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  • Sacrifice: Airmen honor solemn promise to fallen comrades

    He wrote his mother every week.Every week, Bettie Ingram would anxiously await the handwritten letter, mailed from halfway around the world to her home on Third Street in Pratt City, Alabama.However, this week there was no letter, only news - the worst kind. Her son, U.S. Navy Gunner's Mate First

  • Patriot Files: a rainy day in June

    The light rain began to soak through his uniform.It was nearly 4 a.m. and Tech. Sgt. Bill Toombs stood outside his barracks, waiting for a ride to the chow hall, when he heard something strange off in the distance."Listen to the thunder," a friend said, as both he and Toombs heard the resounding

  • 'For you, dad': chaplain honors father at Police Week run

    Carrying a weighted camouflage backpack and sporting a knee-brace over top of his uniform, Chaplain (Maj.) Jack Stanley, ran along the perimeter road around RAF Croughton, England, May 11.Still recovering from a recent surgery, the 422nd Air Base Group chaplain pushed himself onward - uttering a

  • Legacy Project: ride of your life

    He fumbled with the blue, index cards as he leaned into the microphone and spoke to a crowded room.After 23 years, this was the last time he would wear the U.S. Air Force uniform. He was retiring, and May 8, 2015, was the last day anyone would call him Master Sgt. Shawn Leach."Life happens," he

  • Finding Bela

    A tension hung in the air like a thick, dampening fog as a man in worn clothes nervously pushed an old broom through the streets of Berlin, Feb. 27, 1943. No one spoke to him, or even seemed to notice anything beyond his cloth badge, marked with a single word, written in German and set into the

  • 423rd CES civilian bowls his way to world championship

    A cool, spring wind swept over the athletic field at RAF Alconbury, England, March 23, as the reigning Bowls world champion reached down to pick up a weighted, scarlet ball from the grassy turf.Balancing the weight in his right hand, Nick Brett, 423rd Civil Engineer Squadron water and fuels shop