Nov 23rd, 2009
Spc. Julie Boggs said she was surprised her deployment allowed her to cross paths with her sister, Tech. Sgt. Miranda Minshew.
“It is kind of a long shot chance with her being in the Air Force,” said the soldier assigned to the 263rd Quartermaster Company. “The chance wasn’t very big that we were going to be deployed at the same time and actually see each other with all the different bases and our jobs being completely different.”
Oct 8th, 2009
On leave from a deployment in Kuwait, Louisiana Army National Guard 2nd Lt. Crystal A. Huff welcomed her sister Mindy M. Donnelly into the National Guard by administering the oath of enlistment during a swearing-in ceremony at the Military Entrance Processing Station in Shreveport, La., Sept. 30.
“The Guard is like a family to me,” said Huff, a member of the 204th Theater Aviation Operations Group. “I met my husband in the military and now have both my nephew and sister in the National Guard as well.”
Jul 6th, 2009
Sisters Nedra Placke, of Dayton, Ohio, and Annette Havens, of Beavercreek, Ohio, recently received promotions from private 1st class to specialist in front of their fellow Soldiers in Headquarters, 155th Chemical Battalion. It was a special day for two sisters who have spent much of their short military service separated.
May 6th, 2009
“It was good to be able to spend what time together that we could,” Melodie Hunt said. “We work out together, and sometimes eat meals, which is more than we had when she was in Germany.”
Her sister agreed. “The older we have become, the closer we have gotten,” Mallorie Hunt said. “Sharing this deployment has helped that.”