MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE - For more than a year now the 908th Airlift Wing has been preparing for the wing’s largest deployment in its history and quite possibly its last as a C-130 tactical airlift ...

Home for the Holidays is a phrase that brings joy and smiles to most of us this time of year. In recent years, it conjures up the image of our men and women in uniform returning to their loved ones — ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Sgt. Darrin Davis went to the recent Yellow Ribbon event in St. Louis with low expectations -- he thought it was going to be a series of "typical Army classes" that offered little ...

Long deployments overseas take their toll not only on the men and women on the front lines, but also on the family members they leave behind. That's why members of the 301st Fighter Wing took part in ...

The Department of Defense said it is moving forward with a program to help National Guardsmen and reservists move back into civilian life despite senators from Maryland and Minnesota who say the ...

The U.S. Senate passed legislation Monday that would create a national reintegration program for members of the National Guard and Reserve based on the Beyond the Yellow Ribbon program of the ...

WASHINGTON U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., praised the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee for including $65.4 million in the emergency supplemental package for the Yellow Ribbon ...

A program initiated by the Minnesota National Guard to help soldiers reintegrate into society after returning from combat duty has received national accolades. Called "Beyond the Yellow Ribbon," the ...

When the two children of Capt. Hayes Preston of the Maryland National Guard ask him every day if he?s returning to combat in Iraq, he struggles to alleviate their fears and his apprehension. “I can?t ...