Chief Warrant Officer Bob Turner spent most of the last year at an Army base in Afghanistan, far from his fellow sailors and the sea. The 28-year veteran was one of thousands of sailors attached by themselves to Army and Marine units, groups that trained together stateside - without them. ...more

November 2, 2008

Flags may fade but memories of friends and mentors do not. The memories of his own high school buddy still fresh, Army Staff Sgt. Phil Cuthbertson walked up to a Florida rancher on California Street recently and offered a still-vibrant flag that had flown in Iraq to the mother of his late friend. ...more

September 5, 2008

The urge to repay a good deed motivates a U.S. Army sergeant to give an American flag flown in Iraq to the mother of his high school buddy. ...more

September 5, 2008

DADE CITY - Hundreds of people lined a bustling downtown street today to watch the funeral procession of Sgt. Marcus Mathes, killed by a mortar attack in Baghdad on April 28. ...more

May 6, 2008

SEBRING — Every other night Savanna Weirick packs all her favorite things in a stroller and tells her grandparents she is going to Iraq to visit her parents. "She has a great imagination," said her grandma, Judy Kelly, as she watched her granddaughter play in the living room of her Sebring home. Judy and her husband, Mike Kelly, or Nana and Papa as Savanna calls them, have been taking care of the 2-year-old since September when her parents, Army Spc. Kairee and Sgt. John Weirick, were deployed to Iraq. Pictures of her parents in uniform are displayed throughout the house on top of the television, on the refrigerator and even printed on pillows on the couch. ...more

November 29, 2007

Retired soldier George Goldsmith is so fond of the 600 acres of twisted underbrush and towering pines on this Army training base, he plans to stay here for eternity. ...more

November 11, 2007

Perhaps not even 137-degree heat in Iraq could have prepared Norman Fabian for the grilling he received from about 30 students at Bishop Larkin Catholic School on Friday morning. ...more

September 29, 2007