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5 On April 30, in a ceremony in front of family, friends and fellow soldiers, 1st Lt. Ellen Morrison accepted the company guidon from outgoing commander Capt. Jonathan Bratten, thereby assuming command of the 251st Engineer Company. An ordnance officer turned engineer, Morrison has served as the unit executive officer since October 2019, having previously served as a platoon leader and executive officer with Augusta's 152nd Support Maintenance Company. She also was a platoon leader with the 251st during two large out-of-state training exercises in New York and Louisiana. "I am...

Military Notes Share Guard historian selected for national scholar-in-residence program The U.S. Army Center of Military History has selected Maine’s Capt. Jonathan Bratten as its first Scholar in Residence. A published author, Bratten will spend his first year as a guest faculty member at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., followed by a second year at the Army’s Center of Military History in Washington, D.C., to develop educational history tours, known in the military as staff rides. Staff rides are an official training event prescribed in Army regulations, and are useful too...

Published April 5, 2021 at 7:00 AM EDT Listen • 53:00 / As we rapidly lose our World War II veterans, our panel discusses how we, as a society, remember those who have served and died in war. We’ll hear from Maine's Army National Guard Command historian and two local authors with new books—one about five men who served aboard a famous Navy destroyer during World War II, and the other about the 45 students from one high school class who served in the military, 23 in Vietnam. Guests Lt. Jonathan Bratten, engineer officer and command historian in the Maine Army...

"When your nation needed you, you stepped up. And we will always be grateful," President Joe Biden wrote.

More than 175 Maine National Guard soldiers are providing support to Capitol Police and DC authorities. Author: Roslyn Flaherty (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 10:15 PM EST January 19, 2021 Updated: 6:00 AM EST January 20, 2021 WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — More than 175 Maine National Guard soldiers are in Washington, DC for inauguration security. One of those soldiers is Captain Jonathan Bratten. "The overall goal is to make sure the peaceful transition of authority here in the U.S. and the standards of our democracy," Capt. Bratten said. Capt. Bra...