Story by Lori Stewart | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 05.30.2025
On the morning of Jun. 6, 1944, four infantry divisions of Maj. Gen. J. Lawton Collins’ VII Corps stormed onto Utah Beach. Part of the landing force was the corps’ three-man Order of Battle Team #6, led by Lt. Alexander Blazevicius....
Story by Pfc. Jonathan Reyes | 4th Infantry Division Public Affairs Office | 06.14.2024
The 4th Infantry Division held its themed physical training event involving over 12,000 Ivy Soldiers from across the division and Fort Carson, June 14, 2024....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Malachi Lakey | Carrier Strike Group 12 | 11.18.2022
The Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG-60) conducts a historic port visit to its namesake region of France centered around a commemorative wreath-laying ceremony with French navy personnel and U.S. State Department staff....
Story by Sgt. Clara Harty | 4th Infantry Division Public Affairs Office | 05.23.2022
FORT CARSON, Colo - The secrets finally out! After keeping the Ivy Week kick-off event under the radar for the last few weeks, the senior leaders of the 4th Infantry Division and Fort Carson finally revealed the mysterious physical training event, May 23, 2022, near the Wilderness Range Complex on Fort Carson. Over 6,000 Soldiers and leaders from across the installation participated in a......
Story by Franklin Fisher | Fort Benning Public Affairs Office | 03.01.2019
FORT BENNING, Ga. – A new training battalion that will help the Maneuver Center of Excellence prepare trainees for service in the Infantry under the Army’s new, longer training period, was established here March 1 with a formal ceremony inside the Santiago Fitness Center....
Story by Airman 1st Class Alexis Schultz | Regional Media Center AFN Europe | 06.06.2017
NORMANDY REGION, France – Seventy-three years ago today, Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy marking the beginning of the largest multi-national amphibious landing and operational military airdrop in history....
Story by 1st Sgt. Brent Williams | 4th Infantry Division Public Affairs Office | 06.03.2017
MONTEBOURG, France—The commanding general of the 4th Infantry Division joined U.S. Army Soldiers deployed and serving in Europe to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of D-Day in Montebourg, France, June 3, 2017....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Crista Mary Mack | U.S. Army Europe and Africa | 06.06.2016
CARENTON, France (June 6, 2016) – Seventy-two years ago today, 156,000 Allied troops, 9,000 aircraft and nearly 5,000 ships launched the largest amphibious invasion in modern warfare. Now, 72 years later, the world has changed, but the 50 mile stretch of coastline known as Normandy remains in solidarity in welcome to the troops, both the veterans and today’s generation of Soldiers, who in......
