Courtesy Audio | Joint Base Lewis-McChord - Enterprise Multimedia Center (EMC) | 06.04.2012
Sgt. Laura Reid from San Juan, Texas talks to a KURV-AM reporter in Edinburg, Texas about competing in the Best Warrior Competition....
Audio by Airman Donald Moreland | AFN Afghanistan | 06.03.2012
A Chinook Helicopter crew with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade conducts a sling load recovery of a damaged helicopter at a location near Kandahar. Having cargo slingloaded by helicopter is a usual mission task out on the battlefield. However, a helicopter slingloading a helicopter is a rare occurrence....
Audio by Rick Scavetta | U.S. European Command | 06.03.2012
Yves Tariel, 74, was just 7 years old when U.S. Army Air Corps bombs destroyed his town, Lisiieux, France, on the evening of June 6, 1944, to help Allied troops fight the German 12th SS Panzer Division. Tariel tells who he later met one of the pilots on that bombing run and found a C-47 Sky Train for the museum at Sainte-Mère-Eglise....
Audio by Rick Scavetta | U.S. European Command | 06.03.2012
Near the La Fiere bridge, one World War II veteran hugged Staff Sgt. Rachel Medley, 34, of Eureka, Calif., who serves with the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights. Meeting paratroopers from WWII is humbling, she said....
Audio by Rick Scavetta | U.S. European Command | 06.03.2012
During the 68th anniversary of D-Day, special operations troops stationed in Europe performed a High-Altitude Low-Opening demonstration at Mont Saint Michel in France....
Audio by Rick Scavetta | U.S. European Command | 06.03.2012
Ellan Levitsky Orkin and her sister Dorothy joined the U.S. Army as nurses during World War II, under the condition that they could stay together. In France, they wrote this song. They only sing it for a special few these days....
Audio by Rick Scavetta | U.S. European Command | 06.03.2012
Ellan Levitsky Orkin, 92, and her sister Dorothy, 95 joined the U.S. Army as nurses during World War II, under the condition that they could stay together. They served in France. Hear more of their story......
Audio by Rick Scavetta | U.S. European Command | 06.03.2012
Milt Staley, 93, of Redding, Calif., waded though chest deep surf onto Utah Beach with the 4th Infantry Division that afternoon and later occupied foxholes dug by 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers. Afterward, Staley fought with the 90th Infantry Division and was wounded in combat. But coming back to France is not about reliving the horrors of war, he said. He first returned in 2011 and made......
