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Colombian Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo permits a U.S. Army unit to resume its advisory mission in the country after the Colombian Senate found that it did not constitute a deployment of foreign troops. A court had suspended the mission in early July after the opposition argued it did count as foreign troop movement, and thus needed Senate authorization.
2020-08-27

A United States Army Combat Aviation Brigade UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes off the coast of Hawaii, with five people on board. A United States Coast Guard-led search for the missing is underway.
2017-08-16

U.S. Army officials set August 8 as the start date for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s court-martial. Bergdahl, charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, was held captive by the Taliban for five years after he left his base in Afghanistan. A pre-trial hearing is scheduled for early this week.
2016-01-10

Former CIA director and U.S. Army officer David Petraeus pleads guilty in federal court to a charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified information.
2015-03-3

In "United States v. Bradley Manning", Bradley Manning is acquitted of aiding the enemy by giving classified United States Army information to WikiLeaks. Manning is found guilty of five espionage charges and five theft charges.
2013-07-30

A bomb kills eight people in Afghanistan's Wardak Province, including three United States Army soldiers, four Afghan National Army soldiers and an Afghan interpreter.
2013-07-23

Kandahar massacre: U.S. staff sergeant Robert Bales avoids the death penalty by pleading guilty to the murder of 16 Afghan civilians, including 9 children.
2013-06-5

Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs of the United States Army is convicted of murder in relation to the 2010 Maywand District killings in Afghanistan.
2011-11-10

The United States Army charges 5 US soldiers with murdering 3 Afghan civilians earlier this year.
2010-09-19

A United States Army private is transferred from Kuwait to a US Marines brig in Quantico, Virginia.
2010-07-30