Tag: FORT RUCKER

After years of concerns about the living conditions of soldiers at Fort Rucker, the U.S. Army is nearing completion of new, modern barracks buildings.

An aviation mishap left two Fort Rucker crew members of an Apache helicopter injured early Thursday.

A Fort Rucker soldier was sentenced to four and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of indecent recordings.

Fort Novosel was officially changed back to Fort Rucker in a ceremony at the U.S. Army Aviation Museum on Thursday.

Officials at Fort Rucker have already started the process of changing the name from "Fort Novosel" to Fort Rucker.

The name of Southeast Alabama’s U.S. Army base Fort Novosel will be changed back to Fort Rucker, according to President Donald Trump.

When the U.S. Department of Defense began renaming the nine Army installations named for Confederates soldiers, including Alabama’s Fort Rucker, it originally allocated $1 million to the effort. That figure quickly rose to $21 million, with the Army now expecting to pay $39 million for new signs, gates, patches and other changes. 

South Alabama’s U.S. Army base Fort Rucker, named after Confederate officer Edmund Rucker, is undergoing a name change that will become official in April.

The Jackson County, Florida Sheriff's Office recovered a body after a multi-agency search in the Chipola River. The person found dead is believed to have connections to an Alabama Army base.

On Monday, the Naming Commission released its first report, which focuses specifically on recommending new U.S. Army base names for bases currently named for Confederate officers to Congress. In total, the anticipated price tag is $21 million to rename nine bases.

There was a change of command at Fort Rucker on Thursday as Brig. Gen. Michael McCurry II took command of the Aviation Center of Excellence and Fort Rucker from Maj. Gen. Francis.