Story by Andrew Byrne | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District | 05.14.2020
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District is announcing that select facilities at district-managed sites will open Memorial Day weekend for the 2020 recreation season in alignment states’ guidelines....
Story by Angela Messinger | Army Chemical Materials Activity | 03.04.2019
“Safety rules are your best tools” is the safety phrase that pays as Blue Grass Chemical Activity (BGCA) puts the final touches on an already-stellar safety program, which was recently validated by the Department of Defense Safety Management Center of Excellence....
Story by Tech. Sgt. Armando A. Schwier-Morales | Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs | 01.18.2019
In a room full of family, friends, and mentors history was made with the affirmation of the words “So help me God.” U.S. Air Force Chaplain Candidate Saleha Jabeen was commissioned to the rank of second lieutenant in Chicago at the Catholic Theological Union by the Air Force chief of chaplains Dec. 18, 2019, becoming the first female Muslim chaplain in the Department of the Defense....
Story by Sgt. Bryan Nygaard | Marine Corps Recruiting Command | 10.04.2017
During the month of September, I had the privilege of representing the U.S. Marine Corps at Photoville, a photography exhibition hosted under the Brooklyn Bridge in the Dumbo neighborhood. Going on its sixth year, it is considered by the New York Times to be New York’s premier photo festival. Over the course of two weeks, thousands of people visited the exhibition, which was set up in a......
Story by Lt. Col. Elena O'Bryan | Colorado National Guard | 10.04.2016
The sounds of Colorado National Guard musket fire thundered across lonely Glorieta Pass. They quickly died. This time, there was no return fire....
Story by Sgt. Stephanie Hargett | 335th Signal Command (Theater) | 08.06.2016
EAST POINT, Ga. (Aug. 16, 2016)- – A group of historians, city officials and Civil War re-enactors, gathered here Aug. 6 for the dedication of a historical marker recognizing the sacrifice of those who fought in the Battle of Utoy Creek Aug. 4-7, 1864 during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War....
Story by Staff Sgt. Patrick Caldwell | 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team | 03.05.2016
Pfc. Bailey Frasch learned first-hand the considerable advantage that proper instruction on an M-2 .50 caliber machine gun can deliver on the battlefield during a training session at the Oregon Army National Guard Armory in Baker City, March 5....
Story by Jim Dresbach | Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall | 04.04.2015
On soil once owned by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was eventually transformed into a national cemetery, Civil War enthusiasts gathered to remember the 150th anniversary of Lee’s surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House....
