Posted by: Carol Armstrong on: January 26, 2010
CAPT Loren Heckelman, USN Ret, briefs the members attending the Toys for November Tots Luncheon on the Pocket Field Pillows program. This program was started by Carol Armstrong of Chesapeake, who has a son deployed to the deeper regions of Afghanistan. She has created Operation PFP. This effort involves making Pocket Field Pillows (PFPs), embroidering [...]
Posted by: Carol Armstrong on: January 15, 2010
He came home! Nick and his brigade, the 3rd BCT, 10th Mountain Division, has returned home. We attended the homecoming ceremony at FT Drum last weekend; Nick and a few of the companies within the 1-32 IN came marching into MacGrath gym, and luckily for the thousand or so folks attending, the ceremony was short [...]
Posted by: Carol Armstrong on: January 1, 2010
My oldest child, my hero, is coming home after a 12 month deployment to Afghanistan as an Army Infantryman. We’ll fly to FT Drum, NY, in about a week to welcome him and his Brigade home from a grueling year away from home. Nick served with over 3,000 of his closest buddies in a God forsaken [...]
