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Aug 18, 2022

Today in military history: 101st Airborne escorts Black students as Central High integrates

On Sep. 25 1957, the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division escorted nine Black students into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled…

BYTeam Mighty

Aug 18, 2022

BYJessica Evans

Jan 27, 2021

Why Arkansas’ Military Veterans Hall of Fame is unlike any other

Think Hall of Fames are regulated just to sports? Turns out that’s not true. In fact, there’s a Robot Hall of Fame in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a Toy Hall of Fame…

BYJessica Evans

Jan 27, 2021

BYUnited States Army

Apr 29, 2020

Oklahoma resident opens heart and home to guardsmen

Two weeks ago, a man named Bob and the soldiers of Headquarters Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 279th Infantry Regiment had never met. They would have never met. They would have continued being perfect strangers and never knowing of the other’…

BYUnited States Army

Apr 29, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

Two men arrested for voluntarily shooting each other while wearing bulletproof vests

Two men in Rogers, Arkansas, were arrested for taking turns shooting each other while the other wore a bulletproof vest, law-enforcement officials said. Charles Ferris, 50, and his neighbor, 36-year-old Christopher Hicks were drinking on the d…

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020