Lt. Col. Daniel Tack was sworn in as Commander of the 179th Mission Support Group with the Mansfield Lahm Airport, relieving Col. Lindsey Whitehead from that position on Friday morning […]
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Panther Racing shares a message with Girl Scouts
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Ohio National Guard Ohio’s Heartland Girl Scout Council Panther Racing Earlier in the week, National Guard Indy driver Oriol Servia and John Barnes, CEO of Panther […]
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Ohio National Guard members get Indy experience at Mid-Ohio
COLUMBUS — Panther Racing will recognize the Ohio National Guard during the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge and The Honda Indy® 200 at Mid-Ohio this weekend, August 1-4, 2013. A series […]
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Korean War ceremony marks veteran’s heroism, service
Gray clouds might have rained out the parade, but the spirit inside Mansfield Amvets Post 26 was anything but dampened. Saturday morning rain brought on a cancelation of a 10:30 […]
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Ohio National Guard celebrates 225th birthday
This week the Ohio National Guard celebrated two and a quarter centuries of service. Founded in 1778 in Marietta, the Ohio National Guard roots go back to the early colonial […]
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Local Korean War vet holds deep appreciation for service
“It isn’t all fighting when you are in the military,” said Korean War Vet David Dalton of Mansfield. Dalton, originally from Hayesville, enlisted in the Navy Reserves January 1952 at […]
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Korean War veterans to be honored Saturday
There are 1,164 living Korean War Veterans in Richland County today; and on Saturday, those veterans will be honored during a parade and ceremony in Mansfield. The parade marks the […]
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Korean War veterans remember and continue to serve
After World War II, the Korean peninsula was divided in two by the 38th parallel. The Soviet Union occupied the Northern zone, and the U.S. occupied the south. As ideologies […]
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Golf Tournament to benefit military families
Mansfield Lahm Military Families (MLMF) is hosting a Scholarship Golf Tournament in September. The tournament will be held at the Shelby Country Club, located at 3885 Laser Road in Shelby, […]
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VFW commander sees dream realized
John J. Pifer joined the U.S. Army at the age of 17 in Mansfield on February 10, 1958 and retired on October 1, 1979, 22 years later as a sergeant […]