Category Archives: Hometown Military News

The American Veteran’s Traveling Tribute will be at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery in Bloomington Aug. 24-28. (Photo courtesy Facebook/AVTT Vietnam Wall)By Eric StockBLOOMINGTON – A veterans ...

Brig. Gen. Jeff Drushal, chief of transportation and commandant of the U.S. Army Transportation School, presents 1st Lt. Nathaniel Jungheim of Chicago, Illinois, with an award as the 2015 Transportati...

Deploying Airmen of the 183rd Air Operations Group based in Springfield, Illinois, board a C-130 aircraft on the first leg of their journey to duty in the Middle East. Approximately 80 members of the ...

Lt. Col. Jason Osberg of Champaign, incoming commander of Illinois’ 1st Battalion, 106th Aviation Regiment, based in Peoria, Illinois, addresses the Soldiers and families in attendance during th...

Gov. Bruce Rauner, left, speaks with 182nd Airlift Wing Commander Col. William Robertson during a tour of a C-130 Hercules aircraft at the 182nd Airlift Wing, Illinois Air National Guard, in Peoria, I...

The Illinois State Military Museum will host a World War II encampment on Saturday. (Photo courtesy Illinois National Guard)Hometown Military News: June 24, 2016:Military museum hosts World War II enc...

Brig. Gen. Ronald Paul, Assistant Adjutant General – Air of the Illinois National Guard presents a 1,000 dollar scholarship check to Cadet Noah Rogers of Armington, Illinois during the Lincoln&#...

Maj. Gen. Richard Hayes, Jr. (right), The Adjutant General, Illinois National Guard accepts the Illinois Army National Guard’s award for being the “most improved” National Guard orga...

Col. Dan McSeveney, left, commander of the 183d Combat Operations Squadron,discusses air operations with Brig. Gen. Slawomir Zakowski, center, and Col. Robert Weissgerber, right, from the Air Operatio...

Staff Sgt. Lindsey Gibbs of Pleasant Plains, Illinois, a readiness noncommissioned officer with the 65th Troop Command Brigade, plays a dead victim in a hallway as active shooter role players walk thr...