I was a Washington correspondent for the Arkansas Democrat when it was announced in 1987 that Fort Chaffee had been chosen as the U.S. Army's Joint Readiness Training Center. It was a big story for ...

Fifty years ago this month, the first Indochinese refugees arrived at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas. “When the United States evacuated its remaining personnel from Vietnam in the spring of 1975, it left in ...

BARLING -- Fort Chaffee Joint Maneuver Training Center officials will intermittently close Arkansas 96 that intersects the training center for up to 15 minutes at a time between the hours of 9 a.m.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A ceremony was held at the Arkansas State Capitol rotunda on Saturday to honor Arkansas’ part in world history that took place fifty years ago. At the end of the war in Vietnam, ...

The military history of our area is rich and is being revitalized in some places.One of those is the newly restored Fort Chaffee Barbershop Museum in Fort Smith. On March 25, 1958, Elvis Presley ...

Before dawn at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas National Guard soldiers gathered in the humid air, preparing for a mission that would take nearly 100 of them to Washington, D.C. This deployment, part of a ...

Israeli fighter jets have been seen armed with inexpensive glide bombs. Air superiority means it doesn't need to expend costly stand-off missiles. The Arkansas Army National Guard started its annual ...

FORT SMITH, Ark. — This summer marks 50 years since thousands of Vietnamese refugees were brought to the United States following the fall of Saigon. For many, that new life began at Fort Chaffee in ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the first Indochinese refugees arriving at Fort Chaffee. Considering that more than 50,000 refugees passed through Arkansas between May and December 1975, ...