Patty Nieberg

The Army is putting more accountability measures in place to ensure that good recruiters are not pulling the weight for an entire recruiting station and that “ineffective” ones are reassigned to make sure local offices are helping with service-wide recruitment goals, according to a policy memo obtained by Task & Purpose.

Harriet Tubman, a Black woman widely credited as the first female leader of a combat regiment during the Civil War, was posthumously commissioned as a brigadier general of the Maryland National Guard at a Veteran's Day ceremony.

The Army's newest legal arm is using a “reach back” authority to prosecute old cases of serious crimes that may have escaped prosecution.

Suicide rates across the active duty military have increased gradually, but steadily since 2011, according to the Pentagon's annual review of suicides across the military which was released Thursday.

President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was investigated in 2017 for sexual assault, according to police in Monterey, California.

The remains of a World War II bombardier whose B-24 bomber crashed in 1944 were located under 213 feet of water off Papua New Guinea in late September. Searchers found the remains with the help of specialized underwater sensors and an autonomous submarine provided by a nonprofit which works with the U.S. military and families to find missing American service members.

Maj. Kate Rubins, a microbiologist, astronaut and Reserve officer received a “rare” Army badge recognizing her military space travel.

Army Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue was tapped for a fourth star to lead U.S. Army Europe-Africa but a Senate hold has delayed his promotion.

How the U.S. military chooses and promotes its generals and admirals — the highest-ranking officers in the military — rarely gets attention. That changed this month with reports that officials appointed under President-elect Donald Trump may take a far more direct role in shaping the military's general officer corps

An Army Reserve master sergeant was arrested twice this month by Florida sheriffs for having inappropriate relationships with high school students while working as a substitute teacher.