COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Army is ditching the hot, ill-fitting black wool berets that soldiers have worn for years and allowing them to go back to their old, brimmed patrol caps. Army Secretary John ...

Elite units in the 1.1 million-member Army will continue to wear their colored berets as a mark of honor — green for Special Forces, tan for Rangers, maroon for airborne troops.

The U.S. Army says it has banned the use of body armor that is not issued by the military. Army officials say any soldier wearing commercially purchased body armor will have to turn it in and have ...

U.S. Army ditches black berets in favor of caps COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- It's hot, it doesn't keep the sun out of your eyes, and you need two hands and a mirror to make sure it's on straight.

The U.S. Army pushed back Thursday against a recent inspector general’s report that criticized the testing of body armor used by many soldiers in Afghanistan, praising the quality of the armor ...

Burnett fraudulently supplied hundreds of thousands of Chinese-produced baseball caps and backpacks to the Army Recruiting Command, despite contracts stating the items "MUST BE 100 % U.S. MADE ...

After enduring a year of debate on the supremacy of its Interceptor Body Armor in relative silence, the Army is going public to put to rest any doubts that IBA is the best available and that it ...

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – Female soldiers from Fort Campbell deploying to Afghanistan will field test the first Army body armor that is shorter and better tailored specifically to fit women's ...

A U.S. Army Infantryman with the 10th Mountain Division assigned to the East African Response Force puts on his body armor in preparation for an emergency deployment exercise on Camp Lemonnier ...