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Two Birds, One Stone
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An Army diver with the 569th Engineer Dive Detachment surfaces after doing an inspection during training at the Port of Tacoma, Wash., in 2016. (Spc. Adeline Witherspoon, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment) The Army’s dive teams have been presented with a new mission, one that makes a bucketload of common sense. They need purpose-oriented […]
Airman Moves On
A USAF Airman meteorologist who had been given an Article 15 (reduction in rank) for passing out drunk snapped out of it and pulled herself together. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/07/05/airman-moves-on-from-article-15-safeguards-thousands-of-lives-with-tornado-warning/ She redeemed herself by getting her act together and setting a good example for others. More recently, she’s been commended for sending out a tornado warning a few […]
Posthumous Award Upgrade
This is something I am glad to see. The whole story is here: https://www.armytimes.com/2019/07/03/senators-want-this-african-american-soldier-to-posthumously-receive-the-medal-of-honor-for-actions-on-d-day/ From the article: Cpl. Waverly B. Woodson Jr., an Army medic assigned to a segregated combat unit, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, was wounded by shrapnel in his groin and back as his landing craft crushed through the choppy waters off the coast […]
Funeral for S2c Ray H. Myers (World War II)
This April, DPAA announced that it had accounted for S2c Ray H. Myers, US Navy. S2c Myers was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. S2c Myers will be buried this weekend – on Sunday, 7 July 2019 – in Central City, Iowa. Regrettably, DPAA does not seem to have posted the specific […]
Funerals for MM1c George Hanson and EM3c William A. Klasing (World War II)
Last December, DPAA announced that it had accounted for MM1c George Hanson, US Navy. MM1c Hanson was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. MM1c Hanson will be buried later this week – on Saturday, 29 June 2019, in Laramie, Wyoming. Regrettably, DPAA does not seem to have posted the specific location for […]
Funeral for 1st. Lt. Howart T. Lurcott (World War II)
This February, DPAA announced that it had accounted for 1st. Lt. Howard T. Lurcott, US Army Air Forces. 1st. Lt. Lurcott was lost on Tarawa on 21 January 1944. 1st. Lt. Lurcott will be buried next week – on Wednesday, 26 June 2019, in Arlington National Cemetery. If any TAH readers have the precise time […]
Funeral for 1st. Lt. Burleigh E. Curtis (World War II)
Last December, DPAA announced that it had accounted for 1st. Lt. Burleigh E. Curtis, US Army Air Corps. 1st. Lt. Curtis was lost in France on 13 June 1944. 1st. Lt. Curtis will be buried next week – on Tuesday, 25 June 2019 – in Windham Center, Maine. Regrettably, DPAA does not seem to have […]
The BRRRRTTTT keeps coming:
Maj. Matt Paetzhold, an A-10C Thunderbolt instructor pilot with the 76th Fighter Squadron, climbs aboard a Warthog at Moody Air Force Base on Sept. 9, 2017. (SrA Daniel Snider/Air Force) The A-10 Thunderbolt II is a single-seat, twin turbofan engined, straight-winged, jet aircraft developed by Fairchild-Republic for the United States Air Force (USAF). It is […]
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