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The following area communities will host Memorial Day services. Brainerd ceremonies will begin at 9 a.m. Monday, May 26, with ...
GIRARD — Ken David, Girard’s own Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, stood before an assembly of sixth through eighth ...
Born and raised in Girard, David enlisted in the Army in August 1969. He served as an indirect fire crewman with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam in 1970. During a military operation ...
"I went into the Army in April of 1967, and I was there through April of 1969," said Shore. "I was due to go to Vietnam in April of 1968, but the senior drill sergeant of my company got my orders ...
The Bell V-280 demonstrator in flight. The US Army's 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, will be the type's first operating unit. (Bell) The US Army's 101st Airborne ...
The 101st Airborne Division will be the first unit to get the Army’s new tiltrotor aircraft. This week the Army announced that the 101st will get to use Bell’s V-280 Valor, a next-generation ...
Former Bakersfield resident and Vietnam combat veteran David L. Jackson spent years serving his fellow veterans through the ...
I entered active duty a few weeks after graduation in 1983 and found an Army reinventing itself. Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, the Army again needs to find itself after our nation ...
The U.S. Army will field its first Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft, commonly known as FLRAA, to the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, the Army vice ...
WCCO reporter Al Austin and photojournalist Gordon Bartouche traveled to Vietnam and followed nearly a dozen Minnesota ...
AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq – The most sought-after aviation brigade in the Army, the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) continues to provide aerial options ...