United States Army

Composer Irving Burgie, who helped popularize Caribbean music and co-wrote the enduring Harry Belafonte hit “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song),” has died at the age of 95. At the Barbados Independence Day Parade on Saturday, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley announced Burgie died Friday. “Day-O,” written in 1952, has been ubiquitous, appearing in everything from the film and Broadway musical...

Morton Katz is a 100-year-old World War II veteran who now serves as a public defender in Hartford.

U.S. Army officials say three soldiers were killed and three others were injured when the armored vehicle they were riding in rolled over into water during training at Fort Stewart in Georgia. Officials with the Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield’s 3rd Infantry Division said in a news release that the crash occurred around 3:20 a.m. Sunday. The release had few additional...

The public was invited to attend the graveside services for a U.S. Army veteran who did not have any surviving family members and a crowd of around 300 people showed up.

Unclaimed for years, the cremated remains of three soldiers and one sailor were finally laid to rest in a solemn military funeral ceremony at Connecticut’s State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown Thursday.

Military officials are investigating after 32 parachuting soldiers were injured _ four badly enough to require hospitalization _ when 87 jumpers were blown into trees during a night training exercise in Mississippi. Injuries during training jumps are fairly common, but the scale of this accident is fairly rare, Col. Christopher Landers, commander of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry...

A document prepared at a U.S. Army base in Oklahoma says officials have been alerted to “disturbing” online chatter about a potential mass shooting threat at a theater during next week’s release of the movie “Joker,” but it references no specific location.

A 41-year-old Green Beret who was on his fourth combat deployment has been killed by small arms fire in Afghanistan. U.S. Army Special Operations Command spokesman Loren Bymer at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg said in a statement that Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy W. Griffin died Monday. Griffin was from Greenbrier, Tennessee, and was a Special Forces communications sergeant based at...

Maj. Gen. Maria Barrett and Brig. Gen. Paula Lodi are the first sisters in the U.S. Army to hold the rank of general. Barrett oversees communications networks and her younger sister, Lodi, serves in the Army’s medical command. They talked to NBC News’ Kate Snow about their achievements, their family’s history of service and how they hope to inspire others....

Two British D-Day veterans completed tandem parachute jumps in northern France on Wednesday to mark the 75th anniversary of Normandy landings during World War II. Harry Read, 95, and John Hutton, 94, both recreated their daring exploits as part of the Allied operation on June 6, 1944.

No murderous hails of gunfire this time. No D-Day objective that had to be taken, whatever the cost. This time, 75 years almost to the hour after he parachuted into Nazi-occupied France, Tom Rice again found himself floating down through Normandy’s skies, now a grizzled 97-year-old thrilled as a little kid. “Woo-hoo!” the ex-paratrooper yelped after hitting the ground, carrying...

World War II veteran John Danaher says he knows all too well why freedom isn’t free.

Dozens of people lined Main Street in Farmington Monday morning for the Memorial Day parade. They waived American flags as marching bands, police officers, firefighters, active service members and community organizations passed by.

A photo captured during Thursday’s round of severe weather captured the dedication and persistence of those guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Twenty-two people were sworn in Friday as naturalized American citizens.

Long cracks have formed in the national World War II Memorial on the mall in Washington, D.C. A 20-foot hairline fracture is visible on a major pillar on the Atlantic side of the site. Several smaller cracks are forming on the District of Columbia pillar.

A San Diego World War II veteran collapsed and died on his return flight from Washington D.C. where he spent his final weekend touring monuments and memorials dedicated to all he and other veterans have sacrificed.

President Donald Trump has pardoned a former U.S. soldier convicted in 2009 of killing an Iraqi prisoner, the White House announced Monday. Trump signed an executive grant of clemency, a full pardon, for former Army 1st Lt. Michael Behenna, of Oklahoma, press secretary Sarah Sanders said.

A sendoff ceremony was held Tuesday for about 120 members of Connecticut Army National Guard ahead of their deployment to Cuba.

About 120 members of the Connecticut Army National Guard are preparing to deploy to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to serve for a year at the U.S. military detention center.