WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa said today that Lucas Robert Castro of Davenport has received an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., for the 2017-2018 school year.
Resource Fair, Panel Discussion, Keynote Address from Paralympian and Veteran at Veterans Conference Wednesday at St. Ambrose
DAVENPORT, Iowa —St. Ambrose University will host the 2017 Eastern Iowa/Western Illinois Veterans Conference beginning at noon on March 1 at the Rogalski Center.
NORFOLK, Va. — The Coast Guard announced Tuesday that it finalized its Major Incident Investigation (MII) Report into the July 2016 death of a Coast Guard recruit at Coast Guard Training Center (TRACEN) Cape May, N.J. Seaman Recruit Aaron Redd died July 7, 2016, after collapsing at the training center during an initial fitness assessment run with his recruit company.
Tragically, every day in America, 20 veterans take their own lives. Many of our nation’s veterans face post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other serious mental health issues upon their return home, and these veterans have sacrificed too much to ever feel alone when in a crisis. When these veterans reach out, we as a country owe it to them to answer their call.
MCMURDO STATION, Antarctica – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star arrived at the National Science Foundation’s McMurdo Station Tuesday after cutting a resupply channel through more than 60 miles of Antarctic ice in the Ross Sea.
PORT HUENEME, Calif.- “We Build, We Fight” has been the motto of the U. S. Navy’s Construction Force, known as the “Seabees”, for the past 75 years. Clinton, Iowa native and Camanche High School graduate, Constructionman Cody Featherston, builds and fights around the world as a member of a naval construction battalion center located in Port Hueneme, California.
Aurora, CO. —TREA: The Enlisted Association (TREA), a federally chartered Veteran’s Service Organization headquartered in Aurora, CO, recently got stronger by adding 11,353 former members of the National Association for Uniformed Services (NAUS) to its roster.
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