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All gates on Fort Campbell Kentucky are closed until further notice. A vehicle entered the installation without stopping. Procedures dictate that all gates close until the vehicle is located or situation is deemed all clear

A military helicopter crashed outside Fort Campbell Ky. Wednesday night near the Tennessee border, officials said. Maj. Allen Hill, a spokesman for the 101st Airborne Division, said in a statement that crew members were flying an AH-64D Apache during a routine training mission. The aircraft went down about 12 miles south of Fort Campbell. The Tennessean reports the aircraft was found in a rural area of Montgomery County, Tenn. Montgomery County Emergency Management Agency Director Jerry Buchanan told the newspaper the helicopter was found crashed in a river bottom and was on fire when emergency personnel arrived.

Where’s Matty? On July 20, 2013, Spc. Brent Grommet returned from Afghanistan with his military working dog, a Czech German shepherd named Matty. The two had gone through basic training together, deployed together and were injured together when a roadside IED detonated. Grommet slept on top of Matty’s crate as they flew back to the United States. Upon landing at an Air Force base in New Jersey, the two were separated — standard operating procedure. Grommet wasn’t worried, though: According to Army regulations, if he wanted Matty, he had the sole right to adopt his military working dog. This right...

The 12-year-old daughter of a U.S. soldier deployed overseas was reportedly sent home from school by administrators for violating the dress code. -snip administrators reportedly objected because the shirt did not have a collar, -snip This all happened at Mahaffey Middle School, which is located on Fort Campbell Army Base in Kentucky.

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. - Four criminals are off the streets of Clarksville thanks to two Ft. Campbell soldiers who caught the suspects in the act in two separate incidents this week. The soldiers live just a few miles from one another and caught the thieves just one day apart. Early on Wednesday, the first solder saw a man opening the door to his SUV outside his home in the 3400 block of Old Timber Road and walked outside to approach him. "The burglar was startled and started to run, the homeowner chased after him," Clarksville police spokesperson Sgt. Jim Knoll explained....

Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo, after raising suspicions at a Killeen, Texas, gun shop where he purchased six pounds of gunpowder and several boxes of shotgun shells, was in police custody in Killeen on Thursday, accused of plotting to kill fellow soldiers in a frightening reprise of the November 2009 massacre at Fort Hood. Abdo, 21, who grew up in Garland outside of Dallas, was close to pulling off a "terror plot" in which the intended target was troops based at Fort Hood, said Killeen Police Chief Dennis Baldwin. "We would probably be here today giving you a different briefing had...

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- A tough battle continues in eastern Afghanistan's most volatile area where six U.S. soldiers died on Tuesday, said Maj. Gen. John F. Campbell, commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division. Campbell spoke to reporters at Fort Campbell on the Tennessee-Kentucky state line during a video conference from his headquarters in Bagram on Thursday and said that 117 members of the 101st have died in Afghanistan since last March. All six soldiers were from the 1st Brigade Combat Team. The latest deaths came during ongoing combat to clear insurgents from eastern Afghanistan. Campbell said he couldn't discuss...

The high school football ritual is a little different for the Falcons of Fort Campbell High School in Kentucky. As the name implies, the school is on a military base. Therefore on top of sports, homework and standard teenage drama, many players are also dealing with the stress of having a parent deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Playing football on a military base is a different experience from a standard public school. For one, Gerard J. Counts, a retired command sergeant major, gives the team fiery pre-game speeches before they play. Almost every high school football team hears such a...

Wifey and I are moving to a military base. She is going active duty as an Army nurse. We are looking at Ft. Campbell, Ft. Knox and Ft. Bragg. Can anybody make any recommendations? Thanks!

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - When Evelyn Burwell put on a cap and gown to accept her high school diploma, she knew someone wasn't in the audience , her dad. The 18-year-old's father is serving in Iraq, like so many other parents of her classmates at Fort Campbell High School, the largest high school on an American military base. His service has meant missing two of his children's high school graduations, countless anniversaries and birthdays, and this year, his daughter being crowned prom queen.

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — Fort Campbell is getting ready for its next baby boom following the return of thousands of soldiers to the Army post after deployment in Iraq. Blanchfield Army Community Hospital is receiving nearly a dozen new expecting mothers each day, and officials expect deliveries to peak in June. The monthly average of births is 130, and the highest number the Army hospital ever delivered was 202 in October 2004. In May, however, about 180 mothers are expected to give birth with more than 250 due in June — about nine months after 20,000 soldiers with the 101st Airborne...

Cpl. Jessiah Jameson sounded excited to see his wife and son after a year in Iraq. After he landed in Fort Campbell, Ky., last week, he was on the phone two or three times a day with his wife, Erin, who lives in Bellingham. They were excited to have him home for the holidays this year. But a week ago, he went out with friends to a Tennessee nightclub. No one, including his wife who expected him home on holiday leave next month, has seen or heard from him since he left the club. "He was supposed to be going...

The Patriot Guard Riders need help on the afternoon/evening of Wednesday July 12th for a PGR SPECIAL MISSION in Oak Grove, KY for the Ft. Campbell Eagle Remeberance Ceremony. There is a possibility that protestors may try to show up but PGR really wants to do a tremendously positive display at the front gate that will honor America's fallen heroes and they are requesting help.DETAILS FROM THE PGR WEBSITE: "Ft. Campbell and the 101st Airborne Division are holding the monthly Eagle Remembrance Ceremony to honor all 101st Airborne Division soldiers who have been killed in the previous month. July's...

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - A military judge ruled Friday that an Army private accused of shooting at his fellow soldiers during morning exercise is competent to stand trial. The judge, Lt. Col. Richard Anderson, said Pvt. Nicholas D. Mikel showed no signs of dementia and was coherent of his surroundings during a psychological evaluation last month. "In my interaction with Private Mikel, it appears to me that he has been able to understand my questions and what's going on," Anderson said during a hearing at Fort Campbell. Mikel, 21, faces three counts of attempted murder for shooting into a physical...

It's taken a while to download ... but I have a very well done 3-minute video clip of the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq. The video is very well done and professional grade in appearance. If anyone is interested in viewing this clip, send me a note with an email contact!

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — A Fort Campbell soldier charged with opening fire on his comrades at a shooting range last year was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday morning on more than two dozen attempted murder and assault-related charges. Pvt. Nicholas D. Mikel, 21, is accused of shooting with a handgun into a physical training formation at the Army post in October. No one was hurt. On Tuesday, Fort Campbell officials announced that the case was referred to a general court-martial, meaning Mikel is moving closer to facing the charges in a military court. Mikel, of DeBary, Fla., was assigned to...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- The government rested its case Thursday in the court-martial of an Army sergeant accused of attacking his fellow troops in Kuwait two years ago. Sgt. Hasan Akbar is charged two counts of murder three counts of attempted murder in connection with the March 2003 grenade and rifle attack on members of the 101st Airborne Division. Two officers were killed and 14 other people were injured in the attack. Government witnesses testified Thursday about crime scene photos and evidence, forensics and Akbar's diary. Akbar has written in a diary for years, but prosecutors are limited to more...

(FORT BRAGG) - A sergeant on trial for a grenade attack at an Army camp in the Kuwait desert days before the Iraq invasion wrote in his diary before he was deployed about killing fellow soldiers. An FBI agent read four passages from Sergeant Hasan Akbar's computer diary Thursday. Akbar wrote about making the choice to kill Iraqis, whom he called his Muslim brothers, or "my battle buddies." He said in one passage that if the Army left him at Fort Campbell and didn't try to humiliate him, he wouldn't do anything. But the passage ended by saying that if...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - An Army sergeant charged with killing two officers in a grenade attack in Kuwait two years ago is competent to stand trial, a military judge ruled Friday. Sgt. Hasan Akbar, 33, is scheduled to undergo a court-martial this month in a March 2003 attack on fellow members of the 101st Airborne Division days after the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Akbar is accused of stealing grenades from a Humvee and using them and a gun in the attack. The pretrial hearing was originally scheduled for Wednesday. But two hours before it was to begin,...

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - Staff Sgt. Joshua Olson called it his "Alive Day," the one-year anniversary of the day he lost his leg in Iraq. He marked the date by traveling from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington back to the Fort Campbell woods where he once instructed men as a squad leader. Instead of camouflage, he wore jeans and a T-shirt, and used crutches to get around on one leg. He wanted to get back to the comrades ---snip---