Beaufort Patriot

...The Colorado Rangers were in fact fashioned after the success of the Texas Rangers. They were a group of hard living, hard drinking, and hard fighting men who had been called on to defend the Colorado Territory against...

With the weight of too many futures on their shoulders ... as loved ones waved farewell to their departing planes ... or just stood weeping, watching them sail from view...

CAMP TAJI, Iraq - Chief Warrant Officer 3 Anthony Potter, from Waldorf, Md., a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter instructor pilot in Company C, 3rd Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, U.S. Division-Center, has spent 52 months and four Iraq deployments accumulating more than 2,000 hours of combat flight time.

A Soldier from E Btry., 1st Battalion, 44th ADA Regt., completes one last diaper change at Fort Hood, Feb. 1, 2010 before deploying to Baghdad. Several Soldiers from E Btry., 1-44 ADA, are scheduled to deploy for one year.

Capt. Candice Sperry, a member of the 41st Electronic Combat Squadron, at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., was awarded the 2009 Air Force Robbie Risner Award, an honor recognizing the service's top weapons officer...

His absence pulls her forward ... as she parts the summer grass ... the cross on his headstone glowing ... from sunbeams as they pass...

U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Jay Wamsley holds a Haitian toddler during a humanitarian visit to one of many small villages outside Port-Au-Prince, Haiti...

...As a member of the Crime Scene Investigation unit (CSI) of a Texas police department, I truly cannot remember how many people I have witnessed dead at a crime scene or dying in an emergency room...

Soldier, infantryman, Airborne Ranger, combat diver, mountain climber, skier, tri-athlete, surfer, husband and father are just a few words to describe Army Capt. Scott M. Smiley...