Education
Unlike active duty servicemembers, who still have a full-time job, housing and other benefits in place when they return from a year-long deployment, returning Guard and Reserve soldiers and airmen may face an insecure future. Many return home to find their jobs gone, their income reduced from a few thousand
Education
The task of finding a job after military service can be particularly overwhelming. The economy is bad, and companies receive hundreds of resumes for one open position. So how does someone whose norm has been pulling security in Iraq or driving a Humvee in Afghanistan find a job in the
Education
When servicemembers are deployed, they want to know that their families are safe and taken care of. In order to focus on their mission and the job at hand, servicemembers need to know that the home front fires are burning strongly, that there is someone there to take care of
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Community spirit was on the table Tuesday evening as more than 150 business leaders gathered with their partners from the Association of the U.S. Army and Air Force Association for a Community Partner Appreciation Dinner held at the Great American Casino in Lakewood. The event originated as an AUSA and AFA
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The last time Sebrena Lora Cagle saw her son, Pfc. Randy Armstrong, it was August 2009. He was on a gurney at Madigan Army Medical Center receiving treatment for injuries sustained in Iraq, his hand "basically blown apart" by a gunshot wound. In April, Cagle was in a hospital herself, recovering
Operation Family Support
Military technology new and old, inflatable bounce houses, free food and thousands of Tootsie Rolls dropped from a hovering helicopter were highlights of this year's Military Family Support Day, held Saturday at Cabela's in Lacey. Sponsored by the Hawks Prairie Rotary Club, the event was a celebration of military families, said
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He was a gun runner for the CIA during the Cuban missile crisis, flew contract planes for a brothel, spent time as a pilot flying for Libya's Muammar Khadafi and shot a charging lion at 10 feet. By his own account, Kent's Ron Rismon has lived a storied and exceptional
Operation Family Support
In 2006, Shirley Schmunk traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend a memorial in remembrance of her only child, Jeremiah, who had died two years earlier in Iraq, and other fallen soldiers. "It was a beautiful service," she said of the White House Commission on Remembrance's Time of Remembrance tribute, "but it
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In today's era of technological communication methods such as e-mail, text messaging and FaceBook, the simple handwritten letter has become a relic. But there is something to be said for holding a piece of paper and knowing that the words written on it were created by a live person, that pen
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They are America's fighting elite, "quiet professionals" who have waged unconventional warfare on enemies from the jungles of Vietnam to the mountains of Afghanistan. And on Aug. 14, a few hundred former, retired and active-duty Special Forces soldiers came together for the Special Forces Association, Chapter XVI William R. Card Memorial