Story by Joe Lacdan | Defense Media Activity - Army Productions | 02.01.2023
To help the Army continually curb suicide numbers, Maj. Steve Von Jett teaches a segment of the Public Affairs Communications Strategy Course that focuses on prevention, response and identifying the factors that lead to suicide. He bases the curriculum on his own experience. After 21 years in the Army, Von Jett has seen both sides of the tragedy of suicide, as a survivor and as a friend of......
Story by Pamela Kulokas | Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall | 06.23.2022
Soldiers assigned to the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) took the day to focus on safety June 10 during the Safety Standdown on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall....
Story by Spc. Brandon Muniz | Joint Task Force-National Capital Region and the U.S. Army Military District of Washington | 04.27.2022
3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) Soldiers perform Twilight Tattoo for service member's friends and family, on Summerall Field, Joint Base Myer Henderson-Hall, Va., April 27, 2022. This performance is the final rehearsal of the hour-long pageant to showcase the rich history of the U.S. Army. (U.S. Army Video by Sgt. Brandon Muniz)...
Story by 1st Lt. Alexander Werden | 4th Infantry Division Public Affairs Office | 08.14.2021
The 4th Infantry Division's Annual Reunion was hosted in Arlington, Virginia from August 9th-14th, 2021. Veterans, family members, and current Soldiers and leadership from the 4th Infantry Division attended to honor the Division's outstanding contributions while called to serve in every major conflict from World War I through the present day....
Story by Abigail Meyer | Air Force District of Washington | 05.27.2021
More than 1,000 service members from across the National Capital Region placed more than 260,000 flags in front of each headstone at Arlington National Cemetery ahead of Memorial Day May 27, 2021....
Story by Joe Lacdan | Defense Media Activity - Army Productions | 12.01.2020
Color flushed into Sgt. Adam Dickmyer’s face as he breathed heavily. Through tinted sunglasses he sternly gazed at Spc. Ethan Morse, a Soldier of skinny build, on a muggy summer afternoon at Arlington National Cemetery in 2006....
Story by Joe Lacdan | Defense Media Activity - Army Productions | 09.09.2020
Chelsea Porterfield sang the ABCs softly as she rocked her 2 year old to sleep. In the quiet solitude of her son’s bedroom, her mind drifted and fixated on her husband’s .45 caliber pistol. In November 2018, the sergeant first class thought about suicide for the first time. Since she had accepted an assignment to serve as a platoon sergeant in the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old......
Story by Staff Sgt. Dalton Smith | 354th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 05.06.2019
PITTSBURGH, Pa. – Have you ever wanted to touch a canon? How about a robot? You can even see Soldiers throw a rifle with a sharp bayonet in the air and catch it single-handed!...
