Five U.S. Army helicopters slung with firefighting gear pitched in this week to help curb the worst wildfires in South Korea’s history, according to U.S. Forces Korea. Most of the fires were extinguished Saturday after burning nearly 120,000 acres, primarily in the country’s southeast.

Body camera footage from Staff Sgt. Bryan C. Black, a Green Beret killed in a 2017 ambush in Niger, has led the Army for the second time to award Black posthumously for his bravery during the firefight seven years ago.

Five men, including four former soldiers, were sentenced this week to prison time, probation and fines for their participation in the theft of nearly $3 million worth of military equipment from Fort Cavazos in Texas.

The Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade at Fort Benning, Ga., will drop its long-held Day 1 Ranger Physical Fitness Assessment of pushups, situps, chinups and a five-mile run for a new, nine-event test meant to better mimic the demands of combat.

The Army’s top enlisted leader said this week that he wants to overhaul how soldiers are promoted by making military skill set tests the driving factor in who advances in rank.

More dredging gear was headed on Friday to the site where four U.S. soldiers remain missing in Lithuania, as personnel from multiple countries join an effort complicated by mud and flooding.

Boeing says it has won a $240 million contract to upgrade five more Chinook helicopters for the U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command, adding work for the company’s sprawling assembly plant and engineering complex in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said Wednesday during a visit to Fort Bliss that he had approved federal immigration officials to establish a migrant detention facility at the base in west Texas along the U.S. border with Mexico.

About 200 troops from the Army’s 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colo. — a trained combat unit — are already on the ground in and around Big Bend. That number is expected to grow to some 500 in coming weeks, Army officials say.

The El Paso Police Department arrested Spc. Eric Lammarr Mathis, 23, at the west Texas Army base on Monday and charged him with murder for the death of Pvt. Edward DaQuan Smith, 23.