| Posted on: Wednesday, October 6, 2004 |
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Pacific Island units begin to mark off long road till home
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For the second time in a week, Joan Dubrall said goodbye yesterday to her husband, Jesse, an Army reservist with the 100th Battalion, 442nd Infantry, as he prepared to ship off to war in Iraq. |
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| Posted on: Tuesday, October 5, 2004 |
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Hawai'i soldier 'died for a cause'
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Pfc. Joshua Kuile Paul Titcomb, a 20-year-old Wai'anae-born soldier killed in Iraq last week, was a man who sought adventure, travel and a chance to make a difference. |
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| Posted on: Monday, October 4, 2004 |
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Families fight fear
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Lita Fejes was one of hundreds of family members who gathered at Schofield Barracks in the pre-dawn darkness to send off more than 600 members of the 29th Brigade, which is preparing for deployment to Iraq early next year. |
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| Posted on: Sunday, October 3, 2004 |
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Cheers, tears as crowd bids farewell
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Nearly 15,000 teary-eyed fans at Aloha Stadium rose to their feet and cheered for Hawai'i's citizen soldiers — men and women who will leave the state this week to complete their training for deployment to Iraq. |
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| Posted on: Sunday, July 11, 2004 |
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Cell phones let soldiers keep home ties strong
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Sherri Miral tries not to call her husband on his cell phone when he's at work. He's pretty busy in a war zone in Iraq, after all. But in a sign of changing technological times, the 'Ewa Beach woman can do just that. |
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| Posted on: Sunday, July 11, 2004 |
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Call-ups troublesome for self-employed reservists
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Second Lt. Charles Neumann knows he'll lose his $50,000-a-year mental-health practice if he's deployed to Iraq, but he also worries about the future of the ice cream franchise he and his wife run in Kapolei. |
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| Posted on: Friday, July 9, 2004 |
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Injured Schofield pilot 'lucky to be alive' and home
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Three weeks ago, his helicopter went down in an irrigation ditch in Iraq, and Chief Warrant Officer 3 Claude Boushey Sr. found himself pinned inside with water filling the cockpit. |
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| Posted on: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 |
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Murder charge is unjust, soldier says |
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A Schofield Barracks soldier facing a court martial on a charge of murdering a handcuffed and unarmed Iraqi cowherder said he shot the man to defend another soldier. |
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| Posted on: Monday, June 21, 2004 |
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'Surgery went well' for Schofield helicopter pilot |
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The co-pilot of a Schofield Barracks helicopter that crashed in Iraq, a 1983 Campbell High School graduate who lives in Makakilo, had surgery in Germany for a broken back and leg, family members said. |
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| Posted on: Friday, June 18, 2004 |
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Schofield soldier faces court-martial for Iraqi death |
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An Army general has determined that Pfc. Edward L. Richmond Jr., a Schofield Barracks soldier charged with murder in the shooting death of an Iraqi civilian, will be court-martialed for the offense. |
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| Posted on: Friday, June 18, 2004 |
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Man with Kaua'i ties dies in Iraq |
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A California contractor found dead in his Baghdad hotel room in Iraq Sunday was part Hawaiian and has family on Kaua'i, a family friend said. |
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| Posted on: Thursday, June 17, 2004 |
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Crew helps shoeless children in Afghanistan |
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In addition to soldiers and supplies, Marines and mail, 1st Sgt. James Thomson, who's with a Schofield Barracks helicopter unit in Afghanistan, wants to drop off something else. Shoes. Yours. |
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| Posted on: Monday, June 14, 2004 |
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Army has a leader on home front |
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In these difficult days of being a single mother, going to school full time, working as a tutor and struggling with a new diagnosis of recurrent cancer, Brandy Stewart, 25, has also become a powerful role model for other young military wives. |
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| Posted on: Thursday, June 3, 2004 |
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General to review murder charge |
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All evidence in the case of Pfc. Edward L. Richmond Jr., a Schofield Barracks soldier charged with murder in the shooting death of an Iraqi cowherd, will be forwarded to an Army general this week. |
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| Posted on: Monday, May 31, 2004 |
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After returning from Iraq, every day is for remembering |
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Photographer Richard Ambo and I recently returned home after spending three months with Schofield Barracks soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
An editor asked: Will Memorial Day be different for you?
The answer is, no.
Truth is, pretty much every day has been Memorial Day since I returned. |
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| Posted on: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 |
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About 20 in Wheeler unit receive orders for Kuwait |
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More than 20 civilian workers and active-duty soldiers from the Army's 599th Transportation Group at Wheeler Army Airfield are the latest from Hawai'i to get orders to the Middle East. |
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| Posted on: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 |
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Guard troops return after 9 months in Afghanistan |
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They say soldiers aren't supposed to cry. Tell that to Spc. 4 Maria Eugenio and Sgt. John Oliveros Jr., who were among the 62 Hawai'i Army National Guard members who returned last night from a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan. |
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| Posted on: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 |
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Marines' wry joke: Iraq is like Hawai'i |
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Marine Lance Corporal Marden Andres describes Iraq in a way that has become popular among troops from the 50th State. "Just like Hawai'i, but without the water," said Andres, an 'Ewa Beach native. He and the other members of Hawai'i's 3rd Radio Battalion convoyed from Kuwait to Camp Fallujah in March to support the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. |
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| Posted on: Thursday, May 13, 2004 |
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Schofield bids aloha to sergeant killed in Iraq |
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U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Oscar "Big Daddy" Medina's funeral at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific yesterday drew more than 100 relatives, friends and members of the 25th Infantry Divison (Light) and U.S. Army, Hawai'i. He was the first casualty buried at the cemetery since the Schofield Barracks troops deployed this year to Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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| Posted on: Saturday, May 8, 2004 |
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Hawai'i surgeon treated U.S., Iraqi casualties |
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Dr. Craig Ono makes a living caring for children as an orthopedic surgeon at Shriners Hospital for Children. But for the first three months this year, the Army reservist shifted his expertise to the casualties of war as part of his deployment to Iraq. |
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| Posted on: Sunday, April 25, 2004 |
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Reservist families cope with shock of deployment |
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Laurie Naumu, wife of an O'ahu carpenter who served one weekend a month in the Army Reserve, never considered herself a military wife. But when her husband and more than 400 other Hawai'i Reservists with the 411th Engineer Battalion were ordered to active duty in January and sent to Iraq a few weeks ago, her life changed dramatically. |
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| Posted on: Monday, March 15, 2004 |
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Pregnant Schofield wives lend support to each other |
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As the wife of an Army commander, Lynn Leith is well-versed in leadership and responsibility. She has been surrounded by it every day for nearly three years. And now, while her husband tromps through Iraq with the soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, she is leading her own mission. She calls it "Operation Bun in the Oven." |
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Schofield wife bears heavy burden |
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Christina Zwilling was talking on the telephone when the Army officer from Schofield Barracks made his first attempt to contact her about her husband. She missed the call. |
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| Posted on: Thursday, March 11, 2004 |
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Army wives ease woman's burden |
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Lynn Cooper-Sherman has had some anxious moments lately, not even counting when her husband, Army Capt. Patrick Sherman, left for Iraq on Jan. 20. The couple were expecting their first baby, and all had not gone smoothly with her pregnancy. The mother-to-be said she is especially grateful to a number of military wives who have eased her through the tough time. |
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| Posted on: Monday, March 8, 2004 |
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Schofield families report for duty |
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Vicky Hatch, an Army wife for 32 years, will send her husband and three sons to Afghanistan this spring. And Paula Stampley, another Hawai'i military wife, is sending her husband and son. There are no Army regulations that prohibit family members from going to war together. |
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| Posted on: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 |
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Sacrifices of the heart |
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The wives of Schofield Barracks know the price of freedom is measured in missed anniversaries and once-in-a-lifetime moments gone forever. They brace for each one like soldiers huddled against incoming mortar rounds. |
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| Posted on: Monday, February 16, 2004 |
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Husband soldiers on with wife gone in Iraq |
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Jason and Angela Reber, both 24 years old, were married last April. She was stationed in Hawai'i, and he joined her in the Islands the following month. By the time he found a job and the newlyweds got their household set up, their first holidays together were coming up, and Angela was preparing to deploy to Iraq. |
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| Posted on: Thursday, February 5, 2004 |
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E-mail links troops to family, friends |
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As a veteran of five deployments, Vicki Olson, wife of Maj. Gen. Eric T. Olson, commander of the 25th Infantry Division (Light) and U.S. Army, Hawai‘i, knows firsthand the importance of families staying connected. |
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| Posted on: Saturday, January 17, 2004 |
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Adopt-A-Platoon offers chance to keep in touch |
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Hawai'i residents have been searching for ways to reach out to military men and women deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan, and local groups are responding with ways to help. |
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| Posted on: Friday, January 2, 2004 |
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Wedding bells to echo the call of duty |
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The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks brought Maile Alau and Michael Bennett closer together. An upcoming deployment to Afghanistan by Bennett, a Blackhawk helicopter crew chief, gave their relationship another push, and the couple were planning to get married Jan. 24 — earlier than they otherwise would have, and with the difficult, year-long assignment in mind. |
