COL Margaret Bailey

Mar 5, 2018 | Army

Colonel Bailey was born in Selma, AL.  She graduated from Dunbar High School, Fraternal Hospital, School of Nursing, Montgomery, AL in 1938 and in 1959 from San Francisco State College with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Colonel Bailey’s civilian nursing career began at...

SSG Barry A. Sadler

Mar 4, 2018 | Air Force, Army

Staff Sergeant Barry Allen Sadler was born in Carlsbad, NM, on November 1, 1940. His parents divorced when he was very young, and his father died of cancer when Sadler was just seven. His mother managed various restaurants and bars around the Southwest, moving the...

1LT James Alton Gardner

Mar 3, 2018 | Army

James Gardner was born in Dyersburg, Tennessee on 7 February 1943. He was recruited as a football player for West Point by Coach Tony Bullotta along with a number of other promising talents from Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas. He played plebe football as an...

SSG Dennis Alexander Pracht

Mar 1, 2018 | Army

On the morning of 19 JUN 2009, my team was tasked with an escort mission for newly graduated classes of Afghan National Army Soldiers and Afghan National Police Officers from Kandahar Air Field, Kandahar, Afghanistan to two Combat Posts located in Helmand Province,...

Millie Bailey

Feb 27, 2018 | Army

Millie Bailey grew up in the Deep South. During World War II, she joined the Army. She ended up the Commander of a women’s unit. Now, she lives in a Senior Apartment complex in Columbia, Howard County. It’s been a memorable journey for this accomplished Senior...

SFC Daniel Metcalfe

Feb 23, 2018 | Army

29-year-old US Army Sergeant 1st Class Daniel T. Metcalfe, from New York was killed on 29th September 2012 when his unit came under fire from enemy forces at Sayyid Abad, Afghanistan. He served with the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade...