Story by Lance Cpl. Ryan Mains | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 12.03.2014
“Dominant hand,” shouts an instructor as he grabs Lance Cpl. Cody Johannsen’s blouse and leads him to the fast-rope, then “weak hand over dominant hand!” Johannsen grasps the rope. Upon hearing the final command, “hook the foot, spin, and go,” Johannsen confidently steps off the ledge over 50 feet above the ground and begins to spiral down....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Stanley Maszczak | 807th Theater Medical Command | 10.29.2014
Depending on your relationship with your own relatives, you might think these brothers would be sick of each other by now. They aren’t. Two brothers: Both serving in the same U.S. Army Reserve unit for about 13 years; both lieutenant colonels in the 143rd Dental Company, out of Fort Douglas, Utah; both dentists; both traveling the world....
Story by 1st Lt. Christian Venhuizen | Joint Force Headquarters - Wyoming National Guard | 04.11.2011
In the three months 16-year-old Andrew MacKenzie has spent at the Wyoming Youth ChalleNGe Program, he’s earned his GED, enrolled in college, and went from wondering where he might work, to planning on becoming a nurse and a military officer....
Story by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 03.11.2011
If direct deposit existed 130 years ago today, history could have been changed. That’s when famed outlaw Jesse James robbed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers payroll being delivered by horseback just two-miles shy of reaching employees at Blue Water Camp in Alabama....
