Fort Indiantown Gap News

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.

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

Staff Sgt. Clarence Washington will keep his wife and daughters close to him this holiday season, enjoying precious family time to fill his thoughts when he is away.

Reaction locally, like that across the nation, was varied to President Barack Obama's new plan for Afghanistan, which he announced during a speech Tuesday night from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. Obama's plan calls for deploying 30,000 troops to Afghanistan in the next six months, boosting total U.S. forces there to about 100,000.

HARRISBURG -- One Army National Guardsman, just back from a nine-month tour in Iraq, realized he could no longer keep his 'boy' -- his beloved dog, Rocky.

A week after an Army psychiatrist allegedly killed thirteen people at Fort Hood, Texas, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed a bill that would increase security at National Guard facilities.

Chuck Biedka can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4711. Paul M. Mikus had earned eight medals for his Army service on Europe's battlefields during World War II, but he never received all of them.

One Army National Guardsman, just back from a nine-month tour in Iraq, realized he could no longer keep his "boy" _ his beloved dog, Rocky.

Six-year-old Isabella Perez got wide-eyed while she looked up to watch members of the William Penn JROTC Color Guard march by her and several other first-graders. Isabella and hundreds of students, faculty and community members were at a Veterans Day program at Christian School of York in Manchester Township on Tuesday.

An Army National Guard honor guard from Fort Indiantown Gap fires a 21-gun salute during ceremonies this morning at the state Capitol Complex honoring Army Specialist Ross A. McGinnis, the state's latest Medal of Honor winner.

In a Veterans Day address at Fort Indiantown Gap today, former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that killed 13 and wounded dozens of others was "the worst terrorist act carried out on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001." An FBI spokesman and a New York Times report said the gunman, Army Maj.

Major William McKnight wipes tears from his eyes during a vigil at Fort Hood, Texas, early Friday.

Army Sgt. Nicholas Raia said it was a sense of duty that made him give up the good life as a full-time Penn State student and weekend National Guard musician to volunteer to come here.

When Harry Fox became the first sergeant of the Air National Guard's 211th Electrical Engineering Squadron in 1976, unit members were sleeping in their cars during drill weekends.

Saturday marked the 250th day since passage of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act - the $787 billion economic-stimulus package designed to put the brakes on the nation's worst economic slide since the Great Depression.

Susquehanna Twp. employees, Randy Adams, of Lower Paxton Twp., left, and Doug Husted Sr., of Susquehanna Twp., look at the Apache.

Holding a folded American flag, Northern Lebanon school board member Sgt. Brian Keaton smiles at his wife, Kristin, during a ceremony at the board meeting Tuesday night.

Following are the stories on the men lost in Vietnam whose remains were not recovered: 1st Lt.

For as long as Dick Houser can remember, there has been no veterans memorial in Jonestown.

PV2 Casey Wolsonovich of Ford City, completed Army basic training at Fort Benning, Ga.