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The state Supreme Court declined to hear a National Guardsman's appeal of a judge's decision to throw out his vote in last year's Bellevue Council election.
Walter Daughenbaugh, an Afghanistan War veteran, voted by absentee ballot because he was traveling around the country training National Guard special forces units in November 2009. An election judge lost his ballot in her car.
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Maj. Gen. Allen B. Tackett, the longest-serving adjutant general of the West Virginia National Guard, announced Thursday during a Veterans Day appearance in Braxton County that he would step down as commander of more than 6,000 West Virginia citizen soldiers and airmen on Jan. 20.
Tackett, who began his military career in 1963 as a private in the West Virginia Army National Guard's 16th Special Forces Group, said his retirement would begin on Jan. 20, the 48th anniversary of his enlistment date.
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The state Supreme Court has declined to hear a National Guardsman's appeal of a judge's decision to throw out his vote in last year's Bellevue Council election.
Walter Daughenbaugh, an Afghanistan War veteran, voted by absentee ballot because he was traveling around the country training National Guard special forces units in November 2009. An election judge lost his ballot in her car and didn't know it was missing until the canvassing process the week after the election.
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AUSTIN, Texas, May 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After months of intense training and anticipation, Staff Sgt. Tim Kennedy, Texas Army National Guard Special Forces Soldier, an up-and-coming middleweight fighter will face Trevor Prangley, a 37-year-old with a 21-5 record, at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on June 16th.
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If you're in a West Virginia Army National Guard Special Forces battalion in Afghanistan and need some equipment delivered to a remote airfield as soon as possible, where do you call?
Lately, the answer has often been a West Virginia Air National Guard unit - the Charleston-based 130th Airlift Wing.
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ON Jan. 20, 1963, East Bank High School graduate Allen B. Tackett became a private in the West Virginia Army National Guard's 16th Special Forces Group.
On Jan. 20, 2011, Maj. Gen. Tackett will step down as commander of the state's National Guard units.
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The soldier who died in a parachute accident at Fort Harrison in Montana was from Blair County.
The Department of Defense identified the soldier as Sgt. Francis Campion of Hollidaysburg, who was a member of the 2nd Battalion 19th Special Forces Group, West Virginia Army National Guard.
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David Stauffer's favorite NASCAR driver might have a prayer Saturday night. Stauffer, the full-time pastor at Gateway Church of Christ in St. Albans, was selected to give the invocation before a sold-out crowd of 160,000 before the Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn. A nationwide audience also will see and hear his prayer on ESPN, with pre-race festivities starting around 7:30 p.m.
Stauffer, a chaplain who holds the rank of major, returned from Afghanistan in late July after a six-month deployment with the West Virginia Army National Guard's 2nd Battalion of the 19th Special Forces Group, based in Kenova. He also was deployed in 2004, to Iraq.
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WASHINGTON - Almost every member of a West Virginia National Guard Special Forces unit deployed to Afghanistan in December 2001 reported experiencing pay problems, the U.S. General Accounting Office said in a recent report.
The 19th Special Forces Group, 2nd Battalion, is headquartered in Kenova, with additional troops based at Camp Dawson in Preston County. The GAO report to Congress said 86 of the 94 unit members reported pay problems during their deployment.