FORT BENNING, GA – “I have a quote on my business card that we sort of coined around here. ‘Fort Benning Georgia, the muscular skeletal center of the universe,’” shared Martin Army Community Hospital Department of Rehabilitative Services Chief Maj. Travis Robbins. “Because Fort Bragg they always call themselves the center of the universe.
“No, BMACH is the center of the universe,” asserted Robbins. “I have found that my roles and the people here at Benning have been the best that I’ve worked with in my 20 years in the Army. And I’ve worked at some great places.”
The 47-year-old admitted he kind of fell into his specialty. And that lucky happenstance has been true for most of his career progression through postings at Walter Reed, Fort Riley and Fort Jackson.
By MILES SAMPLE | Stars and Stripes | Published: June 19, 1978 YOKOSUKA NB, Japan Mark Hamill, a shooting star success in the futuristic fantasy film, Star Wars, rode a helicopter instead of a space vehicle Friday and flew straight into the nostalgic past. Hamill was picked up by a Navy chopper in Tokyo and landed near Nile C. Kinnick High School at Yokosuka NB, where he was hailed by Principal Douglas M. Spaulding as the school s most distinguished graduate. Less than a decade after picking up his diploma at Kinnick, Hamill is better known worldwide as Luke Skywalker, the intrepid hero who turns back intergalactic invaders in a film as successful as the 26-year-old actor himself.
AN AMERICAN D-Day hero who was stationed in Bridport prior to the landings has died aged 100. Staff Sergeant Ray Lambert was one of the last surviving soldiers of the D-Day landings at Omaha Beach, Normandy, during the Second World War. He died at his home in North Carolina on April 9. Serving as a medic in the medical detachment to the 2nd Battalion of the 16th Regiment and the 1st Division, he was in Bridport from November 1943 until June 1944. The medical detachment was based in the Literary and Scientific Institute in East Street as well as some houses in Barrack Street.
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