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Bradley Fighting Vehicle and tank crews from the Maneuver Center of Excellence fired on the Digital Multi-Purpose Range Complex this week as part of a government acceptance test, one of the final tasks to complete before the complex is ready for Soldier training.

The 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) welcomes members of The Old Guard Association to Fort Myer, Va. for the 13th Annual TOGA reunion. TOGA consists of former service members and their families who have served in The Old Guard. More than 200 TOGA members participated in the reviewing ceremony and the laying of a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns. The Old Guard Association has 899 active members.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Sept. 29 he anticipates that more women will serve in military special operations in the future.

With Marines wounded in the battlefield in southern Afghanistan, Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jay Hanshaw flew Black Hawk helicopters low and fast into enemy fire three times in 12 hours to perform rescue missions.

The U.S. Military Academy Department of Law and the West Point Center for the Rule of Law recently hosted one day of the Telford Taylor Memorial Conference. The conference, a three-day event held at both Columbia Law School and West Point, brought together legal experts from around the world to compare military law and jurisprudence with that of international criminal law.

Fort Jackson is about to go through a name change. The installation will soon be renamed as an Army Training Center. Effective Friday Oct. 1, Fort Jackson will no longer be known as the Basic Combat Training Center of Excellence.

Reserve Soldiers have disembarked from the USNS Mercy after volunteering their skills in support of joint operations with the Navy to conduct disaster relief, civic assistance endeavors and other humanitarian missions.

NATO's top civilian official in Afghanistan says some major leaders of the insurgency appear tired of the war and are interested in a possible reconciliation with the government.

Intelligence officials have intercepted a credible terror plot against Britain and France, raising security fears at the Eiffel Tower on Tuesday, but failing to raise the overall threat level in either country. A counterterrorism official said some missile strikes in a recent surge of attacks by unmanned U.S. drones in Pakistan were aimed at disrupting suspected terrorist plots aimed at Europe.

Gen. David Petraeus trudges across a gravel helicopter landing area, looking purposeful but a bit grim, in violent Helmand province. He's here to chart progress, or lack thereof, in a war that's running at the pace of a horse cart, in a world that runs at the speed of a text message.