NATICK, Mass. (Sept. 14, 2015) -- Three Soldiers, who work at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine at Natick Soldier Systems Center, have completed 200 miles of a ruck march from Boston to New York to raise awareness of veteran suicides. Kristen Heavens, a Reserve first lieutenant who came up with the idea, Staff Sgt. Shaun Morand and Spc. Sonya Edler are … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2015
Alaska National Guard Rescues Three from Sinking Boat
Sept. 4, 2015, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska - Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued three people in Cook Inlet on Sept. 11. The three were stranded on a sandbar in the mud flats about six miles southeast of Fire Island. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center received a call from the Anchorage Fire Department at … [Read more...]
Chief of Naval Personnel Visits USS Theodore Roosevelt
ARABIAN GULF (NNS) - September 14, 2015 -- Chief of Naval Personnel (CNP) Vice Adm. Bill Moran visited Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) as part of a tour to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations, Sept. 10 - 11. "We're here to hear from you," Moran said at a luncheon with enlisted Sailors, "We want to hear feedback - good and bad. Tell us … [Read more...]
Capitol Hill Workout Commemorates 9/11
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Sept. 14, 2015) -- Some congressional staffers, and even some military officers serving in legislative liaison positions here, might have never worked so hard as they did during a 9/11-themed "workout of the day" in the Upper Senate Park on Capitol Hill. "What we got going on right here today is a commemoration for 9/11," said Maj. Adisa King, … [Read more...]
Marines Leave Lasting Memory for City of Scottsdale
SCOTTSDALE,Ariz. - September 14, 2015 -- Marines and Scottsdale residents gathered for the unveiling of the Marine Week Phoenix mural at the Scottsdale Civic Library, Sept. 12, 2015. Five Marine artists worked for nearly a week in temperatures upwards of 100 degrees to finish the mural celebrating relationships built during the week between the Corps and the people of the … [Read more...]