Ronald Schow has spent more than a decade fighting to right a mistake — his promotion to major was botched in an administrative error — and said this final court decision against him was disappointing and exhausting.

Sgt. Reece Martin wanted to know more about his great uncle, Lawrence Martin, who landed in France on D-Day and died 10 days later. So he spent years finding out. Last week, on the 84th anniversary of the day Lawrence Martin enlisted, the Army celebrated his service and presented medals to the family.

The Coast Guard was using a method to determine back pay that shortchanged hundreds of veterans and must stop, according to federal court documents filed Friday in a yearslong lawsuit over retention panels found to have illegally thinned noncommissioned officers from the service.

The Army will house the headquarters of a merged Futures Command and Training and Doctrine Command in Austin instead of Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., as part of its efforts to downsize the service and reduce general officer billets.

A fuel tank at an Army storage facility exploded Wednesday morning, killing one employee who worked at the site, the service said.

The average age of enlistees to the Army is slowly rising beyond 18-year-olds who just graduated high school to young adults who have had a taste of college or the job market.

Spc. Zean Jones, 24, admitted in a Fort Cavazos courtroom Thursday to driving at high speeds after drinking alcohol, which led to the traffic accident that killed Staff Sgt. Christian Williams Sr., 32, on Nov. 7, 2023.

Since 2008, Brian K. Ditch, 44, was solely responsible for caring for his uncle, Thomas Clubb. However, Ditch would lock his uncle in the garage for more than 24 hours at a time, beating him, forcing him to sit in his own waste and denying him food or water.

Defense leaders called on the inspector general to review notification policies last year after incidents in military-run centers raised questions about when and how parents should be informed about possible abuse. The military operates America’s largest employer-sponsored child care program.

The military zone in New Mexico was established recently to give troops the jurisdiction to apprehend migrants crossing unlawfully into the United States from Mexico. But military operations at the southern border have largely remained the same.