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James Brox, Bus Driver; who were you cheering for in the College National Championship; I was going for Clemson. I ended up falling asleep before the game was over, but I woke up and watched highlights of Clemson winning.
Military Police, Harnett Co. Police, Cumberland Co. Police, Spring Lake Police and State Troopers all participated in Operation Enfore Standards on Feb. 19. The operation took place on Hwy. 87 at the Cumberland Co. and Harnett Co. Line, and gave troopers and Soldiers the opportunity to enforce traffic laws and standards.
Soldiers with 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division make their way under barbed wire
during the Best Ranger Competition at Fort Benning, Georgia, Saturday. The annual event, which takes
place over three days, is open to all units with Ranger-coded positions and salutes the best two-man
“buddy” team Army-wide.Courtesy of 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Facebook
Womack Army Medical Center security forces participate in an active-shooting drill, July 29, at the
center. The training focuses on helping WAMC security personnel meet the goal of responding to a
crisis situation within two minutes.
Pfc. Vanessa Martinez, a Paratrooper assigned to Bravo Company, 82nd Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division applies sealant to the inner surface of an axle of a Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck during routine maintenance at Fort Bragg, N.C., July 21, 2015. The 82nd BSB maintains a high level of readiness as it has assumed the outload support battalion mission in support of 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Abn. Div., the nation’s Global Response Force. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Mary S. Katzenberger/Released)
Francisco Cancino 249th Composite Supply Company, 189th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 82nd Sustainment Brigade dances around the heavy bag throwing jabs to the face and heavy punches to the body at Towle Physical Fitness Center Aug. 14. He is practicing for a chance to be a part of the All Army Boxing Team.
Workers survey
Manchester Road,
Wednesday, and
begin the process
of evaluating the
work needed to fix
the road. Repairs
are likely to be suspended
until after
Hurricane Matthew
comes through the
area this weekend.
Congratulations to the Stubbs Family on their bundle of joy and for delivering Womack Army Medical Center's first baby of 2017, Jan. 1 at 5:29 a.m. Baby boy, Aestus E. Stubbs, weighed 6lbs., 5oz and his name means rolling tide of fire. Maj. Emiliana Escueta, 204th Forward Surgical Team, mom and Lt. Col. Toihunta Stubbs, 82nd Airborne Division brigade surgeon, dad, are both credentialed at WAMC. Baby Stubbs' name was inspired by dad's love for the University of Alabama, Roll Tide!
In photo: Col. Lance Raney, WAMC commander and Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Stoddard, WAMC CSM, presented a New Year's gift, sponsored by AAFESS, to the parents of WAMC's 2017 Baby of the Year.
Beat your Boots gets the crowed on the dance floor at Sports USA. left, Chris Roberts, SPC 3ed MISB and Jacob Eubanks SPC 9th MISB.
The Soldiers Salute Concert featured Kelsea Ballerini, recording artist with Black River Entertainment sang her single “Love Me Like You Mean It” and other songs before a full house at Sports USA April 2 2015. She was the headliner of a Solders Concert that featured Fort Bragg solders and family members singing for the crowed. Featured acts were Beat your Boots, Patten and Goff, Kaylin Hedges, and Tiffanie Woods, all with Fort Bragg connections.
Photo by Staff Sgt. Michael Mellons/DIVARTY PAO
Maj. Gen. Erik Kurilla, 82nd Airborne Division commanding general, Col. Michael Hertzendorf, 82nd Abn. Div. chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Stephen J. Townsend, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg commanding general, and Maj. Gen. Richard Clarke, outgoing 82nd Abn. Div. commanding general, inspect the line during the division change of command ceremony at Fort Bragg’s Pike Field, Tuesday. The ceremony marked the end of Clarke’s, and the beginning of Kurilla’s, command of the 82nd Abn. Div. Clarke will continue to serve the Army as the vice director of strategic plans and policy for the Joint Staff at the Pentagon.
Staff Sergeant (Ret) Benjamin Hutchins received the Silver Star for actions while a tactical air control party airman supporting the 82nd Airborne Division's 4th Brigade Combat Team in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan November 4 2009.
Participants at the Pre-Race Party at the Holiday Inn Bordeaux in Fayetteville, NC on May 3, 2014. Guest speaker Meb Keflezighi. (Photo by Lily Marrero/Fort Bragg Family & MWR Marketing Services Branch).
Soldiers of the XVIII Airborne Corps enjoy cake after the ceremony, Tuesday at the XVIII Abn. Corps Headquarters.
Parachutes of the 27th Engineer Battalion (Combat)(Airborne) fill the skies over Normandy Drop Zone, Friday.
Jumping in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of D-day, the paratroopers began the day with a historical brief
on the sacrifices made so many decades before on the Normandy, France peninsula, during World War II.
Lt. Gen. Joseph
Anderson and Command
Sgt. Maj. Isaia
Vimoto, the XVIII Airborne
Corps command team,
assist Robert Charles
DeGlopper and Raymond
DeGlopper, the nephews
of Medal of Honor
recipient, Charles N.
DeGlopper, in the unveiling
of the archway for the
newly-named, DeGlopper
Air Assault School at
Fort Bragg, Jan. 22. The
school was renamed in
honor of Pfc. DeGlopper,
from the 325th Glider
Infantry Regiment, for his
gallant actions in World
War II and as a tribute to
the gliders that brought
equipment and supplies
behind enemy lines
in support of airborne
operations just as air
assaults do on modern
battlefields.
Over the weekend elements from 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 505th PIR, and 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment fired more than 30 Tube-launched, optically-tracked, wire guided missiles from Observation Point 9.
People of Fort Bragg
What are you looking forward to watching the Olympics?
“The gymnastics. I think we have a good team this
year.” — Minnie Green
FMWR employee
FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- USASOC personnel thanked Medal of Honor recipient retired Col. Roger H. Donlon and his wife Norma, for their service and sacrifices during the unveiling of USASOC's newly constructed Medal of Honor display.
Road march
Sgt. 1st Class Edward Jones, Troop D, 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment,
loads his car with dummy weapons on Feb. 13. He is preparing for a
road march the 1st Sqdn., 17th Cav. held Wednesday. For more photos, visit
A paratrooper from the British army’s 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment drives an all-terrain vehicle during a field training exercise with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, Aug. 6.
Sgt. 1st Class Catharine M. Audette, a paratrooper
assigned to 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd
Airborne Division, runs beside Bastogne Street,
April 30, at Fort Bragg, Audette is part of an international
community of runners paired with children
or adults who, due to physical or mental disability,
cannot run. Audette runs for Letty, a 6-year-old girl,
from Chicago, who has no muscular strength and
lives confined to a wheelchair.
Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Klein, left, platoon sergeant for 561st Military Police
Company, 716th Military Police Battalion, assigned to 16th MP Brigade, Fort
Bragg, encourages members of his platoon to participate in “Memorial Day
Murph,” a cross-fi t workout.
In a room full of music and laughter, the dance floor was packed with dads sporting suit or their best dress uniforms and daughters in their ballroom finest. The Father Daughter Ball at the Fort Bragg
Club on Sept. 19 was a hit, with hundreds dancing to pop songs, entering drawings, and making lasting
memories at the vintage photo booth.
LTC. Marcus Wright, Battalion Commander of the 1-505, Sgt Maj Andrew Bristow, CSM of the 1-505 PIR, Cpt. David Ken, D company 1-505, and First Sgt. Carlos Campos, D company 1-505, stand near CSM Donovan E. Watts' flag on the Field of Honor. CSM Watts was killed in action in Iraq on November 21, 2006. 1st. Sgt. Campos had this to say about CSM Watts: I was working for the Brigade Command Sgt. Major at the time, and he wore glasses and he lost a little screw in his glasses, and so me and the Com Sgt Maj are looking for this little screw, and he (Watts) walked in, and he started looking for it with us, and course, he’s a CSM but he always brought himself to our level. He was the only CSM I ever had who made his rounds around the full battalion, all the companies, talked to all the soldiers, found out what was going on with them and their concerns. He made it his daily mission to do that. Whenever we saw him we lit up, someone was coming around to talk to us, to see what we were doing today, the training we were doing. He was very down to earth.
A paratrooper assigned to 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division kisses his daughter goodbye, Jan. 28, at Fort Bragg, before departing for an advise and assist mission in Iraq. About 1,000 paratroopers from 3rd BCT have deployed to coach, teach and mentor Iraqi Security Forces to enable them to fight Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Just up the road from the Trapper Creek Wilderness trailhead is Government Mineral Springs. Back in the day there was a fancy hotel here (it burned to the ground many years ago), built near the mineral springs. Camille and I somehow inserted the word "hot" into our idea about what this place was like. After schlocking around in the mud and looking at the cold water we realized they were mineral springs only, the hot springs are all down the road, closer to Carson. Camille even got some devils club thorns stuck in her finger. Ouch! Sure wish there was some hot springs to dip my feet into.
These mineral springs, called Iron Mike, are obviously heavy in iron. I don't know why you'd want to drink this stuff. My parents have a well with lots of iron in the water and that water is not good for drinking. yuck! As an added twist there was even a notice posted from the State of Washington near the pump at Government Springs that due to high coliform levels the water wasn't even safe to drink. Bah! We got back in the car and drove back to Portland.
The Forest Service does have a lovely little cabin here that one can rent. It is very close to several trailheads. Just don't drink the water...
Spc. James Hamrick, left, his wife, Shante, and son, Zachariah, 8 months, share information with Tyrone Taylor, Community Care Unit cadre, July 18, at Fort Bragg. The CCU provides a central location for wounded warriors to manage their care.
Soldiers practice target shooting at Range 34 on June 20. The Soldiers, who were with the 3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment, spent the hot afternoon shooting at pop up targets and refining their marksmanship.
Photo by Hope Myers/Paraglide
The Fort Bragg Family of the Year Ceremony happened on Dec. 3 at the Main Post Chapel. The top five famlies were presented with awards. The Family of the year was Sgt. William Taylor, 18th Abn. Corps, 18th FA Bde., 3-27 FAR, and his wife, Marsharee, and children Javian, Marshawn, Michael and Jaxson. Photos by Hope Myers/Paraglide.
Mothers and daughters in matching outfits made their way to tables decorated with tea cups, tiaras and flowers for the 13th annual Mother Daughter Tea and Fashion Show. Stephanie Clemons and her daughter Sofia wore teacup themed outfits to the event.
Sgt. Randall Salinas, left, shakes hands with Harold Medlock, chief of police for Fayetteville Police Department, during the Basic Law Enforcement Training Academy graduation held at the Village Baptist Church in Fayetteville, Jan. 23.
Staff Sgt. Shawn Felch, a Womack Army Medical Center medic, demonstrates an Aussie, or face-forward rappel at Fort Bragg, Tuesday. Felch and members of DeGlopper Air
Assault School familiarize congressional staff members with Army operations.
The Airborne Special Ops Museum tells the story of Army airborne and special operations units from their 1940 origin and movement to the Fayetteville area in March of 1942, through the present. The 59,000 square-foot, 22.5 million dollar museum houses many rare and impressive artifacts, including a C-47 “Skytrain” airplane suspended from the ceiling, complete with a paratrooper in the door. A fully restored CG-4A glider, one of only a handful that remain from WWII, is on display, along with two helicopters, a Sheridan tank, and a complete collection of uniforms, equipment and weapons spanning the sixty-year history of this exciting segment of the armed forces.
***Taken with a Canon Rebel XTi that has been converted to digital infrared.
My husband and I took the kids (minus Darren) to the newly opened National Infantry Museum located here at Fort Benning. It was very nice!
Congratulations to the Stubbs Family on their bundle of joy and for delivering Womack Army Medical Center's first baby of 2017, Jan. 1 at 5:29 a.m. Baby boy, Aestus E. Stubbs, weighed 6lbs., 5oz and his name means rolling tide of fire. Maj. Emiliana Escueta, 204th Forward Surgical Team, mom and Lt. Col. Toihunta Stubbs, 82nd Airborne Division brigade surgeon, dad, are both credentialed at WAMC. Baby Stubbs' name was inspired by dad's love for the University of Alabama, Roll Tide!
In photo: Col. Lance Raney, WAMC commander and Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Stoddard, WAMC CSM, presented a New Year's gift, sponsored by AAFESS, to the parents of WAMC's 2017 Baby of the Year.
Artist James Dietz presents his, work First In Last Out, to LTG Joseph Anderson. The painting depicts a patrol in Afghanistan and will hang in the Airborne and Special Operations Museum. 29 Jan 15.
The Exchange's Airborne PX hosted a Make a Wish party for Alexia Lawson, a 5 year old who has Tricuspid Atresia, March 5. Alexia is the daughter of staff Sgt. Joshua Lawson and Patricia Lawson, and wanted a Frozen themed party. Her wish, granted through sponsorship and the Make A Wish Foundation, was to go to Disney World.
2nd Lt. Stephanie Hecker, platoon leader with Battery A, 3rd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division
provides direction and supervision during a training event in May.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno presents Purple Heart Medals, May 1, to Chief Warrant Officer 3 Richard Puza, left, and Staff Sgt. Oscar Vega-Almodovar, both from Company C, 3rd Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, for injuries suffered during an indirect fire attack on Forward Operating Base Shank, Logar Province, Afghanistan, July 2012.
A Fire Fighter high fives Daisies and Brownies from Girl Scout Troop 1259 during a fire suit demonstration at Fire Station 3. The scouts interactive field trip is filled with high energy and squeals of delight Nov. 19, at Fort Bragg, N. C.
World War II D-Day veteran, John Roman (center), a 4th Infantry Division Soldier, salutes and his wife Jacqueline (left) places here hand over her heart while the 82nd Airborne Division color guard marches into position during a ceremony at the 82nd Airborne Division Signal Memorial June 5, 2018 in the town of Sainte Mere Eglise, France. John was on the landing crafts that came onto Utah Beach the morning of June 6, 1944.
Photo by Lewis Perkins/Paraglide
Col. Brett T. Funck, Fort Bragg Garrison commander, left, and Melissa Townsend, wife of Lt. Gen. Stephen J. Townsend, Fort Bragg and XVIIII Airborne Corps commander, stand with Dianna Bowers, a Fort Bragg volunteer during the Iron Mike Award for Volunteer Service ceremony, July 27.