For the past five years, Camp Atterbury has been home to the Individual Readiness Deployment Operation Program, processing over 400 contractors a week since 2010. This past week Camp Atterbury and the IRDO staff received its final flight of civilian contractors for the redeployment process. Camp Atterbury, located in Edinburgh, Indiana, began as a mobilization […]
You’ve not doubt heard the stories about people working past retirement age. Jeff Traylor has taken that to a new level. He’s 71 years old, a Vietnam veteran, and he’s working with the Air Force as a contractor in Afghanistan. He’s doing it because he needed the job. “Regardless of what they may say about age discrimination, […]
For the first time since Islamic State fighters advanced to within 25 miles of this Iraqi city last month, T Bar Sports Lounge is hopping. Jimmie Collins takes a sip of white wine and brushes back a loose strand of hair. "Can you kill the music?" she asks the bartender, who turns down the dial […]
More than 6,000 miles from Colorado, Ebola is raging in several countries in Africa. More than 2,600 people have died and another 5,000 have been infected in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia -- countries that are ill-equipped to deal with the virus. "This is ground zero, if you will, the country where most of the deaths […]
As an Army Ranger, Capt. Matthew Griffin never really believed military action in Afghanistan was a solution — a necessary heavy boot in the door, sure, but not something that would build lasting peace. After multiple deployments to that war-ravaged country, he saw plenty of death and destruction. But it was when he returned as a […]