...groom is the son of Stephanie and Brad Kiefer of Juneau. He graduated from Juneau-Douglas High School and is a Private First Class in the United States Marine Corps, stationed in Pendleton, Calif.The couple met in seventh grade at Floyd Dryden...
...Washington State in 2002.Jim served in the United States Army 82nd Airborne Division during the Korean War as a Private First Class and Paratrooper and eight years in the Army Reserves. Jim was employed by the U.S. Forest Service for several...
Private First Class Andrew A. Hall of the U.S. Army has successfully completed his Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) training at Eglin AFB in...
...an unarmed black man, a killing that sparked the city's worst racial unrest in three decades. In 2005, Army Private First Class Lynndie England was convicted by a military jury in Fort Hood, Texas, on six of seven counts stemming from the...
...One-Station Unit Training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga. During the first 14 weeks of basic infantry training, the private first class received training in drill and ceremony, weapons employment, map reading, tactics, military customs and courtesies...
...Warrensburg, where she was a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority. On Jan. 7, 1950, she married Marine Corps Private First Class Edmund Platnico, and the couple was stationed first in San Francisco, then at El Toro Marine Base, then Camp...
...against what he called one of the toughest times in his career: adjusting to being a commander. "I had been a private first class forever, a corporal for a year, and then a sergeant forever," he said. "It was a big change, and for a few...
...military) academies," said Hastie, pulling rousing laughter from the crowd. Hastie arrived in Normandy as a private, first class, several weeks after D-Day. "The German air force was still active, bombed us," said Hastie, who has grenade...
...is the son of Donna and Joe Samaniego and James Howard. He also attended Juneau-Douglas High School, and is a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. The couple plan to make their home in Vicenza, Italy, where Samaniego-Howard is currently...
Station: Private First Class with the 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 297th Infantry. His story: "As a child my family moved around a lot...
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