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  Flag Officers 4 America describe themselves as “Retired military leaders who pledged to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and  domestic.   Although retired from active service, each of us feels bound by that oath to do what we can, in our capacity today, to protect our nation from the threats to her freedom.” The Flag Officers’ have many issues, with a top one being the Use of “the U.S. military as political pawns with thousands of troops deployed around the U.S. Capitol Building, patrolling fences guarding against a non-existe...

A sudden blast jolted Neal Gouker awake. The explosion from an Iraqi Scud missile slammed him against a wall in his barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. “The place was on fire, and bullets were going off,” recalled Gouker, 50, formerly of Glassport. “For 5 miles around, there were broken windows. It was chaotic. “My left side was hit with shrapnel. It hit a nerve, and I had temporary paralysis and a bad limp on my left side. I had to work through that.” Three decades have passed since that devastating attack on the Westmoreland County-based 14th Quartermaster Detachment. But the date ...

World War I is becoming one of America’s forgotten wars. Ask the average American about it and many would not know what you are talking about. A few more knowledgeable people may recall General “Black Jack” Pershing, its overall U.S. commander or President Woodrow Wilson. But few outside of West Point or the Pentagon would recognize the name of General Peyton C. March. Yet this Easton-born soldier, the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army from 1918 to 1921, was largely responsible for designing the powerful role of the Chief of Staff in the U.S. Army of today.

The Maryland State Board of Education recently turned down an appeal about a Title IX complaint from the parent of a former Calvert County high school student. Dunkirk resident Beth Bubser, whose daughter, Catherine, played tennis at Northern High School, originally filed a complaint with the Calvert public school system’s director of student services on Sept. 8, 2019, over a lack of equity for girls’ sports and both tennis teams at the school. The director at the time, Kim Roof, replied that her investigation did not reveal violations of the federal Title IX law of 1972, according ...

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