US Army to drop ‘US’ from name over past links to slavery

WASHINGTON—Since 1775, the United States has had an Army, and for most of those 244 years it has been called the “United States Army.”

But now the service will drop the words and initials from its title, calling itself simply “Army,” a radical rebranding campaign that some hope will distance Army from what a senior Army leader said was "a history not ref…