PRESENTATION-Kolakowski & Admiral Rucker

On Wisconsin – a New Meaning!

...future nuclear- powered ballistic missile submarine, USS Wisconsin, a group of Navy Veterans and Wisconsinites formed a tax exempt, not-for-profit organization incorporated in the State of Wisconsin in 2021. Their...

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Ghost Mountain Commander from Neillsville

...was up against and chose to simplify the command structure, resupply, and refit the worn-out 32nd Division, and bring in substantially more soldiers. Eichelberger left the battalion commanders in place,...

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TALKING SPIRITS CEMETERY TOURS

...annual Talking Spirits XXIV: Forest Hill Cemetery Tours to see, hear, and experience how this document changed the lives of future Madisonians and Wisconsinites. These tours will take place during...

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TALKING SPIRITS CEMETERY TOURS

...annual Talking Spirits XXIV: Forest Hill Cemetery Tours to see, hear, and experience how this document changed the lives of future Madisonians and Wisconsinites. These tours will take place during...

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Brig. Gen. Mark E. Anderson, Wisconsin's deputy adjutant general for Army, Chief Warrant Officer 5 William D. Krueck, the state's command chief warrant officer, and Command Sgt. Maj. Rafael Conde, the Wisconsin Army National Guard’s senior enlisted advisor, welcome back Soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry, 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team at Volk Field Air National Guard Base as they return following a deployment to support hurricane relief operations, Sept. 16, 2017. On Sept. 8, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed an executive order, which authorized the adjutant general to call elements of the Wisconsin National Guard to state active duty, as necessary. The 32nd IBCT and select other Wisconsin National Guard units were called to state active duty to assist Florida. 112th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment photo by Spc. Jared Saathoff/Released.The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement. 3781928. Public domain.

Wisconsin Rapids Mark E. Anderson Reflects on Iraq

...didn't, we moved them-- just push them off. And so it-- and I tell that only because, fast-forwarding a little bit to when I-- I come home on leave, and...

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Beckel in IV training in AIT. WVM.OH2238

I AM NOT INVISIBLE 3.0: WOMEN VETERANS TELL THEIR STORIES

...up to him because he was just a little guy wearing ACUs, shook his hand and gave him a coin-- SPRAGUE: --Oh my god. BECKEL: Four years old, gave him...

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1st Wisconsin Light Artillery Battery

Recruitment and Training First Wisconsin Light Artillery Battery (1st Wisconsin Light Artillery Battery) was organized at La Crosse, Wisconsin, and it mustered into service on October 10, 1861. The battery...

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Laura Naylor Colbert and friends on deployment in Iraq

Operation Iraqi Freedom: Wisconsin Women Were There Proving Their Skill

Among the First to Arrive On March 20, 2003, Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) officially began. More than 3,900 active Wisconsin troops deployed to Iraq. Among the first Wisconsin units to...

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Photo of Blair Dunday

Dunday Recalls Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT)

...of the base through pictures they took. Um, and I did have one friend who is the medic for their unit. He--him and I got pretty close because of a...

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4th Wisconsin Light Artillery Battery

Recruitment and Training The Fourth Wisconsin Light Artillery Battery (4th Wisconsin Light Artillery Battery) organized at Beloit, Wisconsin, then transferred to Camp Utley, Racine. They mustered into the service of...

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