Fort Campbell

Five soldiers stationed at the Ft. Campbell military base died after what was described as an inflight emergency. The U.S. Department of Defense said the crash was not a result of hostile fire.

A peaceful field on the side of a country highway in Trigg County now bears a sign marking it as the site of a tragedy.

Nine service members from Ft. Campbell have died in a crash involving two Army Black Hawk helicopters in western Kentucky. The crash happened in Trigg County around 10 p.m. Wednesday.

Nine people were killed in a crash involving two Army Black Hawk helicopters conducting a nighttime training exercise in Kentucky.

Every year on the anniversary of the Dec. 12, 1985, air crash that killed 248 soldiers, community members and Fort Campbell officials meet for a memorial service in Hopkinsville.

Soldiers stationed in Fort Campbell are preparing to deploy to Europe to replace forces ordered overseas earlier this year. Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby made the announcement on Friday. He said Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III ordered the deployment of around 10,500 personnel — including around 4,700 from Fort Campbell — in the coming months to replace Army units ordered to the region because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Several hundred soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division and Fort Campbell are deploying to Europe starting Tuesday night in anticipation of a potential Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine. The announcement

The Army’s first automated flight of an empty Black Hawk helicopter took place at Fort Campbell over the weekend and on Monday. The UH-60 aircraft was retrofitted with new technology developed by the Defense Department’s research arm, DARPA.

The hospital on post at Fort Campbell has been full of COVID patients, and most are unvaccinated. That’s despite a mandate for all soldiers. Active-duty...

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