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GILLETTE — When Ralph Gilbert graduated from high school in 1968, he knew he “just wasn’t college material.”

When Ralph Gilbert graduated from high school in 1968, he knew he “just wasn’t college material.”

Far from the deserts of the Middle East, the Army is instructing troops in Hawaii on the skills needed for a potential clash with China.

The specter of a future fight in the Pacific, with China or other regional adversaries, has triggered a renewed interest in the U.S. Army on jungle tactics.

For 33 years, the retiring Vermont senator and a top aide have quietly but doggedly been working to bind the many wounds of a war that touched the lives of nearly every Vietnamese family. This is what public service is.

The U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Division’s Tropic Lightning Band is in Indonesia with another 2,000 U.S. troops participating in this month’s Super Garuda Shield exercise alongside 2,000 Indonesian service members.

19 FORT BENNING, Ga.-- The top rangers from across the Army gathered at Fort Benning, Georgia, to compete in the 37th annual Best Ranger Competition, from April 16-18, 2021. The Best Ranger Competition consists of a series of physically grueling events such as swimming, ruck marching, and running long distances, along with various obstacle courses that best showcase the competence, physical and mental endurance, and competitive spirit, of the Army Ranger. Thousands of miles awa...

Bridget Murray through the years. In Galway in 1935, Bridie 11, with her much-loved, and much-traveled bicycle. In New York in 1942: Bridie at 18. On September 9, 2016: Still beautiful, a radiant Bridie on her 92nd birthday. A profile of Bridget H. Murray, my mother. By Eileen Murray Bridget Harriet Collier filled the world with many things since she came into it on Tuesday, September 9, 1924: humor, kindness, love. Perhaps the only thing she was short on was complaints about the hardships she...

A Mesa Marine veteran and celebrated cider maker has been named one of 29 national Rising Stars in the food and beverage industry.  Jason Duren, a retired sergeant, received the recognition from FSR Magazine in a piece that identifies up-and-coming foodservice professionals who are changing the industry for the better.  As the co-owner and cider maker of Cider Corps since it opened in 2017, Duren and his brother Josh have been leaders in the U.S.’s emerging craft cider industry. T...