Helocasting - jumping out of a moving helicopter 10 feet above the water moving at 10 knots an hour. For members of Fort Drum’s 10th Aviation Combat Brigade, it’s simply another day at the office.
Deployments are what the 10th Mountain Division does and right now, hundreds of troops, usually home in the north country, are away, some in harm’s way.
Female soldiers were off on the Woman Warriors Foot March, complete with ruck sacks - and 7 News reporter Emly Griffin joined them for part of the march.
As of Tuesday, Protective services civilian employees are eligible to shop at all Commissary shops, according to the 10th Mountain Division’s Facebook page.
As the military struggles to meet recruiting goals, lawmakers in the divided U.S. House of Representatives seem united on a proposed fix: relaxing the Pentagon’s policies on marijuana use.
There’s a new center for veterans in Watertown. After a series of speeches and a ribbon-cutting ceremony, people toured the new facility just off Washington Street.
Fallen Fort Drum soldiers were honored on post Tuesday. One Gold Star family makes the 850-mile journey every year to honor their son and join with other families who know the same loss.
Professional songwriters from Nashville are in the north country to take part in Operation Song, an organization that has served the military community for a decade.
An Army reservist who lost both legs after being deployed from Fort McCoy in Wisconsin to Afghanistan more than a decade ago came to the north country recently to try snowboarding for the first time since his injury.
The Department of Defense says 1 out of every 4 service members in the U.S. military experience food insecurity, meaning they don’t have enough money to put food on the table.
Monday marks 20 years since the beginning of the war in Iraq. We discussed the anniversary with 10th Mountain Division leaders at Fort Drum who spent long parts of their careers overseas in the conflict.
Saturday afternoon on Fort Drum, soldiers, veterans and family members gathered to commemorate the death of 11 soldiers who died in a helicopter crash 20 years ago.
The Army Times reports that although the Army saw a decline in recent years, soldiers at 5 installations are dying of drug overdoses at more than double the rate of other Defense Department personnel.