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 ...
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Northern Utah’s annual sonic boom season is now upon us.Every year, seemingly without fail, residents along the Wasatch Front report mysterious sonic booms or unexplained tremors.The source is usually Hill Air Force Base.The Air Force began its yearly round of large ...
NORTH OGDEN — Jennie Taylor prefers to focus on the beneficial takeaways, not dwell on the disheartening details of what led to her husband’s death in Afghanistan.The Standard-Examiner recently obtained via the Freedom of Information Act a copy of the Army’s investigation report into Maj. ...
Civilian contractors hired to screen Afghan commandos for terroristic radicalization missed opportunities to thwart Asfar Khan from killing Maj. Brent Taylor, an Army investigation concluded.A former counterintelligence officer interviewed by Army investigators described some of the civilian ...
OGDEN — A group of Weber County veterans are working to ensure soldiers of all stripes are honored at the George E. Wahlen Ogden Veterans Home.Members of the Weber County Veterans Advisory Committee, the official military advising arm of the county government system, are trying to raise funds ...
