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 | 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 Sgt. Michael Sword | 173rd Airborne Brigade | 10.26.2012
As American and coalition forces begin their drawdown in Afghanistan, they continue to support their Afghan partners.
Story by Sgt. Michael Sword | 173rd Airborne Brigade | 09.17.2012
As American forces continue to transition security responsibilities to Afghan National Security Forces, units deployed to Afghanistan are shifting their focus from providing security and combined combat operations to enabling and increasing the operational capabilities of the Afghans....
Story by Sgt. Michael Sword | 173rd Airborne Brigade | 09.09.2012
U.S. Army Spc. Ethan Wilson made the decision to join the Army when he was 14 years old. Five years ago, he was a sophomore in high school and his brother Thomas was deployed to Afghanistan with the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team. Today, Wilson finds himself at Combat Outpost McClain in Afghanistan’s Logar Province, a world away from the small town of Maurertown, Va., where he grew up......
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 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 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....
