Military

- It's storybook time, Marine! (photo)
- It was billed as a day that U.S. Marines would be reading to children at the Foothills Library, 13226 E. South Frontage Road. But when Anna-Kate Ross, 3, (first photo) said she could read too, she walked up, took a seat next to Cpl. Benjamin... Full story
- Charity football game scores touchdown for children
- BY JAMES GILBERT, SUN STAFF WRITER
- A team of Marines from Marine Corps Air Station Yuma will play against a team of players from five area high schools on Friday night in an annual charity game of flag football to collect toys for underprivileged children in Yuma County.
Now in its... Full story

- MCAS' new exchange opening Wednesday
- BY CPL. LAURA A. MAPES, SPECIAL TO YUMA SUN
- After about 14 months of construction, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma's new Marine Corps Exchange is scheduled to open Wednesday.
The grand opening of the 64,000-square-foot MCX complex will have four event-packed days - Wednesday through Saturday -... Full story

- YPG NCO shows leadership in action
- BY MARK SCHAUER, SPECIAL TO YUMA SUN
- In a career that spans 26 years, Sgt. 1st Class Larry Thompson has served around the world, including two deployments to Iraq and one to Afghanistan, experiences that have given him an invaluable sense of leadership while maintaining a positive... Full story

- Military Working Dogs in training
- BY STEPHANIE A. WILKEN, SUN STAFF WRITER
- They might look cute and cuddly, but Military Working Dogs are all business when it comes to doing their jobs.In Yuma, some dogs from the Air Force, Army, Marines and Navy train at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground before being deployed with the... Full story

- Yuman spends year with Iraqi legal system
- BY JAMES GILBERT, SUN STAFF WRITER
- Although the work being done by the Law and Order Task Force has gone mostly unnoticed here in this country, Yuma attorney and former prosecutor Conrad Mallek says he knows the year he spent in Iraq was important, as part of it was crucial in... Full story

- YPG considers H1N1 effects
- BY JAMES GILBERT, SUN STAFF WRITER
- How Yuma Proving Ground would be affected by a significant outbreak of the H1N1 virus was the topic of a training exercise Monday at YPG's Emergency Operations Center.With 2,500 employees, Ron Rodriguez, director of plans, training, mobilization and... Full story

- Veterans' pride on parade (photo)
- The 2009 Veterans Day parade, sponsored by American Legion Post 19, proceeded Wednesday from 17th Place and 4th Avenue to 25th Street, ending at the American Legion building, 2575 S. Virginia Drive. The parade's theme was "Women Veterans."
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- Man recalls days of service, camping
- BY JAMES GILBERT, SUN STAFF WRITER
- For more than 35 years now, a group of friends who all served together in the military have been coming back to Yuma every year to go camping in the Kofa Desert.As part of the camping trip this year, those friends, and some of their family members,... Full story

- Yuma soldier minutes from Fort Hood shooting
- BY CESAR NEYOY, BAJO EL SOL
- As U.S. Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly showered fellow soldiers with gunfire Nov. 5 at Fort Hood Texas, U.S. Army Private First Class Andrew Pretty was just minutes away.
Pretty, who graduated from Kofa High School in 2008,... Full story