Story by Master Sgt. Kevin Wallace | 366th Fighter Wing | 05.22.2014
Commemorating sacrifices incomprehensible to many, red-blooded Americans in all corners of the world make their way to local cemeteries, memorials and hollowed grounds the final Monday of each May....
Story by Master Sgt. Kevin Wallace | 366th Fighter Wing | 05.13.2014
The night was bitter cold on the barren landscape as the platoon stealthily made its way across a dusty field. All but one of the Soldiers gazed hard through their Night Optical Devices, scanning the backdrop for insurgent presence. The final Soldier didn’t needs NODs to see, his nose alone could detect Taliban from across a field. That Soldier was Petty Officer 1st Class Valdo, a Navy......
Story by Master Sgt. Kevin Wallace | 366th Fighter Wing | 04.04.2013
For some, coming home means flag-waving crowds, cheers and parades. For others, there is no real coming home, just a struggle to adapt to who they've become and make sense of what they'd done....
Story by Master Sgt. Kevin Wallace | 366th Fighter Wing | 10.30.2012
Leadership and the military are inseparable. I’ve often heard a peacetime military can be sustained by strong managers, but great leaders are needed on the fields, skies and seas of war....
Story by Master Sgt. Kevin Wallace | 100th Air Refueling Wing | 07.25.2012
I want the nightmares to stop! That’s one thing I told Dr. Jeffery Peterson, a 48th Medical Operations Squadron clinical psychologist, when I went to see him last year. I admit the visit wasn’t voluntary. Just before leaving Afghanistan in May 2011, I had to accomplish an online post-deployment health assessment and was flagged by many of my responses. I had to see Peterson my third......
Story by Master Sgt. Kevin Wallace | 100th Air Refueling Wing | 07.25.2012
Like many, I was prepared to lay down my life for my country each time I shipped off to war. There were a few times when I genuinely believed the cost would be my life, but, sadly it’s turned out to be much more. The sacrifices paid in combat can’t be quantified in dollars or time, but are counted in tears shed by those who love and support us while we’re downrange or healing back at......
Story by Tech. Sgt. Kevin Wallace | 100th Air Refueling Wing | 01.16.2012
Italian mountain soldiers, known as Alpini, teamed with Afghan National Army to hold the front line on the eastern sector of Bala Murghab's southern perimeter....
Story by Tech. Sgt. Kevin Wallace | 100th Air Refueling Wing | 01.09.2012
At Combat Outpost Delorean, the southern-most coalition stronghold in the Bala Murghab Valley, soldiers typically fall asleep to the gentle serenade of explosions and awaken to hostility and enemy fire. They live this life so the Afghans residing in the valley above can live in relative peace and tranquility, when compared to other parts of Afghanistan....
