HILL AIR FORCE BASE — For the third time in a little over a year, airmen from Hill Air Force Base’s two fighter wings have deployed to the Middle East.Micah Garbarino, a spokesman with the base’s 388th Fighter Wing, said members of the 388th and its reserve counterpart 419th deployed ...
NORTH OGDEN — Brent Taylor’s legacy has received a bit more cement.<a href="https://www.utah.edu/" target="_blank">University of Uta</a>h and <a href="https://www.byu.edu/" target="_blank">Brigham Young Universit</a>y officials have ...
OGDEN — For more than 50 years, members of a Northern Utah post of the American Legion — <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/alpost9utah/" target="_blank">Baker-Merrill Post</a> 9 — have been honoring their fellow veterans on Memorial Day by marking their ...
NORTH OGDEN — During his freshman year of high school in central California, Casey Kunimura was apprehended by government officials and forced to live in a rodeo grounds horse stall.Though he’d been born and raised in the United States and lived nowhere else, Kunimura also lost his ...
SALT LAKE CITY — The 2020 Memorial Day commemorations will be unlike anything offered in past years.Because of the current pandemic, changes have been made to traditional Memorial Day observances. The Utah Department of Veterans &amp; Military Affairs offers a number of alternative ...
ROY — In the United States, the 1950s Korean conflict is relatively forgotten. But for 93-year-old Marine John Cole, it’s a memory that won’t ever escape him.Historically overshadowed largely due to its place in the U.S. war chronology — sandwiched between World War II and Vietnam — ...
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — For the third time in the past month, fighter pilots from Hill Air Force Base will be working on their dark sky flying skills.Micah Garbarino, spokesman with Hill’s 388th Fighter Wing, said pilots from the active duty 388th and reserve 419th fighter wings will conduct ...
PERRY — Like many veterans from his generation, Norm Nelson can’t quite imagine what his life would have been like if not for the military.The 79-year-old Perry resident’s introduction to the armed services began with his father, who served in World War II. Following in his dad’s ...
OGDEN — Tom Montez volunteered to go to Vietnam.Looking back, the Ogden Army veteran says he had no idea what he was getting into, but if he had to make the decision again today, he’d likely do the same.“I had friends that were going,” Montez says, in a pragmatic tone. “So, I just ...
OGDEN — Dennis Howland says it was his father, Oliver Howland, who inspired him to join the Marines.“My dad was a World War II veteran and we were always a military family,” says Howland, who grew up in Iowa. “We weren’t pressured or forced to join the military, but I always knew I ...
