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Wanted: Dead airman’s kin and a lost karaoke outfit

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 12:53am

I like tossing impossible problems out to see how quickly you guys solve them. Sink your teeth into these:

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Seth Pack sits with his mother, Sylvia Newman, as he talks about his recovery Monday at his home in Ogden. Pack lost part of his left leg and suffered injuries to his right leg when he stepped on a land mine in Afghanistan. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Wounded soldier, his mother home in Ogden for the holidays

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 7:36am

Seth Pack came home to Ogden on Sunday night, and I can finally tell you who his mom is.

Seth, 20, is the Ogden soldier horribly wounded in Afghanistan on July 1. Much of his left leg was blown off when he stepped on a mine, and he has spent the last five months undergoing multiple surgeries and therapy.

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(Associated Press file photo) The World Trade Center towers burn and one starts to fall on September 11, 2001.

Impacts of 9/11 far-reaching -- and local

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, September 10, 2011 - 12:35am

OGDEN -- All Utahns go through intense security at the airport because of the terrorist attacks 10 years ago Sunday, but how many know:

Why one museum's volunteers had to have background checks before they could show visitors the displays?

Why there are so many Saudi students in Utah and so few Iranians?

Why the books you check out at the library could still get you in trouble?

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Cpl. Eric DeHart, of Birnamwood, picks up a device he invented that's placed in culverts in Afghanistan to prevent the Taliban from hiding bombs. (Meg Jones/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MCT)

Soldier invents device to foil bombs

Meg Jones Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Last updated Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 10:28am

FORWARD OPERATING BASE PASAB, Afghanistan -- The Taliban will use just about anything to hide bombs, and a perfect spot is a culvert underneath a road.

Now many of the culverts near this base in Kandahar province are no longer prime bomb-hiding locations, thanks to the ingenuity of a Wisconsin soldier.

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(NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner) Sergio Arruda (right) talks about son U.S. Army Cpl. Raphael Arruda at a birthday celebration in South Ogden on Saturday. His son would have turned 22 on Saturday, but an IED killed him July 16 while he was serving in Afghanistan.

Many honor birthday of slain S. Ogden soldier

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, July 23, 2011 - 10:52pm

SOUTH OGDEN -- Raphael Arruda would have been 22 years old on Saturday. His family and friends remember him as a man who was quick with a joke, the kind of man who could walk into a room and turn any situation into a good time.

It was a quality that served him well as a U.S. Army corporal in the Bar Kunar District of Afghanistan, where he kept his fellow soldiers laughing.

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Utah soldier among 3 killed in Afghanistan attack

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 11:56am

A Utah soldier was among three troops killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, the military announced Thursday.

Enemy forces attacked the unit of Army Specialist Preston J. Suter, 22, of SandyJordan C. Schumann, 24, of Port Saint Lucie with an improvised explosive device on Tuesday in Paktia Province, a Pentagon statement said.

Also killed in the same attack were fellow military police members Specialist Jordan C. Schumann, 24, of Port Saint Luci, Fla and Staff Sgt. Joshua A. Throckmorton, 28, of Battle Creek Mich.

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(The Associated Press) This undated photo provided by the U.S. Army on Tuesday shows U.S. Army Spc. Michael Bushling, who has been missing for more than a week after phoning a friend to tell him he was having car trouble. Bushling’s vehicle was found about 60 miles from the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Ground, where he was stationed in Utah’s West Desert.

Father coming to Utah to help find missing soldier

Lynn DeBruin, The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - 11:06pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Army Spc. Joseph Michael Bushling had a tough year following his recent divorce and the suicide last year of his younger brother, but was said to be looking forward to a new post in Texas and a career as a nurse.

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100 soldiers returning to Utah from Iraq

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, May 13, 2011 - 7:40am

SALT LAKE CITY — About 100 Utah National Guard soldiers are returning home after a year of service in Iraq.

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Search under way for missing Utah soldier

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - 8:59am

DUGWAY PROVING GROUNDS -- Authorities at a remote military installation in Utah's west desert are searching for a medical facility worker who hasn't been heard from since Sunday.

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