Photo by Gen. Rajagau Tuan Lante | United States Military Academy at West Point | 06.10.2019
WEST POINT, New York - Newly promoted 2nd Lts. Carleton Lee and Bethany Ballard. "Our family at the bar pinning ceremony: as I look at this picture, every man in this photo served in the Army is some capacity over the years, all but two retired from the Army after more than twenty years, three of the women were in the Army (two of my sisters and me—we all three graduated from West Point),......
Photo by Crista Mary Mack | 9th Mission Support Command | 06.06.2019
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - From left to right, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Carleton A. Lee, Col. Bethany L. Lee, son Kieran Lee, daughter Regan, and son Brennan pose together at the Lee dual retirement ceremony on the deck of the USS Missouri, where the treaty ending World War II in the Pacific was officially signed. (Photo by Crista Mary Mack, U.S. Army)...
Photo by Crista Mary Mack | 9th Mission Support Command | 06.06.2019
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - Two U.S. Army officers who began their own careers 27 years and one day prior, by commissioning one another, retired from their individual service to the nation just as they started it, together. Both Col. Bethany L. Lee, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1, 9th Mission Support Command, and Lt. Col. Carleton A. Lee, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command J6, became a part of Army history......
Photo by Crista Mary Mack | 9th Mission Support Command | 06.06.2019
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - Two U.S. Army officers who began their own careers 27 years and one day prior, by commissioning one another, retired from their individual service to the nation just as they started it, together. Both Col. Bethany L. Lee, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1, 9th Mission Support Command, and Lt. Col. Carleton A. Lee, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command J6, became a part of Army history......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Mary Junell | North Carolina National Guard | 01.24.2017
These wings were pinned to all three generations of the North Carolina National Guard Capt. Timothy Thomas' family who are Army Aviators, starting with his Grandfather. Thomas is the third in a line of Army Aviators in his family and the back of the wings show the dates of all three aviators' graduation dates from flight school. Thomas is the fourth generation to serve in the United States......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Christopher Thornbury | 22nd Air Refueling Wing | 06.25.2016
Staff Sgt. Austin Phillips, 22nd Maintenance Squadron wheel and tire section chief, right, poses with his grandfather, retired Staff Sgt. Raymond Hopper, in front of a KC-135 Stratotanker, June 25, 2016, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. Phillips is assigned to the KC-135, one of the same airframes his grandfather once worked on nearly 60 years before. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Mary Junell | North Carolina National Guard | 02.26.2016
Retired Lt. Col. William Thomas stands in front of his helicopter while serving in Vietnam between 1967 and 1968. His service inspired his son, Retired Brigadier General Kelly Thomas and grandson, Capt. Timothy Thomas, a North Carolina National Guardsman with 1st Battalion, 130th Aviation Regiment, to become Army Aviators. (Photo courtesy of the Thomas Family.)...
Photo by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar | 108th Training Command- Initial Entry Training | 12.16.2015
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. James Desjardin (left), of Cocoa Beach, Fla., embraces his son, Austin, after pinning the rank of second lieutenant on his shoulders at the fall Reserve Officers' Training Corps commissioning ceremony at Clemson University, Dec. 16, 2015. Second Lt. Desjardin will be stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, as an Army nurse for his first assignment. (U.S. Army photo by......
