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  • Army Vietnam vet coaches Warrior Games athletes

    An Army Vietnam veteran is coaching wheelchair basketball at the Warrior Games here this week, but his duties extend way beyond the sport.Billy Demby said he's also coaching today's wounded warriors on how to get through the difficult process of healing from their wounds, illnesses and injuries

  • Air Force NCO survives cancer, tackles Warrior Games

    Air Force Staff Sgt. Lara Ishikawa found herself part of a trio of female Air Force Warrior Games athletes with a special bond.Ishikawa, Tech. Sgt. Monica Figueroa and Master Sgt. Sherry Nel are all cancer survivors and relied on each other's support and conversation during the team's selection camp

  • Warrior Games 2013: Airman gets second chance at life

    You only live once, the saying goes. That may be true for most, but for one former jet engine mechanic that is not the case.Former Senior Airman Darrell Fisher had been fascinated with aviation since he was a child growing up in Fayetteville, N.C. After working in the civilian sector for a while

  • Warrior Games 2013: Track and field star has 'wings on her back'

    Midway through retired Tech. Sgt. Katie Robinson's first track and field practice at the Air Force Warrior Games training camp, she pulled out a pair of butterfly wings from her workout bag and strapped them to her back. The wings were both comedy relief and symbolized a dramatic change several

  • Through Airmen's Eyes: Going for gold

    On July 5, 2011, Senior Airman Gideon L. Connelly was involved in a motorcycle accident in Baltimore County with serious damage to his left leg. The doctors told the Maryland Air National Guard repair and reclamation crew chief that, if he kept his leg, it would leave him with limitations to what he

  • Warrior Games 2013: Retired Airman struggles with PTSD while in training

    Second-year Warrior Games athlete George Stiltner recognized the look on retired Staff Sgt. Larry Franklin's face at the Air Force team's selection camp at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Stiltner had the same demeanor during his first year training for the Games. Now, he recognized a fellow former

  • Warrior Games 2013: Games makes injured man feel like Airman again

    Surrounded by his Air Force Warrior Games teammates as he trains to represent his service in archery, rifle shooting and sitting volleyball, Tech. Sgt. Axel Gaud-Torres feels like an Airman again.Since his childhood in Puerto Rico, Gaud-Torres wanted to join the U.S. Air Force, a dream he realized

  • Warrior Games 2013: Personal stories of adversity turned into triumph

    Warrior Games, a spirited competition that pits wounded, ill or injured service members and veterans against their representative services continues into its fourth year as teams converge on Colorado Springs, Colo., beginning May 11.This year, 50 Airmen or former Airmen will compete in individual

  • Through Airmen's Eyes: The walk toward flight

    There's a saying: "A journey begins with a single step." For a flight engineer assigned to the 8th Special Operations Squadron here, even a single step seemed like a lofty goal at one time. After Tech. Sgt. Christofer Curtis' CV-22 Osprey crashed during a mission in Afghanistan in April 2010, he was

  • Exchange rewards good grades

    Hard-working students deserve recognition, so the Army & Air Force Exchange Service is rewarding military students in grades 1-12 who maintain a "B" or better average with the "You Made the Grade" program."We love it when military students excel, so it's natural to encourage and reward great

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