For three-and-a-half days last week, 48 men and women from marketing companies charged with promoting the Army were put through a mini-basic combat training at Fort Jackson.

The Army is helping U.S. states and territories that are in the paths of potentially deadly hurricanes by providing equipment to help fill shortages identified by National Guard commanders.

The U.S. Army Installation Management Command is accepting applications through Monday for the fiscal 2008 Centralized Mentoring Program.

The U.S. Army Recruiting Command introduced two new enlistment incentives. A bonus of up to $51,864 is available to recruits signing up for a two-year enlistment in more than 45 active-Army military occupational specialties.

Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers trained alongside soldiers of 14 Caribbean nations here during Tradewinds 2007 May 5-16.

The American public has sent more than 201,000 prepaid phone cards to service members through the Army and Air Force Exchange Service’s “Help Our Troops Call Home” program.

In a visit to Fort McPherson and Fort Gillem on Tuesday, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. emphasized his goal to support Army families. 

Active-duty and reserve-component units that deploy anywhere in the world have the opportunity to showcase their training or contingency deployment successes by entering the 2008 annual Army Chief of Staff Deployment Excellence Awards for deployments made between Dec. 1, 2006, and Nov. 3, 2007.

Another new security feature has been added to myPay to protect customers’ data on the pay account system. 

Army officials will continue to monitor manning and may offer bonuses to mid-level officers and noncommissioned officers if needed, the Army chief of staff said Friday.