Story by Sgt. Walter Lowell | 17th Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs Section | 02.28.2016
PERSIAN GULF – What does the U.S. Army do when it has to haul thousands of tons of equipment and vehicles across an ocean to operations in places like the Middle East? It calls upon its fleet of Logistical Support Vessels (LSV) and Landing Craft Utility vessels (LSUs). Each of the Army’s sturdy and rugged LSV’s has over 10,000 square feet of deck space and has the ability to carry......
Story by Sgt. Walter Lowell | 17th Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs Section | 12.31.2013
Army and Air Force National Guard service members join forces with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the Transportation Security Administration in a joint domestic training exercise to support civil authorities at key locations around the city and McCarran International Airport from Dec. 30, 2013, to the early morning of Jan. 1, 2014....
Story by Sgt. Walter Lowell | 17th Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs Section | 11.02.2013
As a 20-year-old Army Guardsman was about to leave his home with his family last August, Steven Thompson heard a banging at his door. He opened the door to find his neighbor in a panic. He could only discern one word from the frantic women: “Drowned.” The off-duty Guardsman sprang into action. Without hesitation, he darted to the next-door backyard where they had been having a birthday......
