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The Department of the Army announced Friday that the Fort Bragg-based 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division will be in the summer rotation to Afghanistan.

The 3rd Brigade Combat Team will replace the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, as part of a regular rotation of forces in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, Army officials said.

During the past two sessions of Congress, Democrat Bobby Rush and Republican Richard Hudson introduced legislation together to improve workforce-training programs.

But this year, Rush altered the language of the bill and stripped out a key element: Hudson.

“He reintroduced it, and he’s added all this money to it and didn’t consult me,” the North Carolina Republican said.

Fort Bragg and congressional leaders say they are working to address issues with military housing

Pennalla Evans was at Fort Bragg for three days when she first called to report a problem in her military housing in May 2015.

Her air conditioner had stopped working in the humid spring heat.

Evans' home in the St. Mere Eglise neighborhood is one of 6,150 homes managed by Corvias, Fort Bragg's private military housing contractor.

SPRING LAKE — Mildred Pate said her late husband, Howard B. Pate Jr., would be honored to have the town post office named for him.
“He would probably think it’s not necessary,” she said, “but he would think it was wonderful, really.”

The post office at 225 N. Main St. is scheduled to be named for Pate, a town historian and former postmaster, in a ceremony scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday.