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Jackson resident Reginald Sims was presented with the Veteran Service Officer Award on Tuesday morning.

Thank you for your example of service and bravery.

May 1944: Based on a language aptitude test, I was taken out of the infantry, training in the Oregon snows, and shipped down to sunny Stanford, to be trained in Japanese. I opted for Chinese instead, thinking this would bring me home earlier. And then…. And then I totally fell in love with the Chinese language, the culture, my Chinese teachers. And it was two generations and

Honor service members at these events across the region on November 11.

Captain Nicolae Bartholomew commanded a company of Rangers, ran like a wraith, and effortlessly knocked out a cool 100 textbook pushups in two minutes on his PT test.

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.

The world seemed awfully dire back during the Cold War. Nowadays, Vladimir Putin keeps busy rubbing Novichok nerve agent into his political opponents’ underpants (No kidding. Google it).

Press TV: More than 100,000 men have been sexually assaulted in the US military in recent decades. The US military, apparently, tolerates sexual harassment, the number of women in the military assaulted, is also staggering. Commanders often ignore reports and punish the victims instead. A video posted by a female marine about sexual assault in […]

I remember is my former Platoon Sergeant, MSG Jared Van Aalst. He was the kind of Ranger who was always looking for an edge...

Emotions come through and a lot of mixed emotions. and yet at the same time we train for that. i was a lieutenant colonel, so pretty much 18 years of service and in that time frame i thought about three things. first was we had people in the pentagon, and i had a first sergeant that jumped and went there so he was our eyes and ears, called my husband and said, honey, the pentagons been hit. he said im on my way so i could trust that they were going to be hopefully rescued, although we didnt know...