It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must announce that a soldier from 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham yesterday, 2 January 2012, from wounds sustained while serving in Afghanistan in June 2010.

Ministry of Defense Article

A Ministry of Defence scientist has been awarded an OBE in Her Majesty The Queen's New Year's Honours List, in recognition of his world-leading armour protection work.

Ministry of Defense Article

Seventeen months after first stepping into the Gainesville, Fla., recruiting station and after losing 84 pounds, Pvt. Allison Scarbrough proved she was ready to be Army Strong.

United States Army Article

A personnel scanner was put into operation at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Dec. 31, 2011, to scan Afghan civilians requiring access to a coalition run hospital.

United States Army Article

The Tennessee Army National Guard's 230th Sustainment Brigade transferred the logistics mission in Kuwait to the North Carolina Army National Guard's 113th Sustainment Brigade, Dec. 27, 2011, at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.

United States Army Article

It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of Private John King of 1st Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, on 30 December 2011.

Ministry of Defense Article

As a young man in the '60s, Homer Hickam was idealistic and eager to experience what he thought would be the adventure of war. But if someone asked him to go secure a hill today, he joked, he would just sit back and ask for another gin and tonic.

United States Army Article

When Ernest Fessenden sent his brother Staff Sgt. Chris Fessenden a remote-controlled truck in Afghanistan, he hoped that the truck would help keep his brother safe. It did that and more.

United States Army Article

For three weeks in November approximately 3,800 Soldiers and 1,000 vehicles of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, traveled into the New Mexico wilderness, to test and evaluate dozens of computerized, digital systems that could give the Army a future tactical edge, during an exercise called the Network Integration Evaluation 12.1.

United States Army Article

It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that a soldier from 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment was killed yesterday, Friday 30 December 2011, in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand Province.

Ministry of Defense Article