A Stryker brigade with the Army’s 4th Infantry Division has also been informed that it might delploy to the southern border if additional troops are needed, Task & Purpose has learned.

WASHINGTON –The Department of the Army announced today the spring deployments of the following units: The 2nd Mobile Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), to Europe to ...

The 12th Battalion was among the first infantry units raised for the AIF during the First World War. Half of the battalion was recruited in Tasmania, a quarter was recruited in South Australia, and a ...

The 5th Battalion was among the first infantry units raised for the AIF during the First World War. Like the 6th, 7th and 8th Battalions it was recruited from Victoria and, together with these ...

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines — Two soldiers, both members of the Army’s 32nd Infantry Battalion, were killed while six others were wounded in an encounter in Basilan province on Wednesday ...

Perhaps the first clear evidence of the “crutch battalions” appeared on social media last week. A Ukrainian drone spotted a Russian assault group largely made up of men on crutches limping ...

A Coweta County battalion fire chief was shot and killed in Alabama while trying to help a stranger who hit a deer, officials say. Investigators say William Randall Franklin opened fire and killed ...

CHAMBERS COUNTY, Ala. — A Coweta County fire battalion chief died on Sunday after an Alabama man shot him while he was trying to help a driver who hit a deer. James Bartholomew Cauthen ...

Sweden sent 550 troops from one of its mechanized infantry battalions to Riga, Latvia, on Saturday to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade on NATO’s eastern flank. Latvia borders Russia to the ...

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A ship carrying parts of a mechanised infantry battalion arrived early on Saturday in the port of Riga, the Latvian capital, escorted by the Swedish air force and units from the Swedish and ...