Author: Dan Wolken
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AFA likely to open at BCA Invitational
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2012 – During an Oct. 29 U.S. Coast Guard search-and-rescue operation associated with Hurricane Sandy, 14 people who’d abandoned the sinking HMS Bounty tall ship were rescued from life rafts in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C. The search continues for two people who remain missing from the…
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AFA players pleased with new coach
The nose-numbing cold wasn’t enough to keep hundreds of volunteers away from Fort Carson’s Iron Horse Park on Saturday. Though temperatures hovered around freezing, 360 soldiers, family members, and Boy and Girl Scouts reported for duty at 8 a.m. in observance of Make a Difference Day, a national celebration of volunteerism that’s taken place annually…
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AFA SECURES BZDELIK
WOODBRIDGE, Va., Oct. 26, 2012 – As three-year-old Joey Carpenter peddled his tricycle over crackling autumn leaves on the driveway, his mother smiled through stifled tears, for she knew her son would now have a stable home in which to grow up. Neighbors watched as the Department of Veterans Affairs saluted Elizabeth Carpenter, the 20…
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Sources: Bzdelik contract in works
WASHINGTON (AP) — The students in the Saturday morning class trickle in and, as they introduce themselves around a table, reveal far more intimate biographies than just name and hometown. One confesses to demons he struggles to control. Another says he’s here to find a community. “Forgive me,” an Iraq war veteran begins haltingly. “I…
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Bowden applauds DeBerry for beliefs
Family and friends rushed into the arms of soldiers with 10th Combat Support Hospital on Thursday morning during a ceremony marking their return from a year at war. The 117 soldiers that returned to Fort Carson on Friday spent much of the last year helping to staff five hospitals across Afghanistan, said Col. Michael Place,…
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Bzdelik will talk to AFA officials
LERAY, N.Y. — State police say they’ve arrested a northern New York soldier accused of watching over the Internet as his wife sexually abused a teenage girl while he was stationed in Afghanistan. They say 22-year-old Shawn Raymo was overseas in July 2011 when he watched over Skype while 21-year-old Jessica Raymo engaged in oral…
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Bzdelik likely frontrunner for AFA opening
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Oct. 23, 2012 – Ask Army Chief Warrant Officer 4 Walter Jones why he serves, and he will tell you, “It’s all about flying and soldiers.” Jones, born in Mountain Home, Idaho, is serving in Afghanistan as an aviation maintenance officer with Company D, 5th Battalion, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade. He enlisted…
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Candidates step forward
Taxpayer support of base grocery stores this fiscal year would fall by $130 million, or 9.4 percent, if Congress fails to reach a debt-reduction deal by Jan. 2, its deadline to avoid arbitrary budget cuts mandated by the sequestration mechanism in last year’s Budget Control Act.The Office of Management and Budget delivered that news to…
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Recruits plan on coming to AFA
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2012 – The biggest challenge in the relationship between the military and the media is working together in an uncertain environment in an age of instant communication, the Army’s chief of staff said here Nov. 19. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno shared his views on military-media relations in remarks and a question-and-answer session…