical evacuation unit transports patients from one base to another and picks up patients from the point of injury, usually from the battlefield.

Funeral and military services for a 19-year-old Mesa soldier killed in Iraq will be this morning.

WASHINGTON — The Army chief of staff said Friday that the protracted fight over the budget is having a severe impact on Army training.

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between the United States and Iraq that would bring all American troops home by 2012, the top U.S. Army officer said Tuesday.

U.S. Army National Guardsman Abe Boyd, a single working father of three sons, ages 6, 12 and 15, will have much to be thankful for this holiday season. Boyd and his family will receive a newly refurbished 2003 Toyota Sequoia from Mesa's Impact Auto Body and State Farm through Recycled Rides and Project We Remember.

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Former pro football player Pat Tillman was probably killed by friendly fire as he led his team of Army Rangers up a hill during a firefight in Afghanistan last month, the U.S. Army said Saturday.

WASHINGTON - The first Army investigator who looked into the death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan last year found within days that he was killed by his fellow Rangers in an act of ‘‘gross negligence,’’ but Army officials decided not to inform the family of the former star of the Arizona Cardinals and Arizona State University or the public until weeks after a nationally televised memorial service.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Suffer from a bad case of acne? That could disqualify you from joining the Army National Guard. Too many speeding tickets? In today's slimmer, smarter Guard, that could keep you out, too.

May 23, 2005

The parents of former ASU and Arizona Cardinals star Pat Tillman are lashing out against the Army, saying the military’s investigations into Tillman’s friendly-fire death in Afghanistan last year were a sham and that Army efforts to cover up the truth have made it harder for them to deal with their loss.

BAGHDAD - Only in Iraq a few weeks, nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives learned they were being shipped off to southern Afghanistan, one of the clearest signs of America's shifting wartime priorities. The transfer, which moved into its final stages Monday, is the largest movement so far of personnel and equipment from Iraq as President Barack Obama puts the focus on the fight in the Taliban heartland.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - The husband of a Fort Bragg Army nurse whose remains were found amid a brush fire was charged Monday with first-degree murder and a fellow Marine was charged with being an accomplice.

The latest version of the Apache Longbow attack helicopter took to the air for a ceremonial first flight Wednesday with the U.S. Army's highest-ranking aviation commander at the controls.