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News StoriesOperation home front: Let the reintegration process begin!
Many deployed soldiers look forward to the day they can descend the steps of an aircraft and take their first steps on U.S. soil. Task Force Thunder’s missions in Afghanistan are winding down, and that day, beginning their reintegration into Army life at Fort Campbell, is fast approaching.
11.3.11 Story by Spc. Nicole Newton
 Keeping tradition alive: NCO passes Ranger heritage on
In 1989, Danny Gregory was led into a field of rocks in Georgia. “There was a rock out there that was about 80 pounds and 12 inches in diameter or so; just a big rock,” he said.
That rock became Gregory’s ST-1, and he carried it in his rucksack the first 75 miles he marched with the 3rd Ranger Battalion.
11.3.11 Story by Spc. Nicole Newton
 Mission essential movements: Five FOBs, two soldiers, and one old school way of getting things done
Her mission was up in the air from the get go. She changed military occupation specialties, changed platoons, and changed roles multiple times, and that was all before leaving Nashville, Tenn., for the upcoming mission in Afghanistan.
11.3.11 Story by Spc. Nicole Newton
 Growing local governments
Safety is created by ownership of action. Members of the International Security Assistance Forces are helping local Afghan districts to do just that by opening lines of communication between local leaders.
10.29.11 Story by Staff Sgt. Richard Lutz
 Sending a strong signal
The schedule is no longer one weekend a month for deployed National Guard soldiers upon arrival in theater and attachment to their active duty counterparts. Finding themselves with a different schedule, organized into teams spread across Afghanistan and Iraq, members of the 230th Signal Company take it all in stride and keep their close knit group connected through technology.
10.24.11 Story by Staff Sgt. Richard Lutz
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Recent Video Hockey loves Heroes
When you think of hockey, you might normally think of uniform-ripping fights on the ice, but the Nashville Predators have a softer side. The Predators organization has long been supporters of the United States military with programs like Tickets for Troops, Military Monday, the Military Salute, and half-price ticket promotions.
Taken: 03.15.2011
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