Chief Kent hails from Upstate New York where she attended SUNY Plattsburgh for two years prior to joining the Navy. She entered the Navy in 2003 as Cryptologic Technician Interpretive (CTI), and graduated, with honors, from Defense language Institute with an Associate’s Degree in Arabic. She earn...
A member of of Nawetsa Dancers from Zuni Pueblo performs a buffalo dance at the Native American Heritage Month Luncheon.
For example, while a Tree for Lori Committee Chair Sue Schlegel originated the idea for a memorial tree, garrison Commander Col. Don Gentry offered the suggestion th...
PFC Abbenhaus was awarded the Purple Heart.
Yeomen 3C Fred D. Burgess was serving aboard the U.S.S. Laffey at the battle of Okinawa on April 16, 1945 when the ship was badly damaged by enemy fire. Burgess was listed as Wounded in Action after the attack and died later that day.
From the memorial plaque aboard the U.S.S. Laffey:...
Holly J. McGeogh was only 19 years old when she was killed in Iraq.
She came from Taylor, Michigan, and wore the uniform of the United States Army with quiet pride. Assigned to Company A, 4th Forward Support Battalion, 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas, Specialist McGeogh dep...
First Name: Guy
Last Name: Byrd
Birthplace: Enterprise, AL, USA
Gender: Male
Branch: Army (1784 - present)
Home of Record: Enterprise, AL
Middle Name: Albert
Date of Birth: 18 September 1939
Date of...
On 27 March 1968, Captain Richard L. Whitteker and 2nd Lieutenant James L. Badley, both of the 480th Tactical Fighter Squadron, departed Danang Air Base on a strike mission into North Vietnam. Jim Badley did not return from his 85th mission - their F-4D PHANTOM went down in North Vietnam. Althou...
Justin's story is similar to many young Marines. He was an adventurous teenager who enlisted after graduating high school in 2003. A year later he was on the ground in Iraq as a combat engineer, arriving in Fallujah on September 11, 2004. He loved the Marine Corp. and the opportunity to serve hi...
Delivered Cheyenne 26/6/43; Kearney 12/7/43; Dow Field 16/7/43; Assigned 550BS/385BG [SG-K] Great Ashfield 21/7/43; detailed Bordeaux 16/9/43 with John Schley, Co-pilot: John Baum, Navigator: John Ellingsen, Bombardier: Earl Bates, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Walter Roth, Radio Operator: J...
For 68 years my family did not know the exact circumstances of my great uncle's death until I received the following information from the 29th Infantry Division on 13 January 2012:
"Private Baldwin joined Company E, 115th Infantry, on Sept. 4, 1944 as a replacement, in the middle of t...
April 3rd 2011 - I posted on your wall: Tim and I officially decided it's we miss Joe day today. Little did we know that April 15th 2011 this would become our new reality.
Joe -
As I write this message - it makes me cry. I cry because you're not here. I cry because a...
Airmen Missing From WWII Accounted For
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of servicemen, missing in action from World War II, have been accounted for and are being returned to their families for burial with full military hono...
Pvt. Barney Joe Boyd, Army Infantry, was killed in action in Korea January 14, 1951. He was 17 yrs old. He joined in June 1950 & was sent to Korea October 1950. He left his parents, J.C. & Ruth Boyd, 5 brothers & 4 siaters all from Gadsden, Tennessee, USA. Gone but lives forever in our hearts.
He was my brother and a Hero he gave his live to get other to the hospital. He was told he didn't have to go, because he only have two weeks left and a new baby daughter he had never seen. He said it was his job and he was going. He was a great person.