Jimi Hendrix was faced with a choice in 1961: spend two years in prison for stealing cars or join the Army. He chose the latter and enlisted in May 1961. After basic training, he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division and stationed at Fort Campbell, Ky. He asked his father to se...
Fort Campbell in Kentucky demolished several asbestos-containing buildings made during World War II in 2021. The list above contains only a few of many Army bases that used asbestos. Don’t see your base listed? You may still have been exposed. Call (866) 608-8933 to learn if a U.S. ...
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and I was next to the youngest. He joined the Air Force when he was 18, and part of his service included Vietnam. I was next to the youngest, so he was in the military while I was growing up. He would come home on leave, wearing his uniform, and I loved...
Lewis, who served as an infantry supply clerk at Fort Campbell, Kentucky from 1983 to 1984, had enough with his landlord. He turned to a nonprofit law firm, Veterans Legal Institute, which stepped in to represent Lewis free of charge after his apartment complex did not resolve the issue qui...
By the time he’d reached the end of his tour of duty, at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in 2019, he had risen to the rank of captain, been stationed in five different states and served in Kuwait and Afghanistan. He’d navigated a lot of challenges in a fairly short time. Now he faced ...
Billy Cox was stationed with the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in 1961, bassist Cox met a young Jimi Hendrix. They started jamming together, played after-hours gigs off-post, and kept performing after they both left the service eventually forming the "Band of Gypsys". ...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is responsible for managing the VA financial and health care benefits for all U.S. Army veterans and service members. To qualify for benefits,veterans with mesotheliomahave to prove they were: ...
While the footprint of DoD training is small compared to the fact that approximately two-thirds of physicians will have received at least some training in the VA system, understanding the contribution each system makes to the care of service members, military families, and veterans is vital to ...
They have two daughters; Barbara and husband Martin Thompson of Athens and Sharon and husband Richard Camp- bell of Seabrook, Texas; grandson, Jason Campbell of LaPorte, Texas; granddaughter, DeAnn and husband Kevin Murphy of Athens; great-grandson, Joss Murphy of Fresno, California, and great...