Veterans of Foreign Wars All-American Post 10904 is partnering with Access Hope 24/7 to announce a new group for military veterans and first responders. The DD-214 Alumni Meeting will be held the first Thursday of each month at 6 PM at 411 South Anderson Street in Tullahoma. Since first responders often face similar types of traumas that military people do, …
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The Manchester Patriot Day Ceremony was held Saturday night at the VFW building. Over 250 were in attendance. Westwood Middle School provided the event artwork, Coffee County Central High School provided the refreshments and Manchester Fire Department for draping the American over the Post building. Also, here is a list of the awards that were …
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More than 35 Soldiers from the Tennessee National Guard’s 1-107th Air Operations Battalion, headquartered in Tullahoma, will be leaving this weekend for an 11-month deployment to the Horn of Africa. The Guardsmen traveled to Fort Hood, Texas, on Sunday to undergo final mobilization training before arriving at their final duty station in Djibouti and …
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Like many young men who saw the threat of global fascism rising in Europe, Whitney Duhon left his high school in Abbeville, Louisiana in January 1941 at the age of 16. Crossing the Atlantic aboard the Queen Mary with thousands of other troops, he went on to serve in the Northern Europe, Ardennes, Rhineland and …
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Workers at Arnold AFB discovered a powdered bromine leak during a facility walk down of the Turbine Engine Cooling Towers on Friday at approximately 5 p.m. Some of the powdered bromine compound mixed with the humid air and gasified, creating a gaseous plume. A cordon was established and nearby buildings evacuated. No employees reported bromine …
Tullahoma City Schools is excited to announce that it will be hosting a special guest speaker at Convocation on July 26 that will help kick off the 2021-22 school year with a motivational and inspiring message for all teachers and staff. Keni Thomas is a Bronze Star recipient for valor for being part of a …
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700 workers at Arnold Air Force Base in Tullahoma, remain on strike. Members of Air Engineering Metal Trades workers voted recently to reject the latest offer from National Aerospace Solutions, LLC, and continue striking. The strike is in its second week. One of the key issues in the strike is the cutting of disability pay, …
Since the Veterans of Foreign Wars was established in Tennessee in 1930, no Tennessee Post that has earned the coveted All-American Post designation for three years in a row… until now. Manchester’s Stone Fort Memorial, VFW Post 10904, established in 1990, has now been awarded the All-State Post Award for the fourth consecutive year as well as the VFW National …
Seven places in Tennessee have been added to the National Register of Historic Places. One of those is in Tullahoma, which is a WWII-era aircraft hangar. Middle Tennessee was a center of military training during WWII, with Camp Forrest in Tullahoma and the Smyrna Army Airfield in Rutherford County. The Tullahoma Army Base (now Tullahoma Regional …
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When the Tennessee National Guard needed volunteers to help Tennessee’s Department of Health fight the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of Soldiers and Airmen volunteered. One Soldier that immediately answered the call was Sgt. Jessie James, a motor transport operator with Tullahoma’s 1175th Transportation Company. A Manchester native, James was not going to miss the opportunity to …
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