4 After a hiatus in 2020 due to the pandemic, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command Soldiers vied for top spots in the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence Best Warrior Competition at Fort Rucker, Alabama, May 10-14.
Two specialists and a staff sergeant were among the 11 competitors in the typically annual event: Staff Sgt. Daron Ashcraft from AMCOM’s Aviation Center Logistics Command at Fort Rucker, Spc. Christian Kerkado-Colon from Corpus Christi Army Depot and Spc. Jaycob Vellon-Colon from Letterkenny Army Depot.
There were also two noncommissioned officers competing for the 2021 Drill Sergeant of the Year Competition, for a total of 13 Soldiers going through rigorous paces.
Where in Pa. and N.J. are you most likely to see cicadas? (MAP)
Updated May 06, 2021;
Posted May 06, 2021
A cicada nymph crawls up from a turret in the soil, Sunday, May 2, 2021, in Frederick, Maryland. The 17-year periodical cicadas of 2021 s Brood X will mostly come out at dusk to try to avoid everything that wants to eat them, squiggling out of holes in the ground. They’ll try to climb up trees or anything vertical.AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
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The 2021 emergence of the 17-year periodical cicadas in Brood X has begun in Tennessee and North Carolina.
It’s only a matter of time before they begin crawling from their underground burrows closer to the Lehigh Valley.
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Jonathan and Marcia Pretlow with their children, Julius, Asia, and Laila. (Dani Fresh for WHYY)
Jonathan Pretlow dreams of having an asset that will help springboard his family forward for generations. As is the case for many Americans, that means owning a home.
In 2010, his then-fiance Marcia moved from Baltimore to join him in Chambersburg, a borough of around 20,000 in central Pennsylvania. Their blended family two kids of hers, one of his moved into a neighborhood of two-story townhomes billed by local officials as a “rent-to-own” project for low-income residents.
The Pretlows began paying rent for their Redwood Park home with the understanding that they would take on the mortgage after 15 years.
1 Mark Hansberger, while serving as the antiterrorism program manager at Letterkenny Army Depot, was selected as an Antiterrorism Honor Role Honoree as part of the Army Antiterrorism Awards for fiscal year 20. Hansberger’s efforts directly contributed to LEAD receiving an exceptional rating for best practices during the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command’s annual assessment in fiscal year 20.
“I am incapable of taking all the credit for this award,” Hansberger said. “My accomplishments are attributed to all of those within my Directorate of Emergency Services team and my Letterkenny family,” he continued. “This award is reflective of the collective efforts of the Directorate of Emergency Services, Letterkenny, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command and Army Materiel Command. It was truly a team effort.”