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By Todd DePastino Bill Bonnamy’s website dedicated to the 319th Glider Field Artillery, 82nd Airborne Division has stories from scores of the battalion’s veterans. Some...
By Todd DePastino Bill Bonnamy’s website dedicated to the 319th Glider Field Artillery, 82nd Airborne Division has collected a wide-ranging archive of information related to...
By Bill Boswell, COL (ret), USAFR During a recent VBC Scuttlebutt, we talked about how the mission of the Guard and the Reserve has changed...
by Regis Rossa In January 1957, I was 18 years old and had just completed Airborne Jump School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The Army...
by Todd DePastino Every one of us, when we were first learning to read, ran across the word “colonel” and pronounced it the way it...
by Anna Elizabeth “Betty” Robertson Digby Usually when I recall bygone days, my mind returns to the peaceful setting of my childhood and all is...
Photos by Ed Zirkle For the second year in a row, photographer Ed Zirkle kindly traveled from Ohio to capture the action and great spirit...
by Andy Nigut Andy Nigut served in Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division in I Corps near the DMZ in 1968, when...
Launching of SS Arisan Maru (Wikimedia Commons) by Rona Simmons In 1943, the Japanese began emptying their Philippine prison camps and shipping able-bodied POWs to...
by Rona Simmons October 24, 1944 was the deadliest day for American service members in World War II. The day’s grim record tally—2,600 KIA—didn’t make...
Armor Battalion soldiers engaged in firefight (LTC McBrearty) Retired Army LTC John J. McBrearty deployed to Iraq in 2004 with the California National Guard as...
Kate during her Iraq deployment, 2003-4 by COL Kate Guttormsen (USA, ret.) Retired Army Colonel Kate Guttormsen joined the Veterans Breakfast Club last year to...
