Soldier supports Boy Scouts at 100th Jamboree gathering
FORT A.P. HILL, Va., August 1, 2010 – It only happens for one week every four years. Tens of thousands of Boy Scouts from around America descend on a sleepy base in Virginia to earn merit badges, collect and trade patches and to connect with other scouts. The son of a Seymour, Ind., man was on site at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree to help the scouts accomplish these goals...
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Airman provides humanitarian relief in Panama jungle
METETI, Panama, August 1, 2010 – Deep within one of the most pristine and untouched jungles in the world, where indigenous tribes scrape by with whatever the land around them provides, the son of a Lompoc, Calif., couple is making a difference. In an area so remote only naturalists, botanists, and archeologists dare venture within its 10,000 square miles of raw wilderness, he is helping improve a quality of life for people living in conditions that most Americans will never see or experience...
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Air Force ROTC cadet prepares for Air Force career
at rigorous Maxwell AFB training course
MAXWELL AFB, Ala., July 24, 2010 – For the daughter of a Colorado Springs, Colo., couple, summer vacation means arising at four a.m. each day to start a rigorous, daily routine that most sophomore and junior college students would cringe at the thought of having to do...
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Soldier seeks elite 'Special Forces' title
at John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center & School
FORT BRAGG, N.C., July 2, 2010 – The long road to becoming a part of the most elite fighting unit within the United States Army starts at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School here, where soldiers, like the son of a Honesdale, Pa., couple, is working his way toward becoming a part of the Special Forces...
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Soldier helps secure nation's border against threats
while enduring desert climate and 100-degree temps
YUMA, Ariz., June 26, 2010 – For the son of a Poughkeepsie couple, helping secure our nation’s borders against potential threats meant enduring 12-hour work days, in desert like conditions where dust and sandstorms were common and the thermometer soared above 100 every day...
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Former Air Force officer competes in Paralymic sports
at inaugural 'Warrior Games' in Colorado
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 14, 2010 – The son of a Wilmington, Del., man competed with nearly 200 other injured service members in the inaugural Warrior Games at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, Colorado Springs, Colo...
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Competitors challenge their limits
for chance to be 'best of the best'
FORT BENNING, GA., May 10, 2010 – Part of being a Ranger in the United States Army is accepting the challenge to be the best. When the opportunity of being the best of the best came in the form of an Army competition, the challenge was too good to pass up for the son of a Chanhassen, Minn., man...
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Airmen and soldiers train for contingency operations
during exercise Joint Forcible Entry
POPE AIR FORCE BASE, N.C., April 30, 2010 –
Even in the military, moving tons of equipment and personnel to places like Haiti and Chile to secure an airfield for contingency operations is no easy task. However, for the son of a Brownsville couple, learning some of the tricks of the trade has made the job a lot easier...
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Combat engineers endure challenges of 'Best Sapper'
FORT LEONARD WOOD , Mo., April 23, 2010 – Jumping out of the back of a helicopter and into icy water at dawn with 90 pounds of gear for a swim across a pond is not a normal way to start the day. But for the son of an Englewood, Colo., couple, it was just a small part of one of the most intense 52 hours of his life...
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Airman performs critical defense role in 'Big Sky Country'
MALMSTROM AIR FORCE BASE, Mont., April 22, 2010 – They call this part of Montana “Big Sky country,” with rolling plains, few trees and lots of, well, sky. It’s also where the son of a Gresham, Ore., couple calls home, with a job of protecting the U.S. in an area slightly larger than the state of Maryland...
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Air Force instructor provides critical training
at Department of Defense Fire Academy
GOODFELLOW AIR FORCE BASE, Texas, April 16, 2010 – Most boys dream of being a fireman at some point in their young lives. The hat, the truck, the noise, the excitement, the danger. It all adds up to the ultimate job full of adventure and heroics. For those boys and girls who grow up still wanting to fulfill those dreams, they can thank the son of a Caldwell, Texas, man for turning them into reality...
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Airman provides medical support
for Chile earthquake victims
ANGOL , Chile, April 10, 2010 – When an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile and severely damaged the regional hospital in Angol, the daughter of a Tamuning, Guam, woman stepped up to provide the support needed to continue providing medical aid to the local people.
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Air Force officer works with South Korean military
during exercises Key Resolve/Foal Eagle
SEOUL, South Korea, March 13, 2010-- For the son of a Demopolis woman, staying combat ready at his base on the south side of the Korean DMZ is an everyday event. But during a two-week period, recently, he and other forces here took that training to a completely new level...
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U.S. Military personnel vie for honors
at 35th Culinary Arts Competition
FORT LEE , Va., March 12, 2010 – The son of a Queens, N.Y., couple recently traded his Kevlar helmet for a chefs hat during one of the largest culinary competitions of its kind in the United States...
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Soldier trains with allies during exercise Cobra Gold
UTAPAO, Thailand, February 18, 2010 – For the daughter of a Story City, IA, woman, being an ambassador for peace in a country known for its spicy cuisine, magnificent colorful temples, and lush jungles where deadly cobra snakes are king, was quite an experience recently...
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Service members provide Haiti round-the-clock help
FT BRAGG , N.C., January 29, 2010 – When a magnitude 7.0 earthquake devastated the island nation of Haiti, it was the son of a Valparaiso, Ind., man who stepped in to help rush medical supplies, food and water to the region...
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Military 'hero' honored at Army All-American Bowl
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, January 9, 2010 – Tammy Bruch never joined the Army with thoughts of being labeled a hero. As a military police officer, and an Army Reserve captain, she just wanted to do the best job she knew how...
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Air National Guard airman brings modern medicine
to Central Africa villages during 'Natural Fire 10'
KITGUM, Uganda, October 20, 2009 – When the son of a Seabring, Fla., couple stepped onto the orange-red soil of this Central African nation, he could have been walking into a National Geographic special presentation...
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Exercise Vibrant Response tests airman's' skills
in simulated terrorist nuclear attack scenario
CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind., 19, October 11, 2009 - “There’s just been a terrorist attack of a 10-ton nuclear device explosion in downtown Indianapolis, and the surviving town on the outskirts needs immediate emergency aid response,” was the call that jolted the daughter of a Hartland man into action.
Luckily for Air Force Tech. Sgt. Melanie D. Berry, daughter of William J. Schueler Jr. of Hartland, the call wasn’t for a real terrorist attack, but for a federal emergency response exercise called “Vibrant Response”...
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Airman tests his skill and endurance
in five-event "Wilderness Challenge"
FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va., October 11, 2009 - For the son of a Blaine, Minn., couple, the competition was a strenuous test of endurance, teamwork and skill that took him, and 215 other men and women representing all military services and the U.S. Coast Guard, through more than 50 miles of rugged West Virginia mountains and white-water rapids...
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Soldier tests stamina and MP skills
at grueling "Warfighter Challenge"
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo., September 19, 2009 – As he staggered across the finish line after a 15-mile endurance march with flak vest, helmet, rifle and a nearly 60-pound backpack, the son of a Cypress, Calif., couple had the feeling of sheer relief...
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Joint Task Force-East Soldier
trains Romanian and Bulgarian allies
MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU AIR BASE, Romania, September 4, 2009 – Nearly 40 years ago, murals depicting the glory of the Soviet military were freshly painted at the Novo Selo training area in Bulgaria. Today, nearly 20 years after the end of the Cold War they are flaking, subdued images of a bygone era. Now, artificial thunder echoes through the hills as a Bulgarian M1117 Guardian armored security vehicle runs the training course, mowing down targets with fire from its mounted heavy machine gun...
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Joint Multinational Readiness Center Soldier
acts as enemy insurgent to train deploying
HOHENFELS, Germany, August 29, 2009 - As American soldiers enter a village here, they are approached by bearded men with turbans and women with burqas covering their faces. The soldiers do not know who is friend or who is foe...
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Airman provides medical care in Guyana
during humanitarian exercise New Horizon
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 13, 2009 – Not many people in this remote South American country get a reception like the daughter of an Azle woman. People paddle miles upriver, hike through overgrown jungle trails and pile into cramped, overcrowded buses to get to her...
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Airman cares for casualties with dignity, honor, respect
DOVER AFB , Del., July 10, 2009 – The painful task of identifying the remains, scanning for unexploded ordnances, performing an autopsy, and preparing each service member for burial begins at Dover Air Force base with the military members who work at the Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs...
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Military honored by Tiger Woods
at Earl Woods Memorial Pro-Am Golf Tournament
BETHESDA, Md., July 4, 2009 – Golfing great Tiger Woods spent the week leading up to our nation’s birthday honoring those men and women serving in the military during the Earl Woods Memorial Pro-Am golf tournament at the Congressional Country Club...
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Airman trains over Alaskan wilderness
in 'Northern Edge' exercise
ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska, June 27, 2009 – When the son of a Mineral couple steps outside, inhaling crisp air on a base surrounded by mountains and pristine wilderness in America’s “last frontier,” he is far more likely to run into a bear or moose than an enemy of the United States...
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Airman tests first responder skills in Exercise Hydra
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., June 19, 2009 – Whether delivering critical food supplies to refugees in Darfur, helping with evacuation efforts following Hurricane Ike or helping British troops transition out of Basra, the son of a Sparta, Wis., couple, and his unit, are quickly becoming the 9-1-1 first responders for disasters and emergencies around the world...
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Soldier observes 65th commemoration of D-Day
NORMANDY, France, June 6, 2009 – Senior leaders often call the son of a Bartlesville couple, and those who serve with him, a part of the next “greatest generation.” Army Sgt. William A. Aubrey, son of Charles and Darlene Aubrey, Melrose Drive, Bartlesville, recently traveled to now silenced battlefields with names like Omaha and Utah Beaches to observe the 65th Commemoration of D-Day...
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Navy reservist provides care for Panamanians
during Continuing Promise 2009
USNS COMFORT, Colon, Panama, June 2, 2009 – When most people leave their ship at this port city on the tiny ismuth that separates the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, they are normally met by a local greeter, scenic tours and a cold tropical drink. For the daughter of a Pflugerville man, the scene awaiting her was much more tragic...
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Marine trains at DoD canine training center
LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas, May 20, 2009 – It can be a terrifying thing to see a dog streaking toward you across a field, fast and low to the ground, lips peeled back from a mouth filled with huge white teeth. But for the son of an Altoona couple, all he can think about, as the 80-pound animal leaps toward his arm, is making sure the dog gets a good bite...
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Combat engineer competes for 'Best Sapper' honors
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo., April 23 , 2009 – He was exhausted. He hadn’t slept in two days and was having problems focusing on the task at hand. He was hungry. He couldn’t remember his last meal. It was non-stop action. Each task seemed more excruciating than the last...
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Officer teaches leaders to fight and lead
at elite Army Ranger School
FORT BENNING, Ga., April 8, 2009 – Teaching a baby to “crawl, walk, and run” is a task most of us will tackle at some point in our lives. But teaching the Army’s best soldiers to “crawl, walk, and run” is a challenge most of us will never experience...
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Air Force Military Training Instructor molds recruits
at expanded Air Force Basic Military Training
LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas, March 17, 2009 – Rising at 3 a.m. is a small sacrifice for the son of a Palmdale woman – the future of the Air Force awaits him...
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Airman key to nuclear airlift mission success
MCCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash., March 6, 2009 – For the son of a Lutz woman, there is no such thing as making a mistake. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Nicholas Thompson, son of Susan M. Thompson, Cloverdale Court, Lutz, and the late Jimmy Ray Thompson, is one of a small group of Air Force men and women responsible for the safety, security and reliability of a part of the nation’s nuclear arsenal, a job that leaves no room for error...
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Army Guardsman supports inaugural ceremonies
as Armed Forces Inaugural Committee member
WASHINGTON D.C., 19 January, 2009 – When President Obama takes the constitutional oath of office in front of what is expected to be one of the largest crowds ever, the son of a Signal Mountain man will be smiling. For Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Nathan R. Cox, son of E. Neal Cox of Sawyer Road, Signal Mountain, weeks of training and coordination, along with many early morning and late night rehearsals in rainy, frigid weather, has paid off in helping to make this historical inauguration a huge success...
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Army Reservist honored at Army All-American Bowl
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, 3 January, 2009 – When the son of an Albemarle woman was serving his country in Iraq, where he had the important task of training the Iraqi National Police, the last thing on his mind was getting an ovation from a crowd of more than 30,000 people...
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