Author: Ivan Orozco
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Team tames wild horse
Staff Sgt. Denise Flory was on her way to work at Peterson Air Force Base Thursday morning when she heard on the radio about a motorcade for the bodies of a slain Fort Carson soldier and his wife. Staff Sgt. David Dunlap and his wife, Whitney (Butler) Dunlap, were killed Jan. 14 when they walked…
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Being a clown is serious business
The third man in the roll call didn’t stand up. “Staff Sgt. David Dunlap,” the sergeant major called a second time. Dunlap, the third man in his company’s alphabetized roster, didn’t respond with a: “Here, sergeant major.” “Staff Sgt. David Clarke Dunlap,” the sergeant major said. The name resounded in the chapel where Dunlap’s friends,…
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Bareback lead one point
Soldiers at Fort Carson are looking for 55 capsules of tear gas that went missing after a training exercise. A base official said Wednesday the thumb-size capsules present no risk to the public. The capsules are used to train soldiers how to use their gas masks and about the effects of tear gas if the…
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Huie gets surprise trail win
Ashley Freeman had never won a contest in her life — not until Saturday night. As the Army wife waited for the return of her husband in a packed hangar on Butts Army Airfield, her raffle-ticket number was announced over a loudspeaker. She let out a loud squeal. Her prize: the first kiss of the…
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Klesko keys San Diego
Reaction to the death of retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf: ___ “Barbara and I mourn the loss of a true American patriot and one of the great military leaders of his generation. A distinguished member of that ‘Long Gray Line’ hailing from West Point, Gen. Norm Schwarzkopf, to me, epitomized the ‘duty, service, country’ creed…