Category: Military

Student pilots in parachute training on Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, in 1989.

“Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.”

William Crawford, a Medal of Honor recipient turned janitor, was the embodiment of the American hero.

Nearly 40 years later, Pegasus Marines are serving their country in another war under the same aircraft group, Marine Aircraft Group 16, with the same aircraft that were presented to them during the Vietnam War two years after their initial landing — the CH-53D Sea Stallion.

For the holiday season, Airmen of the Maryland Air National Guard adopted a local military family to support and delivered gifts for other families in the community around Warfield Air National Guard Base.

Members of the 730th Air Mobility Squadron teamed with the base Child and Youth Centers to host a squadron immersion tour from Dec. 19-20, to educate children of the base community on how the unit contributes to the airlift mission across the region.

On the evening of December 15, Staff Sgt. Dante Davis was stuck in traffic, while heading home to Boston, when he spotted an overturned SUV against the Interstate-93 South guardrail in Manchester.

Approximately 250 new Soldiers pass through the 128th Aviation Training Brigades aircraft electrician ‘15F’ military occupational specialty course each year, providing the Army a continuous supply of Soldiers to keep its helicopters airborne and operational.

Total team effort – a common phrase in the Army and one the 405th Army Field Support Brigade’s Africa Battalion helped flawlessly demonstrate recently at Leghorn Army Depot in Livorno.

Yokota Air Base leadership, the Fussa City Police Department and members of the on and off-base communities participated in a joint crime prevention patrol in Fussa, Japan

The forward presence of USS Shoup enhances the national security of the United States and improves its ability to protect strategic interests.

U.S. and foreign paratroopers jump off a C-130 Hercules from Ramstein at the Alzey Drop Zone