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  • Volunteers needed for Memorial Day ceremony

    Riverside National Cemetery is looking for several hundred volunteers for a very special Memorial Day holiday project. The Roll Call Project will take place at the cemetery around the clock during the week prior to the cemetery's annual Memorial Day ceremony. "There are more than 150,000 veterans

  • Blackbird Weekend at March Field Air Museum

    Hundreds of people visited March Field Air Museum Mar. 28 and 29 to get up close to see and touch the legendary SR-71 Blackbird. Audiences gathered inside the main museum hangar to hear retired Blackbird pilots exchange stories about their times in the cockpit of the world's fastest

  • Medal of Honor recipient leads Riverside’s Salute To Veterans Parade

    The Salute To Veterans Parade Committee is pleased and honored to announce that Medal of Honor recipient - Colonel Lewis Millett, US Army (Retired) - has agreed to be the Grand Marshal for the 4th annual Salute To Veterans Parade scheduled for 10 a.m. until noon on Saturday April 18, in downtown

  • Security Forces Squadron returns home from Iraq deployment

    Thirty 163d Security Forces Squadron members recently returned from a three month tour at Camp Sather, Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) in Iraq. While deployed, the service members were attached to 447th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, supporting Operation Iraq Freedom. Their role was to

  • Free falling with the Canadian SkyHawks

    While gathering opinions for The Beacon's Candid Comments section of the base paper, I ran into a gentleman named J.P. McCaan who told me he was with the Canadian SkyHawks. "Hmm ... Canadian SkyHawks? Sounds familiar," I thought. "I recognize the name but what do you do, exactly?" He said the