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Fort Leonard Wood welcomes back loved ones for graduations Brian Hill Fort Leonard Wood Fort Leonard Wood welcomed back large-scale gatherings of family and friends at graduation ceremonies and family days last week after more than a year of virtual-only events due to COVID-19 mitigation efforts. While graduations for functional courses, basic officer leadership courses, captains career courses and courses with the NCO Academy opened to in-person visitors May 1, larger One Station Unit Training and Advanced Individual Training family days and graduations opened back up to in-person visitors M...

Memorial Day: From loss comes strength to lead Soldiers Amanda Sullivan Fort Leonard Wood In January 2006, two young Soldiers were killed eight days and less than 50 miles apart while deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Fourteen years later, their stories came together by way of two 58th Transportation Battalion first sergeants. A lunchtime phone call last year between Company C 1st Sgt. Kevin Dudkiewicz and Company A 1st Sgt. Alec Glanville, uncovered a shared story of loss neither expected. When Dudkiewicz told Glanville, then a senior drill sergeant under Dudkiewicz, that his b...

The Fort Benning ceremony was not a full return to normal.

50 The U.S. Army Human Resources Command recognizes a veteran of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) during the 79th Anniversary of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) on May 15, 2021. Susan Kilianski, HRC Government Release Specialist and U.S. Army retired Sgt. 1st Class, shares her journey in the WAC as a 71H, personnel specialist when she enlisted in July 1973. On May 15, 1942, congress established a Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) but did not grant its members military status. The WAAC was converted to the WAC on July 1, 1943 and Kilianski joined 30 years later. �...

Post inducts five into Hall of Fame By Robert Timmons, Fort Jackson Public Affairs Fort Jackson inducted five into its Hall of Fame in a ceremony held April 22 at the NCO Club. The inductees made up the combined 2020-2021 HOF class. The post’s hall of fame was established to “recognize and honor persons who have made an indelible mark on the Fort Jackson community.” Each inductee will be included on the Hall of Fame Wall in the post headquarters. The photos on the wall won’t be enough for the post to thank them, said Fort Jackson Commander Brig. Gen. Milford H. “Beags” Beagle Jr....