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KANKAKEE — The Illinois Army National Guard announced plans on Nov. 30 to build a $48.35 million Readiness Center and Army Aviation Support Facility at the Greater Kankakee Airport.
On your mark.Get set.At ease, airmen.The new fitness test standards are on hold, the Jan. 1 start date pushed back six months. Until July 1, the current scoring matrix stays in place.Before you get too excited, know that you’re not completely off the hook. You still have to take two PT tests next year.“It is important to us that we have this right,” Lt. Gen. Richard Newton, deputy chief of staff ...
WILLIAMS, Ind. — A former Indiana National Guard commander has died after suffering from lung cancer that he believed was caused by exposure to toxic chemicals in Iraq.
City of Christmas holiday display open –– 5 to 10 p.m., Rand Park, Keokuk. Line dancing –– 5 to 6 p.m., youth room, Trinity United Methodist Church, 2330 Plank Road, Keokuk.
Unit arrived in spring and will be in Afghanistan for several more months
Members of the 278th are deploying this weekend.
Peoria County authorities are investigating a fire that severely damaged a home in Lake Camelot Sunday night. Logan-Trivoli Fire Chief David Tuttle says the home owner, Kenneth Kocher, was defrosting a freezer in the garage at 4103 South Dunbar Point.
Family members of Wisconsin National Guard soldiers in Iraq will collect winter clothing for struggling veterans from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the guard armory at 1420 Wright St. in Madison.
By Julie Brennan For The Express Editor's Note: In the latter part of 1940, a young man from Castanea joined the Pennsylvania National Guard as a prelude to his Army service when World War II commenced a short time later. Roy M. Hanna fought valiantly oversea.
SPRINGFIELD A friendly call from Mark Engle checking in with his longtime friend, Steve Walder, led to an emergency airlift to a Philadelphia hospital to treat an apparent heart attack Mr. Walder had Friday.
Register early to secure your spot to 'Girls Rock' event.
The state has $140,000 of the $200,000 needed to bring home troops in the Midwest for Christmas and New Year's.
After flooding in Jeddah killed more than 100 people, Saudi Arabians have flocked to Facebook to press the government for better drainage. A Katrina moment for Saudi leaders?
The Arkansas National Guard's Agricultural Development Team, which is scheduled for deployment to Afghanistan in early 2010, began training this week in a cooperative partnership with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture through the U of A Cooperative Extension Service.
An Indiana National Guard team is being deployed to help people in Afghanistan grow a brighter future.
BOSTON (AP) — His father was a lifelong scalloper, his uncles are fishermen, and 23-year-old Chris Pinto realized as he got older that fishing is “in my blood.” It just didn’t look like it was in his future.
