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Lt. Col. Lucas distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism while serving as the commanding officer of the 2d Battalion. Although the fire base was constantly subjected to heavy attacks by a numerically superior enemy force throughout this period, Lt. Col. Lucas, forsaking his own safety, performed numerous acts of extraordinary valor in ...
He was taken by Dunlap to the battalion's commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel C. Pollock, [6] who assigned him to Dunlap's rifle company as a rifleman; his punishment for going UA was an administrative reduction in rank to private. On February 14, Lucas had his 17th birthday while at sea, five days before the invasion of Iwo Jima began.
Ruth Alice Lucas was born in Stamford, Connecticut, on November 28, 1920. Shortly after graduation, Col. Lucas enlisted in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in 1942 and was one of the first black women to attend what is now the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, VA. She transferred from the Army to the newly created Air Force in 1947.
An Army colonel who was formerly a top leader at Joint Base Lewis-McChord was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for beating his wife while armed with a gun and causing a standoff with ...
Season 1 – 6. Claudia Joy Holden (née Meade) (portrayed by Kim Delaney) was the wife of Lieutenant-General Michael Holden.She and Denise were best friends and have known each other since their children were in elementary school; their husbands served together for many years and were both stationed at Fort Carson when the families first met.
Robert Rheault was born October 31, 1925, to Charles Auguste and Rosamond (née Bradley) Rheault in Westwood, a suburb of Boston.His father had served with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was stationed in Labrador where he met Rosamond Bradley, from a prominent Boston family, who had been working at the Grenfell Medical Mission prior to immigrating to the United States in 1924.
Nov. 30—WATERTOWN — U.S. Navy Lt. Santino Alteri faced negativity and discouragement when he set about launching a nonprofit to provide free academic and mental health support to military ...
The wife of a US Navy officer recently transferred to US custody after being jailed in Japan called on President Joe Biden and the Department of Justice to support his release.