In later years, Jim told the story that Laura’s unit in Korea had a yearly Iron Man Contest, and after 5-ft. 4-in. Laura beat dozens of men to win the contest, the event was renamed the Iron Person Contest. They were assigned to Fort Rucker, where Laura attended the Career Captain...
you can finish out your twenty years of service with the National Guard. The military retirement system is a points system. The amount of pay you receive, depends on your time in service and the number of points
A knight was excepted from performing his duty if he had a yearly income under twenty pounds. In case of a greater income, if the knight was in debt, and the income minus the amount he had to pay to his creditors was less then 20 pounds, he was excepted as well. ...
In the public depictions of the Jägers, there is a tendency to pay far more attention to heroes that lived or died than to those mutilated and crippled. Even in the yearly magazine Jääkäri-invaliidi [The Jäger Invalid], sold around Christmas time to collect means for charity am...