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. 

The Defense Department is blocking access to many popular Internet sites from department-owned computers due to bandwidth issues, U.S. Strategic Command officials said Monday.

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.

Coalition forces detained five suspected Taliban militants in Zabul province, Afghanistan, on Monday, and Afghan civilians led coalition and Afghan security forces to a weapons cache Saturday in Paktia province, military officials reported. 

Eighty percent of the U.S. military units involved with the surge of troops into Baghdad and western Iraq are now in place, a senior U.S. military officer said in Baghdad Sunday. 

Iraq’s infrastructure is slowly improving despite years of neglect under Saddam Hussein’s Baath party and the current “costly insurgency,” a military commander said.