Our deepest sympathies go out to the Blomquist and Loglisci families who lost both Bryan Blomquest and his father-in-law Frank Loglisci recently. It was our honor to do Warrior Stories on both of these men who served their country and communities.
Read MoreLt. Gen. William “Bill” Welser III spent over 34 years in the U.S. Air Force, retiring in 2005. Lt. Get. Welser served as Director of Operations and Logistics for U.S. Transportation Command, where he led operations supporting the response to 9/11.
Read MoreSgt. Jahira Sepulveda served in the U.S. Army from 2005-2014. Sgt. Sepulveda trained as a Water Purification Specialist but was retrained to be a Military Prison Guard while on deployment in Iraq. During her 9 years in the military she also worked with the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) and in recruitment.
Read MoreWhen he was 12 years old, Art Culver started to make models of airplanes and fell in love with flying. He applied to both the Air Force and Navy after he got out of school and was accepted by both. He picked the Navy because he wanted to serve on a carrier and he says he liked the uniform. He did over a hundred combat missions in Vietnam before leaving the Navy and then taking a job with American Airlines as a pilot.
Read MoreDave Rogers Commander of the Suffolk County Council of VFW discusses how he and the SCCVFW are connecting and helping Veterans during the Coronavirus crisis.
Read MoreCarroll Oates joined the Army in 1969 and retired as a Lt. Colonel in 2007. He was deployed to both England and Germany as part of the US Army Medical Command Depot Support Team. As a Reserve Major he was deployed to Honduras as Company Commander of the Medical Team for MedRets. Oates was called back to active duty in 1991 and deployed to Saudi Arabia in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm where he served as Executive Officer of two Field Medical Units. He was awarded a Bronze Star, a Meritorious Service Medal and 4 Army Commendation Medals. He is on the Board of the Indian River County Veterans's Council and 2nd Vice President of the Indian River County Military Officers Association.
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Read MoreSgt. Nicholas Mangano grew up on Long Island, NY and joined the U.S. Army in 2013. Nick served with the 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Benning, Georgia and was stationed in Jalalabad, Afghanistan as well as South Korea and Germany. Nick retired from the Army in 2017 and currently is a member of Airborne Tri Team, a non-for-profit organization providing war veterans with opportunities, physical challenges and goal oriented physical achievements to maximize their potential and increase their self-esteem all by being part of a team. airbornetriteam.org
Read MoreWilliam "Bill" Pickens III (1936-2021)
In 1958, he joined the Air Force as a Second Lieutenant. Pickens’s position as Personnel Officer in the Air Force sent him across the world to Japan.
Brian MastHe served in Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. On September 19, 2010, while clearing a path for United States Army Rangers in Kandahar, Mast took a wrong step into an IED along the road. The explosion resulted in the amputation of both his legs and his left hand index finger.
Read MoreD-Day | 78th Anniversary, this story was created for the 75th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion.
Read MorePearl Harbor survivor Armando "Chick" Galella served with the 53rd Signal Corps at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attached on December 7th, 1941. Chick served for 5 years in the Pacific during WWII.
Read MorePatrick Williamson joined the Indiana National Guard Sept. 2002 in his junior year at High School. Patrick was deployed to Iraq in 2005 with the 113th Combat Engineer Battalion of the Indiana National Guard. He left the Guard in 2008. He is currently involved with the Next Generation Group of Veterans in Indian River County and the Veterans Council of Indian River.
Read MoreDouglas Weinert served in the U.S. Army Infantry from 2006-2014 with the 10th Mountain Division 2nd Battalion 22nd Infantry Regiment and was stationed in both Iraq and Afghanistan as well as serving with the Old Guard at Arlington National Cemetery.
Read MoreEd Britt enlisted in the U.S. Army in Jan 1949 and retired as a Command Sergeant Major after 32 years of service.
Read MoreNicole Cannon joined the U.S. Army Reserves when she was only 17 and still in High School. Nicole served as a Financial Management Tech and was deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Read MoreIn honor of PTSD Awareness Month our spotlight story this month is Richard Sawyer. Richard served in the U.S. Army as a dog handler and was deployed to Vietnam with his dog in 1970 walking point and using the dog to sniff out the North Vietnamese.
Read MoreTelly Antona joined the U.S. Army while she was still in High School on the Army's delayed entry program and served 6 years and an additional year in the reserves. Telly served in the motor pool at Camp Kyle Korea and with central issues, supplying all the personnel at Fort Campbell KY for the 101st Airborne. Telly currently is involved with Habitat for Humanity and also a group of younger Veterans Net Gen in Vero Beach FL.
Read MoreUSA Warrior Stories has lost a friend and honored veteran working with us in Vero Beach Florida, Martin “ MARTY ” Zickert - Col. U.S.A.F. (Ret.). Marty help and collaborated with USAWS over the past 5 years assisting us to produce and promote our Florida veterans stories, events and programs. Our thoughts and best wishes go out to his family, friends and the many veteran’s he served, worked with and helped.
Read MorePeter M. F. Sichel's childhood was interrupted by the Nazis while growing up a Jew in Germany. He moved with his family to France in 1939, was imprisoned as an enemy alien and eventually escaped, reaching the United Stated in 1941.
Peter joined the Army shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor and served with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) sending spies into Germany. Peter eventually became a senior official with the Century Intelligence Agency (CIA) serving in Berlin, Hong Kong and Washington before joining his family wine business in 1960.
Pat DeRosa of Montauk died of natural causes in his sleep on March 30th. He was 101. In 1943, at the height of WWII, Pat was drafted into the Army Air Forces and sent to Greensboro, NC for basic training. Soon after, Pat was offered to audition for the “Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band” and was accepted. He spent three years traveling around the US with the band performing and entertaining the troops.
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