Former DWU professor returns from overseas service
January 1, 2013 in The Daily Republic
Former Dakota Wesleyan University professor and Mitchell resident Dr. Anthony “Tony” Cole, a major in the U.S. Army Reserve, has returned from deployment to Kuwait in support of Operation New Dawn and Operation Enduring Freedom.
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About 40 friends and family packed into cars and a mobile home Friday to make the trek from the most western part of North Dakota to Dickinson’s Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport to finally say hello to Josh Barthel face-to-face. The National Guard specialist arrived Friday night to welcome signs, balloons, cheers and hugs after a yearlong deployment in Kuwait.
Ron Chapman sees his military career in numbers. Chapman, 42, returned in April to his home in White Bear Township from a sweltering, sandy camp in Kuwait, the last stop in three deployments over five years. He’s been home only two months in the past two years. In the lives of his three children, he said, that time has added up.
Four Park Rapids soldiers met up at a Bataan Memorial Death March in Kuwait earlier this month.
Syrian rebels said they were making a “tactical retreat” today from a besieged district in opposition stronghold of Homs following a punishing, monthlong military assault. They said they were running out of weapons and humanitarian conditions were catastrophic.
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