Story by Sgt. Marcus Fichtl | 24th Theater Public Affairs Support Element | 07.26.2015
Western Accord 15 participants walked cobblestone streets, ate at cafes lined along century old buildings, and crossed the bridges dotting the Dutch waterways. The bridges are why they came; the newly shared culture is why they stayed....
Story by Sgt. Marcus Fichtl | 24th Theater Public Affairs Support Element | 07.20.2015
No uniform was the same as the one next to it as more than a dozen nations stood side by side to mark the opening of Western Accord 2015 at Harskamp, The Netherlands, July 20....
Story by Sgt. Marcus Fichtl | 24th Theater Public Affairs Support Element | 04.02.2015
Walk upon a group of strangers and ask them what brought them together and they’ll all point to one person. The glue, the one they look up to when they’re down, because she’s up cheering....
Story by Sgt. Marcus Fichtl | 24th Theater Public Affairs Support Element | 01.06.2015
“Why risk everything for a cannon?” Col. Henry A. Knox, chief of artillery, Continental Army, asked his sergeant when he drug back a broken cannon across the Delaware River after the Battle of Trenton in 1777. “We wanted the victory to be complete,” replied the sergeant....
Story by Sgt. Marcus Fichtl | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 10.17.2014
I should have worn dress uniform. Seven in the morning, I was about to step into a high school for the first time since I stepped out of one twelve years ago. A good friend from college asked me to be a guest lecturer for the high school history classes she teaches at Rangeview High School in Aurora, Colorado – to talk to them about what I do. Or more accurately how images affect......
Story by Sgt. Matthew Waymire | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 09.08.2014
Soldiers of 2nd Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, volunteered to spend time with students of Centennial Elementary School in Colorado Springs, Colo., Sept. 8....
Story by Staff Sgt. Andrew Porch | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 06.09.2014
“To the Soldiers of the ‘Warhorse’ Brigade, it has been a great two years,” said Col. Omar Jones, outgoing commander, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. The 2nd ABCT, 4th Inf. Div., hosted its Change of Command Ceremony where Jones relinquished command of the brigade to Lt. Col. Andrew Koloski on Camp Buehring, Kuwait, June 9. As the brigade’s deployment to......
Story by Sgt. Marcus Fichtl | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 05.31.2014
Seventeen infantrymen earned the Expert Infantryman Badge during a badging ceremony at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, May 31.
