Happy Friday! One of the biggest stories this week has been about how the Army announced it was slashing the number of training courses that soldiers are required to take each year from 27 to 16.

The Army will slash nearly one dozen mandatory training programs for its soldiers in the summer as it looks to streamline their time to focus on combat readiness tasks, service officials said.

Sgt. Brenden Lopez uses a computer on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, for a four-session online intervention designed to improve connection with and promote the care of one’s body.

The U.S. Army has identified Staff Sgt. Troy S. Knutson-Collins as the fourth soldier who died during a training exercise in Lithuania. The three other soldiers who died in the incident were Jose ...