Next month, the U.S. Army will begin equipping its infantry brigades with new mountaineering kits full of high-end climbing gear, an effort fueled by a decade of hard lessons in the heights of ...

The 173rd Airborne Brigade's legacy was written in blood long before the mountains of Afghanistan or the sands of Iraq. It ...

(June 1, 2010) -- After 40 years of Army service dating back to the Vietnam War ... was as an instructor at the Infantry Training Command (Provisional), U.S. Army Training Center Infantry ...

The introduction of the M16 as the standard infantry ... U.S. troops easier, it threatened them, almost from the start. The rifles were delivered to troops in Vietnam in 1965 without cleaning kits ...

On what troops call an "I love me wall" behind his desk, he had hung photos of himself in Vietnam alongside ... apparent in 1991, when U.S. Army armor and mechanized infantry drove the Iraqi ...

The Army has authorized a new badge for soldiers who have earned both the Combat Infantryman Badge ... Weimer said during the Association of the U.S. Army conference in Washington, D.C. The ...