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Duty Calls: 3 soldiers inducted for being top noncommissioned officers Terry Brown FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Soldiers of the New York Army National Guard s 1108th Ordnance Company (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) gather following their farewell ceremony at the Glenville Armed Forces Reserve Center in Glenville in preparation for a Middle East deployment.Sgt. Matthew Gunther / NY Army National GuardShow MoreShow Less 2of3 3of3 Three soldiers assigned to the Army Albany Recruiting Battalion, headquartered at the Watervliet Arsenal, have been inducted in the Sergeant Audie Murphy Club in recognition of them being outstanding noncommissioned officers. Sgt. 1st Class Rufino Quinones, Staff Sgt. Vimarie Pedro, and Staff Sgt. Matthew Biagiotti were inducted into the U.S. Army Sergeant Audie Murphy Club during a ceremony at the arsenal. ....
35 Glenville, NY Eighteen New York Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to the 1108th Company (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) said goodbye to their families during a ceremony held at the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Glenville on February 13. The Soldiers departed for Fort Bliss, Texas on Valentin s Day, February 14. They will train there for 30 days before deploying to the Middle East. The company s Soldiers specialize in dealing with improvised explosive devices, and disposing of unexploded bombs, grenades, and shells. The explosive disposal experts will be part of Task Force Spartan Shield, the U.S. Army force in the region which is headquartered in Kuwait and operates across the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. ....
Share This: On January 27th, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Terry Adirim announced that the Pentagon would vaccinate some 40 detainees at GITMO (Guantanamo Naval Station). Adirim, who was appointed by Biden on Inauguration day, has already drawn sharp criticism for the decision. A kind of firestorm erupted over whether these Islamist terrorist detainees should receive a vaccine before the average American. The controversy then spread to several U.S. states which also planned to vaccinate prisoners ahead of most civilians. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, speaking at The Villages, a large community for seniors in central Florida, was also against vaccinating prisoners before ordinary citizens. “Some of these states are vaccinating prisoners instead of seniors,” he said. “They’re vaccinating drug addicts instead of seniors.” ....