Story by Scott Sturkol | Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office | 09.01.2020
On April 3, 1946, Technician Fifth Grade Donald Whitaker boarded a train and left Camp McCoy after serving two years, six months, and seven days in the Army during World War II....
Story by Zachary Mott | 88th Readiness Division | 02.07.2020
NORTH BEND, Ohio – Amidst the blanket of new-fallen snow, community leaders, local civic organizations and members of the U.S. Army Reserve, as well as other members of the local community, gathered to honor the ninth president of the United States during a ceremony at his hillside tomb in North Bend, Ohio, Feb. 7, 2020....
Story by C.J. Lovelace | U.S. Army Medical Logistics Command | 02.03.2020
FORT DETRICK, Md. -- Despite most recently working as a budget analyst, Clay Beard has always preferred notes over numbers....
Story by Zachary Mott | 88th Readiness Division | 01.27.2018
Local politicians, service organizations, cub scouts, Soldiers and a menagerie of other guests gathered to celebrate William McKinley and to honor his service to the nation on the occasion of his 175th birthday at his Canton, Ohio-based memorial and museum, January 27....
Story by Zachary Mott | 88th Readiness Division | 11.18.2017
James Abram Garfield was only president for 200 days in the post-Civil War United States, however, he left behind a life filled with service that was honored during a ceremony at his Cleveland memorial November 18 which coincides with what would have been his 186th birthday....
Story by Lt. Col. Carol McClelland | U.S. Army South | 04.07.2016
Guatemalan and U.S. forces stood alongside each other in formations as part of a ceremony that officially opened a joint-foreign military humanitarian civic assistance exercise called Beyond the Horizon April 7 in San Marcos, Guatemala....
Story by Lisa Simunaci | U.S. Army Materiel Command | 03.02.2016
It takes less than a minute to play the 24 somber notes that honor the life of a departed service member. "But that minute, filled with anticipation and emotional distractions, is one of the most difficult jobs for an Army musician," said Staff Sgt. Jeremy Morrison, a trumpet player with the Army Materiel Command Band....
Story by JD Leipold | Defense Media Activity - Army Productions | 08.15.2014
Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene, the senior-most U.S. military officer to have been killed in a combat zone since the Vietnam War was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, yesterday....
