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“My parents and teachers instilled in me a devout love of God, family, and country. When I left home after high school to enlist in the Marines, my God-fearing mother admonished me to ‘Just trust in God always.’ Six years later, right after the fierce battle on Guadalcanal, I emptied the contents of my combat pack, and be-cause of my burned hands, I gingerly picked up my pocket New Testament which included the Psalms and Proverbs. The page prov-identially opened to Proverbs 3:5-6: ‘Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all...

POTUS Honors Purple Heart Recipients: ‘Its Legacy of Heroism Remains Steadfast’ The president is making sure to honor military personnel who’ve “endured immense suffering to earn the Purple Heart” and paid the “ultimate sacrifice in service to our Nation.” National Purple Heart Day is observed on August 7 to remember those in the U.S. armed forces who were wounded or killed while serving the country.

Whence comes the spark of excellence that drove Lloyd Burke, Medal of Honor winner? November 9, 2012 by David Marquet Lloyd Burke was having a bad year. Lloyd Burke from Tichnor Arkansas exemplifies the spark of Excellence that is in all of us. It was October 28th, 1951 and First Lieutenant Lloyd Leslie Burke, his friends called him Scooter, was in Korea. Scooter Burke had been the commander of Company G, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division for 13 months. He had arrived with his men just in time to defend the perimeter at Pusan, when the American and South...

Why did Robert McTureous leave a safe spot and risk his life? December 11, 2012 by David Marquet In 1942 Robert Miller McTureous Jr. quit. He quit collage were he was active in sports, and he was active in church and he was an avid airplane modeler to go back to his hometown Altoona, FL with the intention of enlisting. When McTureous tried to enlist he received some incredibly dispiriting news. He was classified as 4F — unfit for duty — because he had a hernia. So his brother Basil got on a job with the Florida Highway Department, where...

New Calif. church plant reaching Marines by Tobin Perry, posted Wednesday, July 31, 2019 (11 hours ago) TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (BP) -- Jacob and Joi Rogers had already tried for four months to find a church home during their first stint in Twentynine Palms (or 29 Palms), Calif., a year earlier. As a newly married couple, the marine and his new bride had to travel an hour away from home to find a good church fit. The congregation sings during a worship service at Pillar Church of 29 Palms, Calif., on May 19. Photo courtesy of Pillar Church So when...

68 years after disappearing during the Korean War, this soldier is finally home Jordan Travis, The Record-Eagle July 27, 2019 at 10:56 AM U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Leah Ferrante TRAVERSE CITY — At long last, U.S. Army Cpl. Charles Stanley Lawler is home. The former Traverse City resident's remains arrived at Cherry Capital Airport Thursday afternoon, 68 years after he disappeared in a Korean War battle. A parade of police vehicles and veterans on motorcycles rolled with the hearse, taking Lawler on his second-to-last trip to Covell Funeral Home where a military honor guard awaited. People came out to pay...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, ALASKA — It's a sacred annual mission: a group of mortuary affairs recovery experts arrives each June at a glacier high in Alaska's Chugach mountain range to continue the hunt for the remains of 52 troops killed in an Air Force transport crash 66 years ago. The C-124 was carrying 42 airmen, eight soldiers, one sailor and one Marine when it crashed into Mount Gannett on Nov. 22, 1952 as it traveled from McChord Air Force Base, Washington to what is now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. Winter had descended on the treacherous mountain range, and no remains...

Stone Lake Museum to present talk about B-52 crash Paul Mitchell Jul 9, 2018 Russ Voight (above) hangs a replica in the Stone Lake Historical Society Museum of the B-52 bomber which he built in commemoration of the crash of a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber southeast of Stone Lake while on a training mission in November, 1966. Voight served in the Strategic Air Command and worked on B-52s, which are 160 feet long and have a 185-foot wing span. Photos by Terrell Boettcher sybert Tom Sybert places a replica in the museum garden of the memorial he installed at...

U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground conducts developmental testing of multiple facets of the Extended Range Cannon Artillery project, from artillery shells to the longer cannon tube and larger firing chamber the improved howitzer will need to accommodate them on November 18, 2018 (U.S. Army photo)The future of Army long-range precision officially has a name. The Army confirmed on Monday that it plan on designating the Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) program's brand new 155mm self-propelled howitzer as the M1299, Army Recognition reports. Developed in response to increasing concerns of near-peer adversaries like Russia and China, the ERCA gun nailed targets...

Search Underway for Sailor Missing from USS Abraham Lincoln By: Sam LaGrone July 18, 2019 3:28 PM USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) steams with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge (DDG-96) after a replenishment-at-sea on May 8, 2019. US Navy Photo U.S. and international warships are searching for a sailor missing from the Lincoln Carrier Strike Group in the Arabian Sea, U.S. 5th Fleet announced on Thursday. The sailor was reported missing after a Wednesday man overboard incident on USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) while the carrier was operating in the region. In addition to Lincoln, guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf...

Dean Amick Wadsworth Captain, United States Air Force Dean Amick Wadsworth was born on November 30, 1930 and joined the Armed Forces while in Clarendon, Texas. He served in the Air force. In 12 years of service, he attained the rank of Captain. He began a tour of duty in Vietnam on October 8, 1963. DEAN AMICK WADSWORTH is listed as Missing in Action. Wadsworth, Dean Amick Born 10 November 1930, Died 18 December 1963 US Air Force, Captain Res: Devine, Texas Section 34, Grave 1153, buried 3 June 1999 ADSWORTH, DEAN AMICK REMAINs IDENTIFIED 04/16/99 Name: Dean Amick Wadsworth...

Robert Whitmore Colonel, United States Air Force New Reports: June 4, 1998 Man sentenced in beating death of retired Colonel RENO, Nevada - A Reno man was sentenced to more than 40 years in prison for the beating death of a retired Air Force Colonel whose body was stuffed in a military footlocker. Charles Michael May, 38, was sentenced Wednesday to at least 20 years for second-degree murder plus another 24 years for cashing checks out of his victim's bank account. May told Washoe District Judge Janet Berry he was saddened by the death of Colonel Robert Whitmore, 79. Deputy...

James Swayne Wilson, Jr. Captain, United States Air Force 50 Years Later, MIA Memorialized Friday, May 25, 2001 WASHINGTON –– Fifty years after losing her father to war on the Korean peninsula, Pat Dunton can finally do more than just imagine his fate. She can bury him. For all those years, she and her family waited and wondered: Did he die when his Air Force B-29 bomber was shot down? Did he survive, only to perish in a POW camp? What became of his remains? Now, this Memorial Day, answers. With the help of DNA samples, military forensics specialists have...

Barclay Bingham Young Major, United States Air Force Connecticut State Flag Date of Birth: 8/6/1938 Date of Casualty: 3/29/1972 Home of Record: FT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA Branch of Service: AIR FORCE Rank: MAJOR Casualty Country: LAOS Casualty Province: LZ Airmen MIA From Vietnam War are Identified The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of four U.S. servicemen, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to their families for burial with full military honors. They are Major Barclay B. Young, of Hartford, Connecticut; and Senior Master Sergeant James K....

By Clay Evans For the University of Colorado Mystery loves a vacuum. D.B. Cooper. Amelia Earhart. Jimmy Hoffa. All prominent Americans whose unexplained disappearances have fascinated and confounded armchair historians and professionals alike—and created fertile ground for all manner of wild explanations and conspiracy theories.Glenn_miller_feature Ditto for Glenn Miller, one of the University of Colorado Boulder’s most illustrious alumni, who was the nation’s most famous big-band leader when he disappeared Dec. 15, 1944, after heading out over the English Channel on a small military plane bound for Paris. Almost from the moment the world learned Miller had gone missing, conspiracy...

Marines Identify Remains Recovered from KC-130J Salvage Operation By: Megan Eckstein June 26, 2019 10:08 AM The Marine Corps has identified the remains of three Marines recovered during a recent salvage operation to retrieve a KC-130J that crashed in December during a refueling mishap off of Japan. Five Marines assigned to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron (VMGR) 152 were onboard the aircraft when it crashed last year, and all were killed. The Marine Corps conducted a salvage effort that spanned May 27 to June 7, and during that effort the remains of three of the Marines were found. After sending...

The commandant of the Marine Corps will have five years to stop separating men and women at the service's oldest boot camp, if a new amendment added to the 2020 defense authorization bill survives to ratification. Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat and chair of the House Armed Services Military Personnel subcommittee, proposed the amendment on Wednesday, "Training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina, may not be segregated based on gender," the measure states. "The Commandant of the Marine Corps shall carry out this subsection not later than five years after the date of the enactment...

B-52 crash site still haunts after 54 years Scott K. Fish, Special to the Piscataquis Observer • March 20, 2017 The B-52C plane wreckage hanging from trees, scattered about the ground on top of Elephant Mountain in Greenville, stays with me as much as any Maine “place of interest” I’ve visited. The site haunts me. A while ago, spending a weekend in Greenville, Marlene and I, over breakfast at Kelly’s Landing, searched local newspapers and brochures for things to do around Moosehead Lake. I found a short paragraph about U.S. Air Force plane wreckage, left much as it was on...

Source materials for "Conversations With Crazy Horse" by Bruce Brown Rain In The Face's Story of the Battle #1 A Hunkpapa Sioux's account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn As told to Dr. Charles Eastman in 1906. Here is an 1894 account, along with the famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Revenge of Rain-in-the-Face." Note Hunkpapa Sioux war chief Rain In The Face RAIN IN THE FACE'S ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN By Dr. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) The noted Sioux warrior, Rain-in-the-Face, whose name once carried terror to every part of the frontier, died at...

Cadet killed in West Point vehicle accident was star wrestler from New Jersey By LEONARD GREENE , KERRY BURKE and ELIZABETH KEOGH | NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | JUN 07, 2019 | 6:56 PM Christopher Morgan, the West Point cadet was killed when a tactical vehicle overturned on a dirt road at the upstate military reservation. (West Point) The West Point cadet killed when a tactical vehicle overturned on a dirt road at the upstate military reservation was a star wrestler from New Jersey, military officials confirmed Friday. Christopher Morgan, 22, was a standout wrestler West Orange High School before...