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The previously annual event, called off in recent years, is scheduled to be held at the U.S. Army base in Columbia on July 2.

A Memorial Day Commemoration Ceremony was on Fort Jackson to honor who died while serving our nation.

A team from Saudi Arabia came to Fort Jackson get a closer view at the type of organization and training provided at the U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School.

Fort Jackson's Army Drill Sergeant Academy candidates enjoyed quite the feast today.  The men and women make sacrifices to serve and protect including being away from their families during the holidays

After two decades, the United States is finally leaving Afghanistan, and only 2,500 U.S. troops remain in Iraq. In both countries, the insurgencies continue. It wasn’t supposed to end this way. In both wars, Washington hoped that imposing democratic reforms could protect the population, win hearts and minds, and defeat the insurgency. That, after all, was the narrative spelled out in the vaunted U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, published in 2006, which was intended to g...

The US Armys saccharine new recruitment drive, The Calling (YouTube/GoArmy) The US Army is following the CIA’s “woke-washing” tactic with a new recruitment video that uses the tale of a queer family to tug at your heartstrings. Launched this week, “The Calling” is an eye-wateringly saccharine animated series on the origin stories of five diverse soldiers, each explaining why they answered the call to serve. The cuddly campaign begins with corporal Emma Malonelord, a child of two mothe...

Army Embraces Anime in New Recruiting Campaign Section of the poster for “The Calling,” a new Army marketing effort featuring anime videos on YouTube. (U.S. Army) 6 May 2021 The Army has launched a new marketing campaign featuring soldiers transformed into anime characters to tell their personal stories in support of an upcoming recruiting surge known as Army National Hiring Days 2021. "The Calling" is a series of short videos being aired on YouTube focused on five soldiers from difficult b...

A virtual recruiting push is part of the Army’s effort to meet its recruiting needs in a world where brick-and-mortar recruiting stations are less frequented and the military as a whole is working to be apolitical.

The Army, in an attempt to bolster recruiting as the coronavirus pandemic stretches into a second year, will offer extra bonuses starting next week to individuals who commit to serve in 11 high-demand jobs, service officials said Wednesday.

Feb 26, 2021 (Columbia, SC) -- Fort Jacksons commanding general is now reassigned.  Brigadier General Milford Beagle Junior will be serving as commanding general in Fort Drum, New York.  The deputy commanding general of Fort Knox in Kentucky, Brigadier General Patrick Michaelis, will be taking over at Fort Jackson.  There is no timeline set for the transition, and officials say Michaelis being the replacement is not set in stone.