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The New York National Guard and local officials proudly honored the 227th birthday of President Martin Van Buren at its yearly wreath-laying ceremony in Kinderhook Friday. It was a beautiful, sunny day on which to celebrate the birthday of the eighth president, who was born in Kinderhook in 1782.
• Gifts for military service members. Care packages, holiday cards and gifts can be sent to military service members in the United States or deployed overseas this holiday season. However, individuals, families and organizations need to send their donations to specific soldiers and programs.
CORPUS CHRISTI —ARMY National Guard Pfc. Erik A. Sisson has graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga. He is the son of Brian Sisson of Aransas Pass and is a 2004 graduate of Gregory-Portland High School and received an associate degree in 2009 from Del Mar College.MEETINGS/ REUNIONSFleet Reserve Association Branch 94 shipmates meet at 1 p.m. and Unit 94 Auxiliary ...
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - The Hattiesburg home of a National Guard soldier, now serving in his second tour in Iraq, has been of chosen for "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."
Ohio is asking that the site of the 1970 Kent State University shootings be added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The non-profit Operation Homefront will open a shop at the National Guard Armory in Fayetteville on Friday. Other shops will open near bases with the highest level of deployments, including Fort Bliss, Texas; Fort Stewart, Ga.; and Fort Campbell, Ky.
Baltimore County, state and military officials gathered at the Warfield Air National Guard Base at Martin State Airport in Middle River on Wednesday to break ground for a much-needed fire station.
In previous years, the Osseo holiday celebration has always included the official tree lighting in Boerboom Veterans Park and pictures with Santa.
(Submitted photo) Pierre Renaud received the Department of Defense Patriotic Award for helping his Cascades Plastics employee, Henry Barnes, who was on active duty with the U.S. Army.
(Springfield, MO) -- The Missouri National Guard and the City of Springfield will strengthen their partnership today.
After about a 100-year absence, an Arkansas National Guard unit soon will call Cabot home. Construction of the long-awaited National Guard armory will begin Thursday with a ceremonial groundbreaking, at 10:30 a.m. at the armory site on Commerce Park Drive in the Cabot Commerce Center.
RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia National Guard is marking the official closure of the Richmond and Roanoke armories with two ceremonies. The Guard says officials will conduct closing ceremonies this weekend for the two armories.
John DeSantis Senior Staff Writer HOUMA — Families of local soldiers headed for Iraq next month are hoping their neighbors will turn out Saturday night outside the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, where an invitation-only dinner is being held in the troops' honor.
In this Dec. 1, 2009 photo, Pennsylvania Army National Guard member Spc. Brad Kenny of Ridley Park Pa., who recently returned from his second deployment to Iraq takes notes during a job fair in Philadelphia. The unemployment rate fell to 10 percent in November as employers cut the smallest number of jobs since the recession began. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
FORT CAMPBELL, KY — Sgt. Brandon Massey realizes how important it is for a Soldier to stay proficient with the weapons because someday it could be the difference between life and death.
After 14 years at the helm of Wayne Bank, President and Chief Executive Officer William W. Davis Jr., will retire at the end of the year. Mr. Davis, 65, has been a fixture in Northeast Pennsylvania banking, with a career spanning four decades, most of t
