Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Huntington District | 06.12.2020
Twelve Prime Power Specialist (12P) of 3rd Power Station, Charlie Company, 249th Engineer Battalion are conducting a Circuit Breaker and Relay Maintenance (CBRM) mission at the Beckley Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Beckley, WV....
Story by Sgt. Erick Yates | KFOR Regional Command East | 11.23.2015
Students and teachers from a Kosovo language center received a visit from U.S. Army Soldiers deployed in support of NATO’s Kosovo Force peace support mission, as part of a community outreach project that also included a trip to a nearby bear sanctuary, Nov. 23, in Pristina, Kosovo....
Story by Sgt. Caitlin Brink | 4th Marine Corps District | 10.08.2015
“The President’s Own” United States Marine Band awed the crowd and inspired the next generation of musicians in Beckley, West Virginia, Sept. 16....
Story by Cpl. Michael Ito | Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES) | 07.17.2012
Pfc. Brady Lyons wanted to be a pilot when he joined the Marine Corps Reserve in July of 2011. After exploring his options a little bit more, he decided to go a different direction. Then, in February of 2012, when he graduated the Basic Combat Engineer Course and became qualified for his military occupational specialty, he decided that he had made the right decision....
Story by Cpl. Michael Ito | Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES) | 07.17.2012
Looking at the trees gently swaying in the wind atop the rolling hills of Appalachia, you would never know that something big is happening. But competing with the sound of the local birds’ chirps is the sound of picks swinging and heavy equipment moving tons of earth....
Story by Cpl. Bruno Bego | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 05.20.2011
Silent, lethal and commonly underestimated, malaria is one of the deadliest diseases causing sickness and death around the world, hospitalizing nearly 500,000,000 people and killing between 1.5 to 2.7 million people each year, according to the World Health Organization....