As wildfires raged in Washington and northern Minnesota in August, two units from the Minnesota National were called into action.
The St. Cloud-based C Company, 2-211 General Support Aviation Battalion sent 10 Soldiers and a UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter with a hoist to Washington to provide medical evacuation support and aerial fire suppression to the firefighting efforts.
Since September 20, 2011, U.S. Armed Forces service members could not be discharged solely on the basis of sexual orientation any more. It has been ten years since the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy was repealed.
“I joined the Army thinking I would never be able to love anyone, never be able to marry, never be able to date, and never have sex; because of DADT,” said U.S. Army Capt. Forrest Jennings, a basic branch officer recruiter for...
She was driving south of Interstate 35E just south of St. Paul, Minnesota, on a Friday afternoon when out of the corner of her eye, something caught her attention. She looked over and saw that a sedan had driven up an embankment and wedged itself underneath the overpass. Then she saw a Soldier running up the embankment to the vehicle.
Sheri Bailey, a retired U.S. Air Force master sergeant of the Minnesota National Guard’s 133rd Airlift...
