Tag: deployment
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Colorado National Guard members deployed to the Middle East
The Colorado Army National Guard announced Thursday that more than 200 members are deploying to the Middle East. The members of the 1st Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment (Mountain), a unit based at Fort Carson, are deploying to help support an international peacekeeping force that supervises the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty and enforces its terms, according…
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Colorado Springs firefighters deploy to help battle blazes in western Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Seven Colorado Springs firefighters have deployed to the western part of the state to help battle a series of wildfires that have burned more than a combined 160,000 acres, officials said. A four-person crew is…
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Colorado firefighters head west to help battle devastating California wildfires
A group of Colorado firefighters has deployed to California to join an interagency effort to battle several wildfires currently ravaging the southern part of the state. At least five fires, covering more than 45 square miles in the greater Los Angeles area, have killed at least five people, destroyed at least 10,000 structures, and forced…
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Army boss Esper has high hopes for Fort Carson brigades
Those eight-wheeled Strykers coming to Fort Carson are a perfect fit for the place, says Army Secretary Mark Esper. Esper was in town last week on his first official stop at Fort Carson after a year in the Army’s top civilian job. He played a key role in figuring out what to do with the…
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Briargate open space closed for mouse
TRANSIT CENTER AT MANAS, Kyrgyzstan, April 3, 2012 – Few service members can say they served a deployment with their family, but Air Force Airman 1st Class Marita McCoy is one who can.McCoy is assigned to the 376th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron traffic management office here and is deployed from Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo.…
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Protect original will with trusted friend, relative named as inheritor
MINNEAPOLIS _ For the next four years, hundreds of military families in Minnesota will submit to wearing heart sensors to monitor the stresses they exert on each other and allow video cameras to record their interactions as part of an extraordinary first-in-the-nation look at the toll exacted by deployments to war zones.The research, which is…
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More chili recipes
What struck Kaylei Deakin about Moranda Hern wasn’t the determination to start an organization for teenage girls who had a parent deployed overseas, though that was impressive, considering they were both in high school. What Deakin remembers is just how Hern, now on the diving team at the Air Force Academy, didn’t act like she…
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WILL YOU WATCH?
Not everything went to according to plan.Two AH-64 Apache helicopters circled overhead, unleashing dozens of rockets before firing bullets from a 30 mm cannon. A couple miles back, platoons of M-1 Abrams tanks, Bradley Armored Fighting Vehicles and soldiers pounded fake enemy tanks invading from the northwest with artillery rounds.The mission destroyed the fictional enemy…
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Coach’s son works out for Nuggets
FORWARD OPERATING BASE NOLAY, Afghanistan, July 5, 2012 – As they waited in line for breakfast at the field mess hall here one recent morning, Marines heard blues music coming from a harmonica. “They’re out of eggs right now, so I’m going to wait out here for them to finish the next batch,” said Marine…
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Owens makes move to running professionally
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, July 2, 2012 – Afghan national security forces formally assumed responsibility for security in southern Afghanistan in a ceremony at Camp Hero in Kandahar province yesterday. Previously, the NATO-led International Security Force’s Regional Command South was responsible for security in Kandahar, Zabul, Uruzgan, and Daykundi provinces. “It wasn’t that long ago that…