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Considered a battlefield curiousity at one time, biometrics is now helping the Defense Department make its business practices more efficient, the director of the Army's Biometrics Identity Management Agency said.

As U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan close a difficult summer of fighting, the top commander there remains optimistic about the country's future and committed to the military mission underway.

Insurgents launched an unsuccessful attack on NATO-International Security Assistance Forces at Forward Operating Base Bostick, NATO officials said.

Military commissaries have not been affected by the massive Wright County Egg voluntary recall, Defense Commissary Agency food safety officials said.

The Air Reserve Personnel Center is converting personnel records to an electronic format for Air National Guardsmen and the Air Force Reserve.

Air Force Staff Sgt. Charles Newberry's decision to volunteer as a bone marrow donor recently saved the life of another servicemember's 2-year-old child.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged an additional $60 million in U.S. funding to help Pakistan battle record floods throughout the nation.

In her latest blog, AFPS' Elaine Wilson highlights Dr. Jill Biden's public service announcement that encourages all Americans to support military families.

U.S. forces continue to provide aid and aerial support to millions of Pakistanis hit hard by the monsoon floods, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.

As flooding continues to plague Pakistan, the U.S. Navy is providing helicopters from a detachment in Bahrain to carry supplies into the stricken country's Swat valley.

Beyond the mind-boggling personal toll of Pakistan's monsoon floods – with 20 million people affected and 4 million made homeless – there's also a strategic impact, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan said.

A fundamental shift will take place at the end of the month in the mission of U.S. forces in Iraq, a Pentagon official said.

Afghan and coalition forces continued to target Taliban leaders and members of other insurgent groups in recent operations in Afghanistan.

With the last full brigade of combat troops now out of Iraq and another 6,000 U.S. forces to leave by the month's end, the mission there continues to help the nation's security forces build capability and capacity.

Army spouses Spc. Joshua Fillingane and Spc. Andrea Fillingane ensure that the 5,200 soldiers on Joint Base Balad, Iraq, are qualified in combat lifesaving.

A mentor program is connecting survivors experiencing a recent loss of a military family member with someone further along in the recovery process.

Soldiers assigned to the last full U.S. combat brigade in Iraq said their final goodbyes before entering Kuwait and ending their deployment.

The United States continues to provide relief operations to Pakistan as troops rescue victims and provide aid throughout the flood-stricken country.

Defense Department officials released a letter the Pentagon's top lawyer sent to a man purported to be an attorney for the WikiLeaks website, which published tens of thousands of classified documents last month and is threatening to release 15,000 more.

Three of the four services met or exceeded their active duty recruiting goals for July, and the one that fell short did so intentionally.