Fort Indiantown Gap News

Spc. Tim Markle, 23, looked forward to a tasty slice of hometown pizza while he awaited word Monday on when he'd leave on the next leg of his trip home to York County.

The toy drive arranged by Carey Giadosh, owner of Giadosh Motorsports of Forty Fort, tripled donations this year, receiving more than 3,000 toys as compared to last year's 1,000 toys.

Bryan and Jen Berlew embrace after nearly 100 members of the 628th Aviation Support Battalion returned to Fort Indiantown Gap from a year deployment in Iraq on Tuesday, December 15, 2009.

Nikos Phelps, owner of Utopian Landscapes gets the lights ready, after they surprised the Donohue family with free Christmas lights on their house for the holidays.

Soldiers from the Pennsylvania National Guard's 28th Combat Aviation Brigade have begun returning from their deployment to Iraq.

As a child, John Gingrich Sr. never had an extravagant Christmas. Often, his highlight would be going with his family to the Avon fire hall to watch a movie, after which the children would receive a box of candy.

More than 200 Pennsylvania Army National Guard soldiers from the Pittsburgh area with the 110th infantry regiment will be heading to Afghanistan at the beginning of the year.

When President Barrack Obama announced last week that he is ordering an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, he brought increased attention to the 8-year-old war.

Lebanon County will receive a $292,000 state grant to upgrade more than 30 traffic signals, the county commissioners learned Thursday.

The federal government is considering erecting a perimeter fence that would close off the main area of Fort Indiantown Gap to the general public.

It was in October 2001 when Air National Guard Master Sergeant Daniel Hartzell was told he was being deployed overseas - 48 hours before he was supposed to leave.

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A fence may be built around Fort Indiantown Gap in Lebanon County, which means people may no longer drive through the Pennsylvania National Guard facility.

The death of a hiker from Mechanicsburg has prompted the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency to require its employees to contact the Pennsylvania National Guard in similar searches, PEMA Director Robert French said Wednesday.

Annville, Pa. - In recent weeks, a commercial-sized stainless steel refrigerator, an oven, a meat slicer, hundreds of chairs and other kitchen supplies were stolen from from Fort Indiantown Gap.

Pennsylvania Army National Guard representatives told state police at Jonestown that someone entered the 28th Combat Aviation Brigade Armory building between 8 p.m. Nov.

Police in Lebanon County look for the suspects who stole thousands of dollars worth of items from a Fort Indiantown Gap Military Post in Union Township.

Though there were no signs of forced entry, $63,000 worth of kitchen supplies were stolen sometime between Nov.

Snyder County officials insist they did everything they could think of to get help during a search-and-rescue effort in a state forest, but each time they asked for help from PEMA, the state agency turned them down.

The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency will build a new headquarters building at Fort Indiantown Gap and relocate to the northern Lebanon County installation when it's completed.