Author: Jessica Delos Reyes
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Title at stake for CC, Denver
The Peterson Air Force Base fire department will conduct fire training exercises from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday at the base fire training center located on the west side of the installation near Airport Road and Powers Boulevard.This routine training is conducted periodically to ensure base emergency responders are prepared to handle a wide…
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Unlikely sources help CC rebound
A suicide attack struck at the heart of Fort Carson’s 4th Brigade Combat Team in Afghanistan, killing the brigade’s top enlisted soldier and one of the brigade’s majors. An airman assigned to Fort Carson was also killed in the attack. Command Sgt. Maj. Kevin J. Griffin, a 23-year veteran of the Army and the right-hand…
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Not-so high five
The 4th annual Fountain Valley 5k for the Fallen will be held on Saturday, September 1st, at the Guy Barickman Stadium at Fountain Fort Carson High School. The run starts at 8 am and is $25 for adults, and $15 for kids.Not only does the run honor the fallen and those left behind, but it…
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Tigers bounce back briskly
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 2012 – As Marines keep pushing insurgents out of Afghanistan’s Helmand and Nimruz provinces, Afghan soldiers and police are taking the reins and protecting the population, the commander of 1st Marine Division (Forward) said today via teleconference from Camp Leatherneck. The biggest change on the ground in the area is the drawdown…
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LOSING GROUND
Andrea Carlile didn’t notice the toll that eight months in Iraq took on her husband when he returned to Fort Carson in 2003.Wesley Carlile never spoke of the numerous memorial services he helped prepare overseas. He expended no words on his best friend, who was killed when a Chinook helicopter was shot down.He stayed quiet.…
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WHAT LOCKOUT?
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bomb threat has been called in to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, forcing a building to be closed for three hours at the facility outside Washington. A military official says someone phoned in a threat minutes before 9 a.m. EDT Wednesday, saying a bomb would detonate about an hour…
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Tigers tie game, hold lead
TOKYO — Japan marked the 67th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb attack with a ceremony Monday that was attended by a grandson of Harry Truman, the U.S. president who ordered the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. About 50,000 people gathered in Hiroshima’s peace park near the epicenter of the 1945 blast that destroyed most…
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Tigers continue to walk on air
VANCOUVER, Wash. — T. Scott Woll isn’t what you might expect of a newly commissioned officer in the Army. For starters, he’s an orthopedic surgeon who has spent the last couple of decades repairing limbs at Rebound Orthopedics & Neurosurgery in Vancouver. And then there’s his prior weapons experience — or lack thereof. Before deciding…
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CC set for two-faced team in Mankato
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas – If you have children, especially teenagers, you already know the harrowing statistics that illustrate the dangers they face in the world today. Daily we see news about kids left to their own devices after school who have taken the wrong path in life. Air Force youth programs help combat…
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Tigers use winning method
The job outlook for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans continues to brighten as the unemployment rate for the group fell for the sixth month in a row. The unemployment rate for veterans who entered service after Sept. 11, 2001, fell to 8.9 percent in July, down from 9.5 percent the previous month and from 12.4 percent…