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BALTIMORE (Feb. 11, 2014) – The United States Army Air Forces, which became the U.S. Air Force in 1947, was home to the 332nd Fighter Group “Redtails” piloted by the Tuskegee Airmen. Until 1948 women were not to allowed to serve in the U.S. military. On May 15, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the bill into law that established …
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declared freedom for slaves in states not under Union control, allowing blacks to fight for the Union. That same year, the 19th Regiment Infantry, U.S. Colored Troops, Maryland Volunteers was formed in Benedict, Md. The 19th was comprised of a mixture of free blacks and of slaves purchased by the U.S. government for their …
WESTMINSTER, Md. (Dec. 21, 2013) – High school football players from across Maryland competed in the sixth annual Maryland Crab Bowl senior all-star game at McDaniel College, Gill Stadium, Dec. 21, 2013. The college was home to the Baltimore Ravens’ summer training camp until the 2011 season. The Maryland State High School Football All-Star Game, started the Maryland Crab Bowl …
During my a part of deployment I was stationed at Camp Taji, Iraq, also known as Camp Cooke, in honor of Command Sgt. Maj. Eric F. Cooke. It’s an area about 20 miles north of Baghdad. The place is in the Sunni Triangle, was an Iraqi Republican Guard base and served as a manufacture center for chemical weapons. Taji became …
BALTIMORE (Sept. 3, 2013) – Sundown on September 4 marks the beginning of the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah. Maryland Defense Force Chaplain (Capt.) Chesky Tenenbaum, the first bearded defense force chaplain of any state, held a pre-Rosh Hashanah service for Maryland Guard Service members at the Fifth Regiment Armory. Translated from Hebrew as “Head of the Year,” Rosh Hashanah celebrates …
BALTIMORE (June 25, 2013) – Firefighters of Baltimore’s Engine Company 45 will soon be able to break bread in a recently renovated kitchen, thanks to a training partnership with the Maryland Army National Guard’s 244th Engineer Company. The 244th contacted the office of Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake in August 2012 regarding possibilities to take part in community-based training projects. …
REISTERSTOWN, Md. (April 21, 2013) — The Maryland Army National Guard completed its 2013 Best Warrior Competition at Camp Fretterd Military Reservation April 21, 2013, to determine the year’s best Soldier and noncommissioned officer. Sgt. Delvon Anderson was named the Noncommissioned Officer of the Year and Spc. Robert Anderson was named the Soldier of the Year. Although the two share …
TOWSON, Md. (Feb. 23, 2013) — The Maryland Society, Sons of the American Revolution awarded six Maryland Guard service members the Maryland 400 Distinguished Service Medal during a luncheon today at the Towson Country Club, Towson Md. The luncheon coincided with former President George Washington’s birthday which was Feb. 22, 1732, some 281 years ago. Sgt. Delvon Anderson, Staff Sgt. …
Soldiers from the Maryland Army National Guard’s 253rd Engineer Company (Sapper) in La Plata, Md., spent their drill weekend training with a Mobile Training Team to become certified robot operators. The Jan. 12-13 drill weekend also included breaching doors, Modern Army Combatives and weapons familiarity. “This is the first time the robots have been brought in. This is something that …
Members from several Maryland Guard units are deployed to Crisfield Md., to assist local authorities with house-to-house evacuations on Oct. 30, 2012. The Servicemembers have been stationed in the area since Sunday performing 24-hour operations. Servicemembers helped first responders evacuate senior citizens, families and children to the Elk Lodge, a temporary staging area for residents. Residents were then transported to …
