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Legacy of service: Army Reserve officer carries family’s warfighting torch
June 12, 2020 — For the Anderson family, military service is in their blood, and last month that bloodline continued on with its latest addition, roughly a month before the Army’s 245th birthday. “We’ve been in the military since the American Revolution,” said 2nd Lt. Anna-Elise Anderson, an Army Reserve intelligence officer at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, regarding her family’s history. “And throughout those generations, we’ve also been in nearly every conflict our military has been in.”... MORE

Army historians document actionable history during COVID-19 operations
June 11, 2020 — In 245 years, the U.S. Army has fought wars and conducted stability and support operations overseas and on home soil, often while fighting deadly diseases at the same time. Continental soldiers faced smallpox outbreaks during the Revolutionary War; their descendants had to contend with a massive influenza pandemic during World War I. Now, as U.S. forces continue to carry out their various missions worldwide, U.S. Army historians are documenting stories from the front line of the COVID-19 battle across the United States, in an effort to preserve the lessons of current events for future generations... MORE

Army Reserve Soldier honors and continues grandfather's legacy
May 26, 2020 — Sgt. 1st Class Pamela Ayaay, the 335th Signal Command (T) (P) chief paralegal noncommissioned officer in charge, knew that her grandfather served in the Philippine Army. However, she recently discovered that they share more in common with their military service. Retired Lt. Col. Antonio Ayaay served in the Philippine Army during World War II in the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps, just like his granddaughter... MORE

History detachments called into action during Army Reserve COVID-19 response
May 11, 2020 — The Army Reserve is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in unprecedented ways. In order to capture the uniqueness of this response, military history detachments from the 88th Readiness Division have been dispatched to compile historic data as it is happening... MORE

Days of Remembrance
April 22, 2020 — This year marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of concentration camps and the end of Nazi tyranny in Europe. Holocaust Remembrance Day observance was designated Tuesday, April 21, 2020. Observances and remembrance activities will occur nationwide between Sunday, April 19, and Sunday, April 26... MORE

Army Reserve Soldiers honor African-American history pioneer
February 28, 2020 — Soldiers of the U.S. Army Reserve’s 99th Readiness Division celebrated African-American History Month by honoring a trailblazer Feb. 22 at the Maj. John P. Pryor U.S. Army Reserve Center here... MORE

Echoing history, Army Reserve Soldiers play baseball in gas masks
February 27, 2020 — U.S. Army Soldiers with 655th Regional Support Group, 316th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), 377th Theater Sustainment Command, donned their gas masks and participated in an improvised game of baseball Feb. 12, 2020, at Joint Training Center-Jordan, paying tribute to former service members who used the sport to prepare for chemical warfare during WWI... MORE

Army Reserve general commemorates turning point in American Revolution
December 11, 2019 — The Friends of Washington Crossing Historic Park hosted the 67th annual re-enactment of Gen. George Washington crossing the Delaware River on Dec.8 at Washington Crossing Historic Park here... MORE

Command Sgt. Maj. honors father in Guam as 75th Anniversary “Liberation of Guam, 1944” approaches
July 12, 2019 — For Command Sgt. Maj. Patrick McDonald of the 322nd Civil Affairs Brigade based out of Fort Shafter Flats, Honolulu, Hawaii, a routine training mission in Guam is more than just training, it is a chance to personally reconnect with the island’s WWII history in ways few are given the opportunity. Joining the Navy in the late 1940s, McDonald’s father, Senior Navy Corpsman Roy McDonald, was the senior medic on the beach tending to Marines who were with him through Bougainville and Guadalcanal campaigns... MORE

77th Quartermaster Group Soldiers push through the Bataan
March 18, 2019 — U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from the 77th Quartermaster Group, based in El Paso, Texas, took part in the 2019 Bataan Memorial Death March... MORE

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