Story by Eric Pilgrim | Fort Knox | 09.01.2020
Sylvester Burg spent a relatively quiet Sunday in his Radcliff home Aug. 30, celebrating his 102nd birthday with close family members. Not so quiet on Monday. Burg’s family wheeled him to the sidewalk shortly after lunch under the guise of getting his picture taken when several members of the local and Fort Knox communities suddenly paraded down his street in front of his house to wish him a......
Story by Maria Christina Yager | Blanchfield Army Community Hospital | 08.19.2020
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- As the nation celebrates Women's Equality Day, August 26, Blanchfield Army Community Hospital on Fort Campbell, Kentucky stands as a lasting tribute to a trailblazer in Army Medicine and public service....
Story by Public Affairs Office | Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport | 03.21.2019
A search for a woman named Fascination has turned into a fascination for Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport software developer Brandon Massey, a resident of Newport, Rhode Island. A University of Rhode graduate who was hired in 2004 by NUWC Newport’s Information Technology Division, Massey finds work-life balance in researching and documenting his family’s history ......
Story by Tech. Sgt. Dan Heaton | 127th Wing | 10.25.2018
The 32nd Division -- made up of National Guard Citizen-Soldiers from Wisconsin & Michigan -- was the sixth American division sent to France and entered combat in the trenches at Alsace in May 1918 — the first American troops to fight on German soil. In July, the division — as part of the Allied counterattack during the Second Battle of the Marne — advanced 19 kilometers before capturing......
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 10.16.2018
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- The last American Soldier to die in World War I-and the last Soldier of any of the warring powers to die during the war-was a member of the 313th Infantry Regiment, made up of draftee Soldiers from Baltimore Maryland. No one really knows what possessed Sgt. Henry Gunther to charge a German outpost near Chaumont-devant- Damvillers at 10:59 a.m. on the morning on......
Story by Col. Richard Goldenberg | New York National Guard | 05.22.2018
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – New York’s State Fairgrounds, some four miles outside of Syracuse, are 3,587 miles away from the trenches that cut across France during World War I, but in 1917 and 1918, the grounds were part of America’s war on the German Empire....
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 04.18.2018
As April 1918 became May, the 27,000 Soldiers of the New York National Guard’s 27th Division left Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina and boarded trains and ships heading for France where World War I was raging. The 27th Division, which included all but two regiments of the New York National Guard, left New York in August and September 1917. There had been a massive parade down Fifth Avenue......
Story by Airman 1st Class Monica Roybal | Joint Base Langley-Eustis | 02.13.2018
McKinley Price, Newport News, Va. mayor, presented U.S. Army Col. Ralph L. Clayton III, 733rd Mission Support Group commander, and U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Eric J. Vidal, 733rd MSG command sergeant major, with a City Council Resolution of Recognition at Newport News City Council Chambers in Newport News, Feb. 13, 2018....
