The silhouette of a soldier is formed as the sun goes down at Camp McGregor, New Mexico. (Spc. Jacqueline Robinson/New Jersey National Guard) A new U.S. Army directive orders commanders to act within ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 250,000 criminal cases have been opened into soldiers' absence without leave (AWOL) and desertion since the beginning of ...

PHOENIX — The Pentagon has ordered an Army soldier temporarily housed in Maricopa County's "tent city" jail for being absent without leave returned to military custody, Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Friday.

The Army wants its leaders to act more quickly when a soldier does not report for duty and cannot be found, according to a new directive from the service’s top civilian. Commanders must report a ...

In all, according to the State Bureau of Investigation, some 107,000 desertion and AWOL cases have been probed into MOSCOW, May 30. /TASS/. Around 17,000 Ukrainian soldiers desert their army units ...

Every December, tens of thousands of servicemembers take authorized holiday leave. The authority for that leave comes from Department of Defense Instruction 1327.06, which governs military leave and ...

MOSCOW, August 3. /TASS/. Nearly 400,000 AWOL (absent without leave) and desertion cases have been reported in the Ukrainian army, a Ukrainian lawmaker said. "We see failures on the frontline. We see ...