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BC David Piper

Battalion Chief David Piper (with the District since 10/06/97) manages the Orland Fire Protection District’s Operational Services. These services include: Training, EMS, and Special Operations. Each of the above areas of Operation Service is overseen by a Lieutenant...

ROTC Cadet Riley Howell

Hailed as a hero for knocking a shooter off his feet in a UNC Charlotte classroom, Riley Howell was posthumously awarded two of the military’s highest honors in his hometown of Waynesville this week. Howell, 21, and classmate Ellis “Reed” Parlier, 19, died when a...

MAJ Stephen V. Long

Specialist [at that time] Stephen Long, Alpha Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion survived nearly dying in a combat air assault on the island of Grenada that saw three of eight helicopters in the first wave crash. Major Stephen Long was one of the one hundred and...

1SG Glenn Harris

1SG Glen Harris of Bravo Company, 3rd Ranger Battalion survived the terrible battle of Mogadishu, Somalia – the Black Hawk Down battle – to later drown in the Chattahoochee River at Fort Benning, Georgia during a training exercise when his parachute landed...

Memorial Day

Members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment place American flags at the graves of U.S. soldiers buried in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery in preparation for Memorial Day May 24, 2012. It only seems appropriate that Honor365 honor all of those who have become...