Stories - Year 2015

Marines

Archive: 2015

Minnesota State Champion to Become United States Marine

Tyler Morgan, a Windom Area High School athlete, competed in the Minnesota State High School Track and Field Tournament, June 5, winning the title of Minnesota State High School Shot Put Champion, throwing his all-time best shot put, at 52 feet and 10.5 inches. He also competed in discus throwing, where he took 5th place. But Morgan’s desire to

Memorial Day 2015

CHICAGO – Service members joined residents of Chicago and surrounding cities Saturday in downtown Chicago in order to commemorate the lives of those fallen heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation and American freedom. With this year marking 70 years since the conclusion of World War II, the event’s mission remains the same,

Caring For Kids: Military Child Appreciation Month

Marines stationed aboard Naval Station Great Lakes volunteered at Howard A. Yeager Elementary school in Great Lakes, Ill., Apr. 15, to support the local community in honor of Military Child Appreciation month.

From Sudanese Refugee to US Marine

Staff Sgt. Kon Biliu is originally from South Sudan. As a young man, he moved along with his family to Yemen where his father taught in high school. In the year 1999 his father lost his job as a teacher and they could not go back home to Sudan due to the ongoing civil war. They had no home country; nowhere to go. They were refugees. But that was