A US Army garrison in Bavaria is aiming to reach listeners beyond the gates with a podcast that provides glimpses into the personalities of the people who serve.

The new commander of the Army’s only division that includes foreign troops said Friday he is honored to serve alongside ‘one of the greatest armies and the US’s staunchest ally.’

A colonel who served as an academic program director and a chaperone for the West Point women’s tennis team faces charges that he made sexual comments to cadets, provided alcohol to one cadet and then asked the student to lie about it during an investigation, according to court records.

Two soldiers and an airman will run the length of 30 football fields on Friday, jumping 28 barriers and seven water pools in a race to qualify for the final spots on Team USA and go to Paris next month to compete in the Olympic games.

Brig. Gen. Curtis King took over from Brig. Gen. Maurice Barnett as the head of the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command at a ceremony at Sembach Kaserne.

Army paratroopers teamed up with a Pentagon agency earlier this month to locate and bring home the remains of a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot lost over central Italy during World War II.

A court in Russia convicted Staff Sgt. Gordon Black of stealing and making threats of murder, and it sentenced him to three years and nine months in prison.

Willie Mays, a perennial all-star center fielder for the New York and San Francisco Giants in the 1950s and ’60s whose powerful bat, superb athletic grace and crafty baseball acumen earned him a place with Babe Ruth atop the game’s roster of historic greats, died June 18. He was 93.

A soldier was killed and another injured early Saturday morning in a crash on the portion of Interstate 5 that runs through Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Wash., according to Army officials.

A lieutenant colonel with the Army Reserves says a reservist who committed the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history had a low threat profile when he left a psychiatric hospital prior to the killings. Robert Card had a history of mental illness and killed 18 people in a mass shooting that shook Maine.