Tag: army – active duty
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DeBerry realizes change not persecution
Nine months after leaving for Afghanistan, about 165 soldiers with the 4th Infantry Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team returned on Saturday to Fort Carson. It was the end to the first phase of a push to use small teams of specially-trained soldiers to better mentor and advise Afghan units on the finer points of national…
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NFL OFFERS SAFETY NET
A festive foot march to a downtown soup kitchen served as physical training Friday for hundreds of Fort Carson soldiers who volunteered to hand-deliver gifts to the homeless. More than 300 1st Brigade Combat Team soldiers let out a collective holler of “first to fight” as they departed Dorchester Park at 8 a.m. and embarked…
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Drivers striving for more than wins at PPIR
Carefully removing a camouflage cover, Col. James Mingus signaled the return of most soldiers with the 4th Infantry Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team early Sunday morning by unfurling the units’s flag at Fort Carson. About 150 soldiers with the brigade returned to Colorado early Sunday. It was the latest in a series of flights back…
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TOUR GUIDES
With last year’s repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law, many military people, including senior leaders, assumed that married gay and lesbian couples had gained not only job security, but equality in allowances, benefits and access to family support programs. That assumption is wrong. Since the law took effect 14 months ago, the Department…
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‘Our best player’ could miss season
Locals get promoted, graduate basic training• Matthew C. Beresky has been promoted to master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. Beresky is a loadmaster assigned to the 302nd Airlift Wing at Peterson Air Force Base. He is the son of Kimberly L. Hazard and grandson of Luci Duke, both of Colorado Springs. Beresky graduated…
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American fans fixated on fantasy sports
WASHINGTON — It was a sneak attack, but not by the enemy they feared. U.S. Army Capts. Joshua Lawrence and Drew Russell, of Fort Carson, were inside a small command post on an Afghan army base, wrapping up a long day of coordinating the safe arrival of nearly 100 Afghan religious and tribal leaders for a…
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MORE PIECES OF THE PUZZLE
For Spc. Bryan Galvan, the most painful part of being wounded in combat was parting ways with his fellow soldiers. “I was upset because I was leaving them sooner than I wanted to,” said Galvan, an infantryman who was shot in the abdomen May 11 while serving in Afghanistan with the 4th Brigade Combat Team.…
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Rockies get back to basics to sweep Royals
Spc. Jessica Foust never wore a pearly white dress. Nor did her husband-to-be, Sgt. Trevor Foust, don a tuxedo and watch her walk down an aisle flanked by family and friends. The two went to a courthouse and filled out the required paperwork to be married on Feb. 17. A month later, separate planes took…
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Title won by Birdie from the sand
Fewer than 1 in 5 of the women offered the chance to move into a combat-related position at Fort Carson took advantage of the opportunity, according to preliminary data from a pilot program at Fort Carson. The rate of women who took the newly-opened jobs with Fort Carson’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team offered the first…
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Donner continues to blitz competition
Not a single soldier’s hand would go unshaken at Monday evening’s homecoming for 250 Fort Carson GIs fresh back from Afghanistan.Not if retired Army Lt. Col. Charley Watkins had anything to say about it.Watkins and a half-dozen fellow Veterans of Foreign Wars members lined both sides of the most heavily used exit doors at the…