Category: Augusta Chronicle works

Selected archived articles by Jeremy S. Craig published by The Augusta Chronicle in Augusta, Georgia.

Categories
Augusta Chronicle works Selected Works

Selected Works: Veterans get special care at new Augusta, Ga., rehabilitation unit

Originally published in The Augusta Chronicle, June 23, 2004. Jun. 23–For Petty Officer 1st Class Lindon Haworth, rehabilitation has been a long journey — from a mortar attack in Iraq back home to an Augusta Veterans Affairs hospital. With a Bible in his left hand, the naval reservist sits in his room at the VA’s […]

Categories
Augusta Chronicle works Selected Works

Earning Her Stars

Maj. Gen. Hicks' 13-year-old daughter, Jennifer, and Gen. Byrnes pin the officer's shoulders with a second star, indicating her new rank as major general. Soldiers raised a two-star flag at the post. ANNETTE M. DROWLETTE/STAFF
Maj. Gen. Hicks' 13-year-old daughter, Jennifer, and Gen. Byrnes pin the officer's shoulders with a second star, indicating her new rank as major general. Soldiers raised a two-star flag at the post. ANNETTE M. DROWLETTE/STAFF

Maj. Gen. Janet Hicks, the first woman to command Fort Gordon and a soldier who first joined the Army in 1975, is promoted to a two-star general rank as she leads a military post that is the head of the Army Signal Corps. (The Augusta Chronicle, June 3, 2004)