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101st Airborne Division

'True American Hero': NJ Teacher, Army Vet With 2 Purple Hearts Receives National Honor 'True American Hero': NJ Teacher, Army Vet With 2 Purple Hearts Receives National Honor
'True American Hero': NJ Teacher, Army Vet With 2 Purple Hearts Receives National Honor A New Jersey teacher and US Army veteran with two Purple Hearts received a national honor for the sacrifices she made for America. US Army SSG Vanessa Schieber, of Northampton County, PA, was name among the Patriot Project's honorees for 2023. The Purple Heart Patriot Project is a program of the National Purple Heart Honor Mission. Vanessa SchieberNational Purple Heart Honor Mission Schieber, 37, enlisted in the Army in April 2007 and served for 11 years a member of the 101st Airborne Division, and later the 1st Armor Division. Her first deployment came in 2008, as part of Operation Ira…
Black Hawk Crash Kills NJ's Sgt. David Solinas Jr., 8 Other U.S. Soldiers Black Hawk Crash Kills NJ's Sgt. David Solinas Jr., 8 Other U.S. Soldiers
Black Hawk Crash Kills NJ's Sgt. David Solinas Jr., 8 Other U.S. Soldiers A 23-year-old New Jersey man was identified among the nine U.S. Army soldiers killed in this week's Black Hawk helicopter crash during a nighttime training exercise in Kentucky. Sgt. David Solinas Jr. was killed when two HH-60 Black Hawk, medical evacuation helicopters collided during a routine training mission on Wednesday, March 29, in a residential field in Fort Campbell Kentucky. All nine service members occupying both helicopters were killed (scroll for photos). FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – The identities of nine 101st Airborne Division Soldiers are being released following the official.…