It’s a long journey to the deserts of Iraq for a man who got out of the Army after the Vietnam War as a conscientious objector.
(Originally published in The Augusta Chronicle, Dec. 18, 2006. Original URL: https://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/2006/12/18/met_109018.shtml.)
Imagine driving around a military base in south Mississippi, where you’ve never been before. The power is out, and street lighting is nonexistent. Trees are all over the road. Within 72 to 96 hours, you’re working with all your might – on little sleep – to get communications services working that emergency workers must have when cell phone towers have been blown over. This is what Fort Gordon’s 67th Signal Battalion faced last year [2005] as soldiers from the unit were called to provide basic links to the outside world for soldiers and civilians trying to coordinate relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
(Originally published in The Augusta Chronicle, Sept. 5, 2006. Original URL: https://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/2006/09/05/met_95334.shtml)
For Beth Newman and her family, this Masters Week is the last time for a decades-long tradition.
Since she was 5, the Augusta native has been angling cars onto her parents’ Heath Drive yard near Augusta National Golf Club, allowing tournament patrons to park for a charge.
(Originally published April 5, 2006, in The Augusta Chronicle)
As Fort Gordon celebrates its 65th anniversary this year, its boosters have plenty to celebrate about its future. After surviving the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure round, the post is set to see new construction, bringing more jobs to the area and new military and civilian personnel.
(Originally published at The Augusta Chronicle, Jan. 15, 2006, https://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/2006/01/15/met_43593.shtml.)
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 […]