The M777 is, at four tons, the lightest 155mm towed howitzer ever fielded. A crew of five fires regular rounds to 24 kilometers and RAP rocket assisted projectiles to 40 kilometers. M777 fire control ...
On Nov. 11, pockets of rain showers eased up to open the skies for Goose Creek’s annual Veteran’s Day celebration. The event ...
Native Americans have served in or supported the Army since Colonial times, and Maj. Gen. Douglas S. Lowrey says he and the ...
Soldiers of the 4th Engineer Battalion were officially welcomed into the 4th Infantry Division during a patching and integration ceremony held at Founders Field, Fort Carson, Colorado, Oct. 21 ...
Richard Nowakowski, from Town Bank, never thought he would be the first man to jump out of the plane, but there he was, ...
Editor’s note: Earl Bostick Montgomery was born in March 1920 in Arkansas and died in March 2018 in Longview. He was 98. Montgomery served in the Army from 1941 to 1966 and was a pilot in World War II ...
Dr. Robert Kibler isn’t just a scholar who loves studying “all things Chinese, Roman and British.” He is also a U.S. Air ...
I was born in Sweden in 1943. My father was highly educated and very successful in his field. I, however, was pretty much the opposite. An immature loser, ...
It was the 20th anniversary of NHARNG’s 2004 deployment to Vietnam, the largest ... involved NHARNG’s seacoast battalion, 3 d Bn, 197 th Field Artillery with units from Portsmouth, Rochester ...
I was just a little kid, but I remember him coming down the gangway at my grandmother’s house in his uniform on leave and he ...
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Baseball and the Great War
Leading the parades would be the High School band playing patriotic songs followed by the World War I guys. At the time, the Great War vets were probably only 67 or 68 years old, but their faces ...