Fort Myers resident serving aboard USS Essex INDIAN OCEAN -- Machinist’s Mate Fireman Thomas Heins, from Fort Myers, Fla., left, conducts maintenance on a burner barrel aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) Jan. 8. The Essex, flagship of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), ...
BANGOR, Wash. – A Fort Myers, Florida, native is serving aboard USS Nevada, one of the world’s most advanced nuclear-powered submarines. Petty Officer 3rd Class Malachi Crater serves as a sonar technician and joined the Navy for the opportunity it provides. “I wanted more out of my ...
The Korean War Veterans Association, Southwest Florida Chapter 155, recently presented the Florida SouthWestern State College Foundation with a check for $10,000, fulfilling its endowed scholarship fund goal. The group began supporting FSW students with scholarships in 2007 and in 2011 decided ...
American Legion Post 90 high school shooting teams from Cape Coral excel at district and state levels in 2021. As students returned to school in person for the first time since 2020, one of the elective programs available is the Junior Reserve Officer’s Training Corps. It is a military ...
NORFOLK, Va. - A Fort Myers native is serving aboard one of the world’s largest warships, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). Petty Officer 3rd Class Ronald Cassamajor, a 2018 South Fort Myers High School graduate, joined the Navy three years ago. “I ...
Korean War Veterans Chapter 155 Southwest Florida President Bob Kent recently presented a check for $1,000 to Heather Chester, the director of development for the Florida SouthWestern State College Foundation. Chapter 155 has an endowment scholarship with FSW that started in 2008 and ...
Career Source Southwest Florida's Veterans Team will be holding a Veterans Hiring Event Monday, July 12, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Crowne Plaza, 13051 Bell Tower Drive, Fort Myers. Top tier companies such as Nor-Tech, Amazon, Lee Health, Family Health Center, Honc, 84 Lumber, Shaw ...
For Tom Ashford, this past Memorial Day was a solemn day to remember his father, 2nd Lt. George Ashford, who was killed on a bombing mission over Germany in World War II. Ashford, who has been splitting his time between Fort Myers Beach and Kentucky for 30 years, felt so strongly about his ...
The Estero Island Garden Club will honor veterans with the dedication of a Blue Star Memorial Marker at the Fort Myers Beach Public Library this Saturday. The marker, which has been covered in plastic outside the library’s entrance, will be unveiled at 10 a.m. The blue star was used on ...
On a recent April day, 144 golfers met on the links of Shell Point in South Fort Myers with one aim; to raise funds for the local veteran programs of the Lee Coast Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America. Lee County Commissioner Ray Sandelli was the honorary chairman for ...
