Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz | 02.11.2025
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Hello again! I’m Gabrielle Dillard, a supply technician with U.S. Army Medical Logistics Command Europe and volunteer contributor for U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz. Some days, I trade logistics for storytelling, covering events in Kaiserslautern and Baumholder Military Community to bring you a fresh look at our military community across the garrison’s......
Story by Kayla Cosby | Fort Campbell Public Affairs Office | 08.29.2023
The Fort Campbell Bastogne Teen Center is the second in the Defense Department to receive one of five $50,000 van grants as participants in the Bridgestone/Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) “Driving Great Futures” program. U.S. Army Garrison Fort Campbell Commander Col. Christopher Midberry took the opportunity during the event to highlight the accomplishments of Xavier Branch, a member......
Story by Jedhel Somera | Fort Campbell Public Affairs Office | 06.29.2023
Xavier Branch, a student at the Fort Campbell Bastogne Teen Center, achieved the prestigious title of Midwest Military Youth of the Year regional winner in the Boys & Girls Club of America's regional competition held in Chicago in June. The Boys & Girls Club of America's Military Youth of the Year program recognizes exceptional teenagers who actively participate in local community youth......
Story by G. Anthonie Riis | Fort Knox | 03.20.2020
Fort Knox’s Devers Middle School and Teen Center has done it again. Nichole Tatu, a 17-year-old junior at Fort Knox Middle High School, earned a college scholarship and took home the top prize at the 2020 Kentucky State Military Youth of the Year competition March 11. As a member of the Boys & Girls Club of America at Devers, Tatu has become the seventh winner in as many years and could......
Story by Airman 1st Class Isaiah Soliz | 325th Fighter Wing | 04.03.2018
The Department of Defense and the Boys & Girls Club of America partnered in 2003 to sponsor the Military Youth of the Year competition. The competition recognizes a club member who has served on a U.S. military installation and has overcome enormous odds and demonstrated exceptional character and achieved extraordinary accomplishments....
Story by Sgt. Julieanne Muckey | 129th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 04.05.2013
At first glance, it might seem like the Junior Enlisted Council is a group of Soldiers trying to pull a fast one over their sergeants. The JEC, 6th Battalion, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), is a proactive council that represents the voice of more than 400 Soldiers from private to staff sergeant. Their mission is to inform senior-enlisted leaders on......