Fort McCoy News

Mary Welsh was a nurse with the U.S. Army during World War II and saw duty in England, France and Germany.

A judge says the state of Wisconsin does not have to pay $225,000 to a blind vendor in a dispute over a failed Army dining contract.

A law enforcement official says a shooting suspect at Fort Hood has been identified as Army Maj.

Vietnam veteran Frank Waning didna t want his children to experience a war like he fought, but his familya s tradition of military service was too strong to break Frank Waninga s father was a World War II veteran.

An official cause of death involving an 87-year-old woman found face down in a retention pond not far from a veterans retirement home where she lived probably won't be known pending the results of a toxicology report, according to sheriff's officials.

Army Spc. Jason M. Schulz hugs his wife, Polina, who is seven months pregnant with their first child, as they watch construction of their new home Wednesday in the Town of Eagle.

Some youth enrolled in an alternative education program for high school dropouts at Fort McCoy are pitching in to help build a home for a soldier wounded in Iraq who was once in the program too.

Letcher has been Hatton's mayor since 006, and a member of the Army _a> Reserve since 1986.

Herald/DAVID MORRIS Maj. Gen. Charles A. Anderson, center, holds First Army Division Westa s guidon during Thursdaya s change of command ceremony where he relieved Maj.

Member of the Florida National GuardOs 3153rd Finance detachment stand at attention during a ceremony in St.

Cmdr. Mitchell Conover, center, is awarded the Bronze Star Medal for distinguished service from May 2008 to March 2009 as the electronic warfare officer in support of the 18th Combat Engineer Brigade in Iraq.

Nearly 400 Wisconsin Soldiers will be heading to Iraq next year. The Wisconsin Army and Air National Guard announced Friday the mobilization for the 724th Engineer Battalion.

Approximately 160 Virginia National Guard soldiers from the Powhatan-based 180th Engineer Company are scheduled to return home Tuesday after serving in Iraq since December 2008.

Rudy gets hurt roughhousing with Theo; and the hospital staff learns of layoffs.

Imagine my surprise, and delight, when I received this email at 9:36 this morning from Henry Bass, a local Army reservist and business owner who we featured in a four-page spread in today's NRV Current: Chris, The blog articles and photos came out GREAT in today's paper- and guess what? Your timing was unbelieveable-- I have just arrived HOME! My ...

"We would rather have you die a thousand times with us than die once over there," Brian Hoffman said.

Construction continues on the $8 million U.S. Army Reserve Center on Towerline Road, across from Buena Vista High School in Buena Vista Township.

More than 100 men and women from southwest Missouri are about to spend a year away from home serving our country.

An Idaho company whose chief contact with the U.S. Army was a felon on probation snagged a multiyear, six-figure contract for work at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin last summer - and then failed to pay the Oconomowoc company it hired to do the job.

The 211th Engineer Company of the South Dakota Army National Guard will hold an activation ceremony Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Dakota State Field House in Madison.