HUNTSVILLE — It’s not hard to understand why Travis Vendela was becoming a cynic.The now 40-year-old Wyoming native is a retired Sergeant First Class in the Army and served multiple combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. In February of 2007, while working with a reconnaissance unit in ...

Those who wish to pay respects to 1st Lt. Kenneth “Kage” Allen, an Air Force pilot from Perry who was killed in a training accident last month in England, may do so this weekend.There will be a visitation/viewing for Allen at Russon Brothers Mortuary at 1941 Main St. in Farmington from 4-8 ...

BOUNTIFUL — Don Milne is on a mission to make sure the fallen heroes of World War II are forever remembered — but he’s looking for some help.Milne, 59, of Bountiful, recently launched a nonprofit called “Stories Behind the Stars,” an ambitious project that aims to compile short ...

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — By any account, Col. Matthew Fritz's quarter-century military career in the sky has been distinguished. According to <a href="https://www.419fw.afrc.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/2209461/colonel-matthew-m-fritz/" target="_blank">his Air ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE LAKENHEATH, United Kingdom — An Air Force fighter pilot who died Monday after crashing off the coast of England has been identified as 1st Lt. Kenneth “Kage” Allen, of Northern Utah.According to a statement from the U.S. Air Force, Allen was killed when his F-15C Eagle ...

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Emily Thompson’s childhood career dreams were pretty standard — veterinarian, police officer.But as she grew older, she says the vision slowly shifted to something else, eventually crystallizing with a desire to become an engineer.That aspiration was never realized ...