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Wednesday Hero
2012-02-01 14:00:00 This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Cindy Pfc. Donny Eslinger & Smoke 20 years old from Jemison, Alabama 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Bravo Company It was a mission just as important as any other they had encountered during their time in Afghanistan. This time the 1-24 ...
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2012-01-25 14:00:00 Maj. Merlyn Hans Dethlefsen 53 years old from Royal, Iowa 354th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 355th Tactical Fighter Wing June 29, 1934 – December 14, 1987 The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Major Merlyn Hans Dethlefsen, United States Air Force, ...
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2012-01-18 14:00:00 Capt. Eddie S. Ray 57 years old from Seattle, Washington Company B, 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion, Task Force Shepherd, 1st Marine Division The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Captain Eddie S. Ray, United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving as Commanding Officer, ...
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2012-01-11 14:00:00 Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey M. Day Col. Jessie O. Farrington (Left), U.S. Army Aviation Center for Excellence deputy commander, presents Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey M. Day (Right), of the Directorate of Evaluation and Standardization, with the Air Medal with Valor for exceptionally meritorious achievement in valor. Photo Courtesy U.S. Army Taken By Nathan Pfau These ...
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2012-01-04 14:00:00 1st Lt. Loren Douglas Hagen 25 years old from Fargo, North Dakota U.S. Army Training Advisory Group February 25, 1946 – August 7, 1971 The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pride in presenting the Medal of Honor (Posthumously) to First Lieutenant Loren Douglas Hagen, United States Army ...
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2011-12-28 14:00:00 No Wednesday Hero this week. Taking a small holiday and we’ll start fresh in the new year. Related Posts:Wednesday HeroWednesday HeroHave I Taken On More Than I Can Handle?Wednesday Hero PostsWednesday Hero
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2011-12-21 14:00:00 I want to wish all our men and women of the United States Armed Forces a very Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas. You sacrifice so much for us and there’s no way we can ever properly repay it or give you enough thanks. You are all loved and respected and I hope you have a ...
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2011-12-14 14:00:00 Click Image For Full Size Marguerite Gene Arenesen (left) a member of the Coast Guard in World War II, George Warren (standing), a Canadian-born immigrant who became a naturalized American citizen at age 17 and joined the Army Air Corps shortly after the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and Thomas M. Sugg, a ...
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2011-12-07 14:00:00 This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Mrs Xoke Sgt. 1st Class Bryan E. Hall 32 years old from Elk Grove, California 1st Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division April 10, 2009 Bryan Hall received three Army commendation medals, as well as good Army achievement, good conduct and war on terrorism ...
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2011-11-30 16:00:00 Spc. Joseph A. Graves 21 years old from Discovery Bay, California 110th Military Police Company, 720th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade July 26, 2006 Spc. Joseph Graves’s dream was to work for the FBI and he saw that joining the Military was a way to help me do that. Joseph Graves enlisted in ...
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2011-11-23 14:00:00 This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Kathi Wreaths Across America has been profiled before and it will probably be profiled again because they are a great organization. For 20 years they have have laid Christmas wreaths on the headstones of our fallen heroes at Arlington National Cemetery. And this year, for their ...
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2011-11-16 14:00:00 Sgt. Kevin Stewart(Left) & Spc. David Duque(Right) Sgt. Kevin Stewart, left, congratulates Spc. David Duque on his becoming a U.S. citizen in a ceremony at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, Nov. 9. Duque is a native of Cuba. Both soldiers are members of Company E, Forward Support Element, 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort ...
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2011-11-09 14:00:00 Senior Airmen Kristian Robles Cruz (Far Left) and Amber Boyd (Right) Senior Airmen Kristian Robles Cruz and Amber Boyd from the 633rd Security Forces Squadron, which is at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., are greeted at the Newport News, Va., airport by family and coworkers Nov. 2, 2011 . The two were part of a group ...
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2011-10-26 14:00:00 Sgt. James Hinson Sgt. James Hinson, Marine Barracks Washington motor transportation operator, prepares a dish for a homeless person during a So Others Might Eat volunteer event in northwest Washington, D.C., Oct. 20, 2011. Fifteen Barracks Marines volunteered to assist the SOME staff in feeding homeless men and women from the nation’s capitol region. These ...
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2011-10-19 14:00:00 Lt.Richard Biedermann (Ret.) 89 years old from Tulsa, Oklahoma May 28, 1922 – October 3, 2011 When Dick Biedermann asked the organizing committee of the Oklahoma Honor Flights how much more was needed to be raised he was told $10,000. His response was “Piece of cake. I can raise that”. And in only four weeks ...
Wednesday Hero
2011-10-12 14:00:00 This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Cindy Capt. Theodore “Ted” Williams (Center) 83 years old from Inverness, Florida VMF-311, Marine Aircraft Group 33 (MAG-33) August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002 Everyone knows Ted Williams as one of the greatest Baseball players of all time, but many may not know that he also served his ...
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2011-10-05 14:00:00 This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Steve F/O Leland H. Pennington 24 years old from Alma Place, New York 332nd Fighter Group 1921 – April 21, 1945 Sadly, little is know about Flight Officer Leland Pennington’s military career. He joined the Military sometime in 1941 or 1942. He became one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen. ...
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2010-10-27 14:00:00 GySgt. Carlos Hathcock May 20, 1942 ? February 23, 1999 Carlos Hathcock was a United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant sniper with a service record of 93 confirmed kills. Hathcock’s record and the extraordinary details of the missions he undertook made him a legend in the Marine Corps. His fame as a sniper and his ...
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2010-10-20 14:00:00 This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Beth SSgt. Robert J. Miller 24 years old from Wheaton, Illinois Company A, Third Battalion, Third Special Forces Group January 25, 2008 Staff Sgt. Robert J. Miller was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously in a Pentagon ceremony on Wednesday, October 6, 2010. He died in Afghanistan saving his ...
Thanks to all
2009-12-19 00:12:00 So many people got behind the Wednesday Hero this week and the protest for CJ and the Milblog community as a whole. Here is the current list of all that participated – WOW! Participating blogs: A Soldier’s Perspective You Served Bouhammer The American Legion Laughing Wolf Hugh Hewitt This Ain’t Hell Castle Argghhh Boston Maggie Blackfive Miss Ladybug Hooah Wife Kiss My Gumbo Some Soldiers Mom Assoluta Tranquillita Knee Deep in the ...
Need Some Help
2009-12-18 18:04:00 The site that I’ve been using to host the Wednesday Hero posts, Ripway, has, for some unknown reason, suspended my account so I’m on the lookout for a new free file hosting site. If you know of one that’s easy to use, doesn’t use Flash and displays text files in the browser rather than ...
Biggest Wednesday Hero Ever
2009-12-17 16:17:00 I try to keep the Wednesday Hero posts as apolitical as possible, though I have done one politically motivated post in the past. Remember Casey Sheehan? But yesterday’s post, while it did have a little politics in it, meant a great deal to a lot of people. And, as it turns out, ...
Wednesday Hero
2009-12-16 13:00:00 This Weeks Post Was Suggested & Written By Laughing Wolf. This week’s Wednesday Hero is both an individual, and a group. The group we honor are the milblogs: the military blogs, spouse blogs, and support blogs who bring you the news and information you can get nowhere else. The information and news that matter ...
Wednesday Hero
2009-09-16 14:00:00 This Week’s Post Is Via Gazing At The Flag PFC Thomas Lowell Tucker 24 years old from Madras, Oregon B Company, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division June 16, 2006 Flag Gazer has a great post up on the dedication of the PFC Thomas Tucker memorial. These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives ...
Wednesday Hero Year Three, Pt. II
2009-09-09 16:38:00 This would have been with last weeks post, but Kathi, who’s done these for the past three years without even being asked to do so, was super busy and wasn’t able to get to it. So after you view it, head over to her site and thank her.
Tuesday Hero
2009-09-01 15:38:00 Today marks the third anniversary of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. Not the actual Wednesday Hero posts. Those posts were started in 2005. This marks the third year of when these posts went public for anyone to post them. And it’s taken off like gangbusters. People have signed up and wanted ...
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2009-08-26 14:00:00 Sgt. 1st Class Donald Johnson Sgt. 1st Class Donald Johnson, the electronic warfare officer of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Multi-National Division-Baghdad, talks with local Iraqi kids while on a patrol. Photo courtesy of United States Army Taken by Pfc. Evan Loyd These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others ...
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2009-08-19 14:00:00 Pfc. Tavonte Johnson Pfc. Tavonte Johnson, a field radio operator with Headquarters Company, 7th Marine Regiment, provides security after a simulated attack by a suicide bomber on Aug. 8, as part of 7th Marine Regimentâ??s pre-deployment training exercise. Photo courtesy of United States Marine Corps These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that ...
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2009-08-12 14:00:00 Yeoman 1st Class Timothy Gilbert Yeoman 1st Class Timothy Gilbert, assigned to Headquarters Company of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB 74), donates blood during a blood drive for his six-year-old daughter at the Naval Construction Battalion Center base chapel. Gilbert’s daughter has been diagnosed with atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor and is receiving chemotherapy at Tulane Childrens ...
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2009-08-05 14:00:00 Lance Cpl. Jeremy P. Tamburello 19 years old from Denver, Colorado 1st Light Armor Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force November 8, 2005
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2009-07-29 14:00:00 This Week’s Hero Was Suggested By Deb SSgt. Darrell “Shifty” Power 86 years old from Dickerson County, Virginia E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division June 17, 2009
Wednesday Hero
2009-07-22 14:00:00 Assoluta Tranquillita did a post a few days ago and after last week’s Wednesday Hero felt it would be good to profile Sgt. 1st Class Gabe of the 178th Military Police Detachment, 20th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade. Is it wrong to be jealous of a dog? Be sure to read ...
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2009-07-15 14:00:00 Sgt. 1st Class Gregory A. Rodriguez & Jacko 35 years old from Weidman, Michigan K-9 unit of the 527th Military Police Company, 709th Military Police Battalion, 18th MP Brigade September 2, 2008
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2009-07-08 14:00:00 Cpl. Reynold Armand 21 years old from Rochester, New York 2nd Assault Amphibian Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force August 7, 2007
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2009-07-01 14:50:00 Force Protection Team Members of the force protection team at Camp Eggars, Afghanistan, assess damage resulting from an explosion near the gate. A vehicle-born improvised explosive device exploded near the German Embassy and a U.S. base. Eliminating threats such as the VBIED is the focus of Army’s 3rd Counter-IED Conference that was scheduled July 28-30. These brave ...
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2009-06-17 14:00:00 Pvt. William Long 23 years old from Conway, Arkansas D Company, 2nd Battalion, 58th Infantry June 1, 2009
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2009-06-10 14:00:00 Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class (SEAL) Marc A. Lee 28 years old from Hood River, Oregon Navy SEAL August 2, 2006
Saturday Hero: D-Day
2009-06-06 13:30:00 Invasion Of Normandy June 6, 1944 It had been put off a day due to weather. Conditions over the past few days made it impossible for an invasion. The low hanging clouds would prevent aircraft from finding their targets and wind and high seas wouldn’t allow watercraft to land on the beach safely. So ...
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2009-06-03 13:00:00 Sgt. Pablo A. Calderon 26 years old from Brooklyn, New York 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division November 30, 2004
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2009-05-27 14:00:00 USS George H.W. Bush Sailors assigned to the Air Department of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) are silhouetted against the setting sun at the conclusion of flight operations. George H.W. is underway in the Atlantic Ocean conducting flight deck certifications. These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that ...
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2009-05-20 12:00:00 Sgt. Christian E. Bueno-Galdos 25 years old from Paterson, New Jersey 3rd Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade May 11, 2009
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2009-05-13 14:00:00 Spc. Robert Hamilton Spc. Robert Hamilton, from Corpus Christi, Texas, Company C, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, prepares to bandage the thumb of an Iraqi boy in Ula Market in Sadr City, April 19. The boy cut his thumb while preparing meat at a local butcher shop. These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their ...
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2009-05-06 14:00:00 1st Lt. Michael A. Cerrone 24 years old from Clarksville, Tennessee 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division November 12, 2006
Wednesday Hero
2009-04-29 14:00:00 This Week’s Post Was Suggested & Written By Mary Ann Sgt. Kenneth G. Ross 24 years old from Tucson, Arizona 7th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment September 25, 2005
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2009-04-22 14:00:00 Operations Specialist 3rd Class Leonel Yanez Operations Specialist 3rd Class Leonel Yanez (Right), from Huntington Park, Calif., monitors a radar screen in the Combat Direction Center aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). John C. Stennis is on a scheduled six-month deployment to the western Pacific Ocean. These brave men and women sacrifice so ...
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2009-04-15 14:00:00 Pfc. Alan R. Blohm 21 years old from Kenai, Alaska 425th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division December 31, 2006
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2009-04-08 14:00:00 Cpl. Aaron L. Seal 23 years old from Elkhart, Indiana 6th Engineer Support Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group, Marine Forces Reserve October 1, 2006
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2009-04-01 14:00:00 Spc. Jeffrey Scantlin, Sgt. 1st Class Erich Phillips, Sgt. John Hayes, 1st Lt. Aaron Thurman, Sgt. Hector Chavez and Spc. Tyler Hanson 2nd Platoon, Chosen Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment In the early morning hours of July 13, 2008, Soldiers from Chosen Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment were not thinking about medals as they fought ...
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2009-03-25 13:00:00 This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Elena Chief Master Sergeant Paul Wesley Airey “Chief Airey was an Airman?s Airman and one of the true pioneers for our service,” said Gen. Norton Schwartz, Air Force Chief of Staff. “He was a warrior, an innovator? and a leader with vision well ahead of his time. His legacy lives today ... |
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