Author: Dan Wolken
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Numbers don’t add up for Hurdle
BRUSSELS — NATO is ready to defend alliance member Turkey amid artillery exchanges along its tense southeastern border with Syria, its top official said Tuesday. Turkey and Syria have exchanged mortar and cannon fire across their common border since errant Syrian shells killed five Turkish civilians last week, sparking fears of a wider regional crisis.…
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Denver sends a loud message
The Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8 community sent two messages to Washington, D.C.: • Don’t let the looming $1.2 trillion in mandatory “sequestration” federal budget cuts go through. It will wreak havoc on education. • Do help military families nationwide by adopting programs similar to what D-8 uses to help military students more easily transitions…
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Carney enjoying springtime to work on Falcons’ pass game
Lt. Col. Damone Garner’s first deployment focused less on aiming shells at buildings and more on finding ways to construct new ones in the wake of the Army’s 2003 invasion of Iraq.That philosophy is one he plans to carry over as commander of Fort Carson’s newest unit.Garner took command on Saturday of the 440th Civil…
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Springs native has one more shot at CC
The twisted steel that sits outside Fort Carson’s main gate once sat in the dust-strewn rubble of the World Trade Towers in New York. Eleven years later, that steel will set the stage for a ceremony remembering the deadliest attack on United States soil. Fort Carson officials plan to hold a remembrance ceremony on Tuesday…
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Youth serves dramatic rally
An Air Force Academy cadet was found innocent of using the marijuana substitute “spice” by a court-martial panel Friday night, but convicted of making a false official statement.Junior cadet Kami L. Bohannon was fined $990 in pay by the special court martial panel for lying to investigators.“She was found not guilty of one specification of…
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Wilson could make Rockies much better than expected
Staff Sgt. Christopher J. Birdwell accepted nothing less than perfection — garnering the nickname “sergeant major” even though he was years from such a rank. Spc. Mabry J. Anders wore a slightly more dirty uniform. He savored crawling under Humvees leaking grease, all the while wearing that “sleepy smile” that hardly went away, said Lt.…
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Todd Helton is the Rockies’ senior statesman.
Charmaine Yniguez knew the drill. As soon as her husband, Staff Sgt. Richard Yniguez, stepped on the plane for Afghanistan, Charmaine said she stopped watching national news channels. She had learned during Richard’s previous two deployments to keep a careful eye on the television channels their children flipped to every day. “They were in the…
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Despite concerns about his age and his defense, Colorado will rely on J.D. Closser as their catcher.
CAIRO — Human Rights Watch said it has uncovered evidence of a wider use of waterboarding than previously acknowledged by the CIA, in a report Thursday detailing brutal treatment of detainees at U.S.-run lockups abroad after the 9/11 attacks. The accounts by two former Libyan detainees who said they underwent simulated drowning emerge only days…
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Nuggets holding court
FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) — A memorial service is being held for a Fort Carson soldier from Arizona who was killed in Afghanistan.The service is being held Monday for 30-year-old 1st Lt. Alejo Thompson of Yuma, Ariz. Thompson was killed earlier this month when his unit was attacked with small-arms fire. He was assigned to…
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Nuggets prolong Lakers’ misery
Take me down to Sesame Street! Take me down to Sesame Strret!Who doesn’t love Sesame Street? And more importantly, what 5 year old hasn’t learned everything they know by watching it? Ok, maybe not EVERYTHING, but you can’t deny the awesomeness that is Sesame Street. Especially the show has become more military family friendly with…