Closing the Flight Plan

Colonel (Ret) Freddie Jim Mills age 91 of Lawrenceville, GA passed away Saturday, February 27, 2021. He was preceded in death by his parents, Fred and Aimee Jones Mills; his wife, Wanda; and daughter, Karen. Col Fred is survived by 3 children: daughter, Donna Mills Morgan (Perry) of Mabelvale AR, LTC Freddie J Mills, Jr. […]

Chief Warrant Officer 4 Jesse Anderson first entered the U.S. Army as an aviation warrant officer candidate in October 2000. He attended Basic Combat Training at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 2001 before going on to graduate from a six-week Warrant Officer Candidate School at Fort Rucker, Alabama, in 2002. After he was appointed as a

Chief Warrant Officer 3 George “Geoff” Laubhan Jr. enlisted into the Idaho Army National Guard in January 2010 as an AH-64 attack helicopter repairer with D Company, 1st Battalion of the 183rd Aviation Regiment. In 2012, he was selected for Army flight school and entered into the Warrant Officer Candidate School program the following year.

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Matthew Peltzer enlisted into the Idaho Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion of the 183rd Aviation Regiment as an officer candidate in July 2005. After attending Basic Combat Training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, he went on to graduate from the Idaho Army National Guard’s Officer Candidate School in 2007. Peltzer later attended

The New York National Guard released the identities of three service members killed in a helicopter training accident on Friday, a day after their bodies were recovered and transported by police and fire escort from the crash site. The victims include Chief Warrant Officer Steven Skoda, a 35-year veteran of the Army and the New York

SAN ANTONIO, Texas—Virgil E. Mielke, 92, passed away Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, in San Antonio, Texas. Virgil was the seventh of 12 children born to Ernest and Hazel Mielke in Savanna. He graduated from Savanna High School and Northern Illinois Teachers College in DeKalb. He began his teaching career in Mount Carroll before being drafted

Monday, November 16, 2020, Christopher Doyle Carney passed away at the age of 56. Chris was born December 24, 1963 in Nashville, Tennessee. He joined the US Air Force at 17 to become a pilot and serve the country he loved so much. He later transferred to the US Army and flew Medevac Blackhawk Helicopter

October 8, 1947 – November 15, 2020Eastover, South Carolina – Edward Talmadge Chisenhall, Jr. was granted eternal peace on Sunday, November 15, 2020 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Born October 8, 1947 in Columbia, S.C., he was a son of the late Edward Talmadge Chisenhall and Edith Ester Clary Chisenhall. Tam, as he

Jacob “Jack” FriedmanNovember 12, 2020Fort Worth, Texas – Jack Friedman, longtime resident of Fort Worth, died at home on November 12, 2020 at the age of 76. He is survived by his wife and love of his life, Sue, and by their four children, each of whom he loved “the best”: his daughter, Robin (Tom);

William Blanchard Durand, “Bill”, 83, of Severna Park, MD died on Friday, October 30 in Pasadena, MD. Born on July 29, 1937 in Rahway, NJ to the late Edwin M. and Genevieve L. Durand, Bill earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Rutgers University in 1960. He served in the U.S. Army as a Medevac