Fort McCoy News

Matthew J. Alken graduated from Officer Candidate School Phase III at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga., and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army National Guard.

Northeastern Wisconsin boasts several companies that have done handsomely thanks to Uncle Sam.

Man completes challenge MADISON -- Marshfield native and University of Wisconsin-Madison student Ashley McCarthy recently participated in the third annual Army ROTC Ranger Challenge at Fort McCoy.

Army Reservist Robert Strandell of Morris, a military careerist, is once again saying goodbye to friends and family, like his grandniece Kacie Parks.

It was refreshing to hear Lt. Col. Roger Cook focus some attention on noncombat servicemen and women during his Veterans Day speech in Wausau.

A Ladysmith Army soldier wounded by a mortar round in Afghanistan on Sunday was reportedly in 'very serious but stable condition' on Tuesday.

Even though he has seen the horrors of war during his 35 years of military service, Lt.

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.