Why are we here? What is our purpose? Why are U.S. service members not allowed to grow beards? It is questions such as these, which tug at mankind’s innermost curiosities, that religions have endeavored to answer since the beginning of time. For some of those faiths, proper observance necessitates the growth of facial hair.

The Army is seeking to rapidly field wearable coronavirus detectors, in a push to get an earlier warning of a virus that has infected nearly 5,000 service members. On Monday, the military put out a $25 million bid through its Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium to develop the device. The Army hopes to award up to 10 contracts within weeks.

Lt. Gen. Laura J. Richardson has succeeded in breaking through a few glass ceilings in the US Army. Now she's set to break a new one. For the first time in US Army Forces Command, or FORSCOM, history, a woman will be leading the largest command in the Army, representing 776,000 soldiers and 96,000 civilians. This may be a first for the Army, but Richardson has had other firsts.

Facts about the First Battle Of Bull Run, a Civil War Battle of the American Civil War Battle Of Bull Run Facts Location Manassas, Virginia. Fairfax County and Prince William County Dates July 21, 1861 Generals Union: Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell Confederate: Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard & Gen. Joseph E. Johnston Soldiers Engaged Union: 28,400 …

Civil War drummers were a critical part of the army. Here are five things you should know about them.

Every general should receive the attention his services merit. Here are 10 leaders whose service to the Union cause makes them Civil War notables.

The United States Army’s finances are so jumbled it had to make trillions of dollars of improper accounting adjustments to create an illusion that its books are balanced. The Defense Department’s Inspector General, in a June report, said the Army made $2.8 trillion in wrongful adjustments to accounting entries in one quarter alone in 2015, and $6.5 trillion for the year. Yet the Army lacked receipts and invoices to support those numbers or simply made them up.

The Battle of the Crater page includes history articles, battle maps, photos, helpful web links, and recommended books for this important 1864 Civil War battle in Virginia.

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Why was Pickett’s Charge a disaster?

Gettysburg bound the United States into one nation.

Hundreds of men in the 134th New York Infantry died so that forces under Gen. Carl Schurz could live.

Was Confederate Gen. Richard S. Ewell responsible for losing Gettysburg?

The battle was a turning point of the war and it perfectly captured what the war was about.

At last week's Pentagon Lab Day in Washington, DC, the Army's Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) and Army Research Lab demonstrated a prototype of technology straight out of first-person shooter games—an "augmented reality" heads-up display that could help soldiers tap into sensors and other data.

The creation of army corps during the early winter of 1862 represents one of the greatest, if lesser known, organizational accomplishments of the Union Army.

It's finally happening! By Kyle Mizokami.

Col. Lonsdale Hale first coined the now oft-used phrase “fog of war” in 1896. He termed it as “the state of ignorance in which commanders frequently find themselves as regards the real strength and position, not only of their foes, but also of their friends.” Hale meant this figuratively, but there are times in war when its fog literally masks the reality of the moment.

The Battle of Antietam made freedom central to the Civil War, but also demonstrated its high cost.

What a regiment of inexperienced Indiana soldiers saw at Antietam.