With Veterans Day just around the corner, we wanted to be sure to let all of our veterans know how much we love, appreciate and respect them for all that they have done for our Country. Businesses and attractions everywhere want our veterans to know just how much they appreciate them by offering discounted and free deals leading up to and on Veterans Day. Veterans Day started … [Read more...]
Guardsmen Explain MRE-Style Emergency Meals to NYC’S Ethnic Communities
November 4, 2012 By Eric Durr, New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs The thousands of meals being handed out by FEMA to NYC residents following Hurricane Sandy are pretty familiar to the New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen distributing the meals. Inside the boxes being handed out are Meals, Ready to Eat, or MRE-style entrees and the chemical heater … [Read more...]
Marine Offers His Home and Car to Fellow Marines After Devastation of Sandy
Marines have a saying amongst each other, “We take care of our own.” Normally this saying is limited to small acts of kindness, such as lending them a few dollars to get a haircut or helping them move from one barracks room to another. But sometimes they go out of their way to help one another in unexpected ways. Hurricane Sandy ripped through New York killing … [Read more...]
Along with Identical DNA, Two Trainees Also Share MOS and Platoon
November 5, 2012 By Cheryl Rodewig FORT BENNING, Ga.-- Pfc. Austin and Pfc. Zachary Conn have done everything together since the day they were born: Feb. 20, 1993. Nineteen years and four months later they enlisted together in the Army National Guard, and most recently, the pair completed nine weeks of basic training on Sand Hill -- always side by side. They graduated Nov. 1 … [Read more...]
Maiyo Wins Marine Corps Marathon, Leads All-Army to Victory
November 1, 2012 By Tim Hipps, IMCOM Public Affair WASHINGTON (Oct. 31, 2012) -- For the second consecutive year, a U.S. Army Soldier won the Marine Corps Marathon -- this time against a record 23,864 runners, Oct. 28, in Washington, D.C. Spc. Augustus Maiyo, 29, a runner in the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program stationed at Fort Carson, Colo., won the 37th running of the … [Read more...]