Author: Dan Wolken
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Linebacker might not play
Mourners paid respects Wednesday to an Air Force Academy graduate who died last week when his plane went missing during a training mission. Nearly 1,000 showed up to honor Maj. Lucas “Gaza” Gruenther at a memorial service held at Aviano Air Base in Italy, according to an Air Force news release. Gruenther, a pilot with…
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ROCKY STOP
An Iraqi man was acquitted Thursday of three felony charges against him in connection with the brutal rape of a Colorado Springs woman, and convicted of two misdemeanor charges. Also, the jury could not reach agreement on a fourth felony charge against Yasir Jabbar Jasim, 21. The misdemeanor convictions were for false reporting; he was…
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MWC explains its reviews
On cherished summer days, Clinton Romesha carried a .22 rifle across his grandfather’s spacious ranch in western Nevada, hunting squirrels alongside his older sister. • Back home, Clinton Romesha lugged a chainsaw across his parents’ ranch in northeast California, thinning trees and earning every penny of his allowance. • “Our biggest threat was maybe shooting…
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Accord mostly pleases Avs fans
A Fort Carson soldier died on Sunday, about a month after he was injured during an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital. Sgt. Mark H. Schoonhoven, a newlywed from Plainwell, Mich., died at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, according to the Department of Defense. He was 38. “The whole family’s taking it…
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‘Birdie’ says it all
All that 2-year-old Ethan Jewell wants for Christmas is for his daddy, Army Staff Sgt. James Jewell, to come home from Afghanistan. Since the Fort Carson sergeant is scheduled to return Tuesday, there was no use in Ethan wasting a wish on him Saturday morning at the Southeast YMCA’s Military Youth Breakfast with Santa. This…
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Flower of youth
Mayor Steve Bach presented the Spirit of the Springs Award to Colonel Martin France on Tuesday, November 20th, for leading immediate and ongoing recovery efforts following the Waldo Canyon Fire. Colonel France organized over 250 Air Force Academy cadets to support the neighbors with mitigation work in Mountain Shadows as well as Blodgett Peak. They…
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Down, but surely not out
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 19, 2012 – This holiday season, at more than 200 locations in Afghanistan, service members will dine on a feast reminiscent of home, a Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence senior official said today. Rich Faso, the supply chain’s director of customer operations, lauds the workforce and industry partners for making the Thanksgiving…
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Female golfers believe LPGA on upswing
The Pikes Peak region is getting a significant boost in the fight against suicide, thanks to a couple that has dedicated itself to the cause after one son took his life in 2003 and another died in combat about seven months later. Retired Maj. Gen. Mark Graham, commander of Fort Carson from 2007 to 2009,…
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Golf world’s eyes on Wie
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Air Force Academy firefighters took gold, silver and bronze medals Saturday at the World Firefighter Combat Challenge XXI, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.The Air Force Academy teams competed in several categories in the event, which simulates the tasks a firefighter must perform at a working fire in full gear, on a…