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READ MORE‘No one heals alone’ Ranger PTSD: As he stepped off a massive C-17 Globemaster and onto Georgia soil, Michael McKenzie knew bad news was coming when a major stopped him and quietly called him by his full name. That was the moment McKenzie, serving with the U.S. Army’s 75th Ranger […]
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READ MORERanger Steven Bevan: Local family didn’t know for decades that their father was a hero For 34 years of her life, Taft resident Amy Smith never knew her father was an Army ranger when he served in Vietnam. She didn’t know that her dad, Sgt. Steven D. Bevan, was a […]
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Christian Ranger / Free Burma Rangers / Ranger Causes May 24, 2020
READ MOREMeet the veterans who left the military but not the battlefield: Dave Eubank and the Free Burma Rangers There is an army of volunteers who seek to serve in the world’s most dangerous places – not by killing an enemy, but by rescuing the innocent. They go where most humanitarian […]
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READ MOREAs Rangers Face Isolation and Stress, Army Chaplain Goes to New Lengths to Reach Them Army Ranger Chaplain Maj. Jon Knoedler walks across a narrow beam 35 feet above Victory Pond at Fort Benning, Georgia, to offer perspective to soldiers wrestling with the uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic. During one […]
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READ MORERetired U.S. Army colonel credits hometown with inspiring life of service When United States Army veteran Ranger Bob Portante planned on returning to his hometown of Windber, he knew he wanted to be involved in the community that meant so much to him growing up. With the help of his […]
