Fort Irwin

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel lauded training efforts at the Army’s National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California.

The move is to allow it time to rebuild unit cohesion, a problem identified in the independent review of Fort Hood.

Last year, Army leaders placed a greater emphasis on sending more brigade combat teams to decisive-action rotations at NTC.

"Why can't we have a waterpark up in Wainwright?" asked the general in charge of Army installations.

What a pair of civilian women learned on their special ops mission in the desert.

NTC is designed to push combat brigades to their limits and expose tactical weaknesses to improve combat proficiency.

For nearly four decades, combat units have painted their insignias on boulders near the road into Fort Irwin.

"This place is designed to defeat us."

"Take your garbage and shop off post if you can’t pick up after yourself."

The days of sitting in a military treatment facility pharmacy waiting area for hours at a time may be over soon.