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Four times as many troops and vets have died by suicide as in combat, study finds
There are so many risks for suicide that it's hard to point to the one responsible for the rise in suicides, the report found.
'This is my squad’: SMA Grinston talks about his push to build cohesive units
The campaign is aiming to emulate the bond that can be found among Army special operations forces.
By Kyle Rempfer
Student loan crisis, not Mideast wars, helped Army leaders exceed recruiting goals this year
The service’s leadership said it will exceed this year’s desired active duty end-strength of 478,000 troops.
By Kyle Rempfer
The Army is extending recruiters’ orders by two months ... to ask them if they want an extension
The Army is offering $1,500 a month for current recruiters to tack an extra year onto their tours, in a scramble to get the recruiting force manned at 100 percent for the new year.
To draw more soldiers, the Army wants more recruiters, bigger budgets and a better slogan
It's getting harder to find new recruits, so the Army is rethinking how it competes to get today's young people.
The Army’s new ‘deploy or get out’ policy will let some dental, health exams slide
The Army is changing some of the rules for "non-deployable" soldiers in its forthcoming policy.
Recon shortage: Why these elite Marines are facing a manpower crisis
But manpower concerns are not the only issues facing the Corps’ elite and storied recon units.
By Shawn Snow and Andrea Scott
Pentagon now says 7,200 troops are in Iraq and Syria
The Pentagon is trying to downplay troop numbers for both countries.
By Tara Copp, AP
The Pentagon keeps a daily count of troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria — but won’t publicly disclose it
Recent reports suggest that the total number of U.S. troops in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan may be about 20,000, far more than the official tally of about 14,000.
By Tara Copp, AP