CSM Donovan Watts

Jun 6, 2019 | Army, Uncategorized

When they play the Army song, I think back to the many times I stood alongside CSM Donovan Watts, singing that song at Fort Benning. “Watts was born in Anniston, Alabama on Sept. 10, 1960. He enlisted in the Army upon graduating high school as an infantryman,...

SPC Daniel Jason Freeman

Jun 5, 2019 | Army

SPC Daniel J. Freeman, in the wake of September 11th, enlisted in the Army’s Delayed Entry Program a year before he graduated from high school. I met him just long enough to pin his jump wings when he graduated Airborne School. He joined the 173rd Airborne...

Sergeant Frank E McKee

Jun 2, 2019 | Army

War: World War, 1939-1945 Branch: Army Unit: 2nd Battalion, 508th Paratroop Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division Service Location: Florida; Fort Benning, Georgia; Tennessee; South Carolina; Camp Shanks, New York; Northern Ireland; Great Britain; Normandy, France;...

ROTC Cadet Riley Howell

May 30, 2019 | Army

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

May 29, 2019 | Army

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

May 28, 2019 | Army

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...