CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea, Aug. 12, 2015 – Army Cpl. Tristan L. Booth helped to rescue an injured South Korean citizen who’d fallen onto the railroad tracks at a train station in the nearby city of Pyeongtaek. Booth, a native of Maple Valley, Washington, and the senior cable system installer/maintainer from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Combat … [Read more...]

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Aug. 11, 2015) -- Russian intervention in Georgia in 2008 took the West by surprise in its rapidity and intensity, said Col. Bob Hamilton, who was there as chief of the Office of Defense Cooperation from 2006 to 2008. "You can't look at Ukraine today in isolation from what happened in Georgia in 2008," he said. It's a classic example of Russian … [Read more...]

FORT HOOD, Texas, Aug. 11, 2015 – Almost eight months after he was wounded in Afghanistan, Army Spc. Gilbert Frazier accepted the medals he earned at his home station here surrounded by his brothers-in-arms and his wife. Frazier, a combat engineer assigned to 3rd Combat Engineer Company, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, received the Purple Heart, an Army Commendation Medal and the … [Read more...]

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Aug. 11, 2015) -- A U.S. Army team is testing and helping to develop a language translator to enable Soldiers communicate with their African counterparts. Improving the ability of American service members to communicate in foreign languages, particularly in French dialects, is becoming critical in Africa, said Maj. Eddie Strimel, the field … [Read more...]

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (Aug. 10, 2015) -- On May 9, 2015, during a combat patrol around Bagram Airfield, or BAF, Pfc. Matthew Aiken's vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device, or lED. As the vehicle's gunner, Aiken's upper torso and head were directly exposed to the detonation. At BAF's Craig Hospital, it was determined that he received a concussion because of … [Read more...]