Douglas Pugliese 98 was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps
Commendation Medal for meritorious service while serving as the Battalion
Medical Officer...
U.S. Army
Major John Toth 90 deployed to Iraq in October, 2005, with a
battalion replacing a unit from the Pennsylvania National Guard...
After a
thirty-four-year career, Brigadier General William
Boardley 72 retired as commander of the 171st Air Refueling Wing of
the Pennsylvania National Guard...
After being deployed to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait,
U.S. Army First Lieutenant Joel Machak 03 recently returned to the
States...
Bob
Smalanskas 82 wrote an article dedicated to Vietnam veteran Bernard Teel of
Elkins Park, Pa. It was publicized on the Military Family Network
for seventeen days and was featured in the July/August, 2005,
issue of Purple Heart magazine.
(Full
story...)
Kerin Baxter Hoffmann 96 and
her husband, Jason, were deployed together to Tikrit, Iraq...
U.S. Army Major
Mark Pike 89 is at Camp Shelby in Mississippi, awaiting a year-long
deployment to Iraq with the 228th FSB...
Bob Smalanskas 82 spoke
with U.S. Marine Private Julian Kollias. The result is a powerful
story about one Marines experiences in the initial Iraq invasion
and conveys respect for all U.S. veterans.
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story...) |
Army 1st Lieutenant
Stephen Mihalacki 01 is deployed in Iraq. He sent in this update...
 Army Majors Mark Martin '85 and
Larry Howard '87 stand in front of the presidential palace in Baghdad
as the first of four huge busts of Saddam Hussein was finally removed from
the rooftop... (select for more)
In
his latest move in a distinguished career with the United States Army,
Major General Alan Thrasher M'82 recently became Commanding General
of Cadet Command in Fort Monroe, Virginia. A graduate of North
Georgia College, Thrasher was commissioned as a second lieutenant of Field
Artillery in 1972 and served in a diversified array of positions
throughout his career...(select for more)
 In mid-September, 2003, Christopher Reese
96 returned to the United States after more than two hundred days on
active duty in the Middle East. A
staff sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps, Reese had a tour of duty that included
about fifty days in Iraq. He faced incoming missile attacks and
malaria-carrying mosquitoes; met generals, Congressmen, and celebrities;
took a dozen flights in CH-46 and CH-53 helicopters and C130 airplanes;
and managed to shoot over three thousand photographs. He provided Web
Extra with an exclusive report...
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 Lieutenant
Colonel David Ward 73 wrote a retrospective on his service in
Operation Iraqi Freedom:
I
wanted to thank everyone at IUP for your support and assistance. I am
finally going home after being here ten months.
When I arrived here in
August of 2002 there were less than 6,000 soldiers in Kuwait. I watched
the buildup and the indoctrination for war... (select for full letter)
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Carrying the IUP flag back into its third
tour in Iraq, Marine Corps captains Scott Shick 00 and Sean
Wright 92 supplied the following report
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Randall Marchi 78 was promoted to
the rank of Brigadier General in the Pennsylvania National Guard...
Gary Zimak, Jr. 96 is a Department of Defense contract firefighter
working in the Middle East...
Beth Grossi D92,
a criminal justice professor at the University of Louisville, is on
sabbatical while serving as inspector general with Eastern Region, based
at Fort Knox...
After
a long and distinguished
military career, retired U.S. Army Colonel
Stephen Abel 73 was appointed as the New Jersey Deputy Commissioner
for Veterans Affairs
Major Jim Popa 87, Major Kevin Bunton 87, and Captain
Robert Krebs 91 are all serving together with the U.S. Army in
Iraq...
U.S. Air Force Major Randy Green 84 is serving at the Air
Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Col. He sent Web Extra photos
and an update...
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Army 2nd Lt. Matthew Homa 02 is recovering well from serious
injuries he sustained while on duty in Iraq...
Alan Wagner '91, an
Observer/Controller at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk,
La., was promoted to Major...
Lieutenant Colonel David Ward '73
was mobilized in 2000 after being employed with the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for seventeen years...
A group of
IUP graduates and current students have been deployed in
Bosnia-Herzegovina in support of Operation Joint Endeavor...
Nearly twenty years and
over 7,000 miles from IUP, Lt. Col. Wendy Graham Leland 84 and
Major Mark Martin 85 met again at Bagram Air Base... |
Major Debra
Roesler '86 sent this update from Camp Doha in Kuwait (3/21/03):
"I've been in Kuwait
since October [2002] with CFLCC (Coalition Forces Land Component Command) in the
C3. I was here last year many times as well as in Qatar. I was the planner
of three major exercises in the AOR; in Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait. My
latest assignment was as the Army lead planner for BRIGHT STAR in Egypt,
the largest peacetime exercise in CENTCOM...
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