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Now 99, former Army Tech. Sgt. Harold Williams is one of the Capital Region's few...

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Army Guard gets its first real-time feedback range for combined ground-air live fire exercises March 10 The Idaho National Guard opened the new Digital Air Ground Integrated Range at the Orchard Combat Training Center, March 4, 2020. The range is the first DAGIR located on a National Guard training site. (Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur/Army) Ground and aviation units with the Army National Guard now have a high-tech range where they can run live-fire training at the same time and receive on-the-spot feedback. The Idaho Army National Guard opened its Digital Air-Ground Integrated Range on Marc...

A Detroit-based company created a tabletop game that spotlights underappreciated all-black units during World War II February 03, 2021 An artist by nature and tabletop gaming designer since 2014, Lee Gaddies fused his love for board games and military history to pay homage to America’s first African-American tank unit. The founder and CEO of Detroit-based Gaddis Gaming, a manufacturer of tabletop games and accessories, launched “Empires Fall” in November to spotlight the Army’s 761st Tank Battalion, a segregated African-American tank unit dubbed “the Black ...

Elizabeth Davis Special to Boonville Daily News George Phillips was born July 14, 1926, in Rich Hill. He lived with an uncle and worked on the railroad before enlisting in the United States Marine Corps on April 25, 1944, at the age of seventeen. America already had been at war for two-and-a-half years. At Iwo Jima, on the night of March 14, 1945, Pvt. Phillips was on guard duty while the rest of his unit was resting. When an enemy soldier tossed a hand grenade in their midst, Phillips sacrificed his life by throwing himself on the grenade to save his fellow Marines. He was eighteen.