Story by Staff Sgt. Garrett Wake | 152nd Airlift Wing | 10.09.2018
BOULDER CITY — Funerals honor the deceased and bring solace to the living. For military veterans, funerals can include military honors, upon family request. But what if a person’s remains are left unclaimed or there is no family?...
Courtesy Story | Virgin Islands National Guard State Public Affairs Office | 03.16.2018
VIRGIN ISLANDS -- The Virgin Islands Office of Veterans Affairs, with support from the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs, hosted a clinic for St. Croix veterans on Mar. 15 at the Estate Bethlehem Military Compound. Hundreds of local veterans, retirees along with Soldiers, and Airmen from the Virgin Islands National Guard availed themselves to the Veterans Claims Clinic provided by a team......
Story by Sgt. P. Behringer | 49th Public Affairs Detachment | 01.08.2018
I felt the back of my head connect with wood as my brain rocked inside of my skull. My perpetually graceless body went limp as my backside fell to meet the sand below. “I hit my head,” said a voice coming from my sweaty face. On July 28, 2017, I had woken up a normal version of myself, but I was soon headed down a lengthier path, filled with more obstacles than......
Story by Spc. Joshua Petke | 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division Public Affairs | 12.03.2016
Soldiers of 703rd Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division joined veterans at the American Legion in Hinesville, Georgia, Dec. 3 for a 75th Pearl Harbor Remembrance Ceremony....
Story by Jason Tudor | Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center | 06.28.2016
Major League Baseball umpire Jerry Layne has been behind the dish for some of baseball’s greatest moments. The Barry Bonds’ record-breaking 71st home run. Fernando Valenzuela’s eye rolling no-hitter in 1990. Two World Series. Three All-Star Games....
Story by Sgt. James Smith | 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit | 05.05.2015
U.S. Marines with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) from Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and U.S. Navy Sailors with the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) welcomed members of Disabled American Veterans Chapter 133 during a tour aboard the Wasp as part of Fleet Week 2015 in Port Everglades., Florida, May 5....
Story by Julia LeDoux | Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall | 11.13.2014
America’s veterans past and present were saluted Nov. 11 during the National Veterans Day Observance at Arlington National Cemetery....
Story by Lance Cpl. Andrea Cleopatra Dickerson | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 05.27.2014
As he flew into Cherry Point for the 2014 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show in “Panchito,” a B-25 Mitchell bomber, retired Brig. Gen. George Bartlett felt a sense of nostalgia come over him....
