Story by Lance Cpl. Faeth Webb | Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES) | 05.04.2019
PONCE, Puerto Rico - Military service carries the promise of exciting opportunities to expand your horizons and meet people and cultures you otherwise never would have known. At Innovative Readiness Training Puerto Rico 2019, U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Pyne experienced that firsthand....
Story by Senior Master Sgt. Vincent De Groot | 185th Air Refueling Wing, Iowa Air National Guard | 04.29.2019
National Guard clinicians train in Puerto Rico providing no cost medical care
Story by Staff Sgt. Apryl Hall | Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency | 03.26.2019
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Two (CW2) Jose A. Colon Feliciano joined the Army in 2000. For the past two years, Colon has served as the officer in charge of the Research Investigation Team (RIT) at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) based out of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii....
Story by Jonelle Kimbrough | Office of the Chief, Army Reserve | 08.10.2018
Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico in the fall of 2017, but efforts to conserve the endangered palo de rosa tree at Fort Buchanan are still thriving - with the help of some Boy Scouts....
Story by Senior Airman Andrew Rivera | 139th Airlift Wing | 07.20.2018
ROSECRANS AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mo. - As Puerto Rico began recovering from the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Airman 1st Class Douglas Kruse graduated from technical school at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., on Oct. 3, 2017....
Story by Staff Sgt. Tegan Kucera | 126th Theater Public Affairs Support Element | 06.05.2018
When hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, it knocked out communications on the island for over a week. No one had a way of letting friends and family know how they fared, but one soldier helped to fix that....
Story by Staff Sgt. Tegan Kucera | 126th Theater Public Affairs Support Element | 06.05.2018
While Hurricane Maria decimated their island, the military police of the Puerto Rico National Guard stepped up to take care of the millions of citizens affected by the storm....
Story by Staff Sgt. Teresa Gallagher | Joint Base Langley-Eustis | 11.21.2017
On Sept. 20, 2017, Iker Urruchi was on a ship off the coast of Seattle, constantly checking for news updates on his phone when he could get a signal. Hurricane Maria had just made landfall on his hometown of Ponce, Puerto Rico, and the boatswain’s mate was trying to discover what was happening to his family....
