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Longest-serving KY Army Guard member retires
June 18, 2024 — Command Sgt. Major Robert C. Render, the senior enlisted advisor of the 103rd Brigade Support Battalion, retires after 43 years and 10 months of military service. Render is the currently longest-serving member of the Kentucky National Guard... MORE

Command Sgt. Maj. Robert C. Render, 103rd Brigade Support Battalion holds his grandson at his retirement in Harrodsburg, Kentucky on June 14, 2024. Render is retiring from the Kentucky Army National Guard with 43 years, and 10 months; he is longest serving member of the Kentucky National Guard. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Dickson)

Letters from Bataan: A Kentucky POW’s letters found after 75 years
April 13, 2023 — This month marks 81 years since the Bataan Death March in the Bataan Peninsula during World War II. Almost every member of the military can tell you the power of receiving mail during times of training; it’s hard to remember but many years ago, letter writing was the only form of communication while in basic training and overseas deployments for centuries before the days of cell phones and the internet. Finding the letters, as a historian, is also very vital to putting together the story of how our troops lived while at training. The author tends to write a detailed picture of their day-to-day life, how they spent their training, who was with them, and how they spent their off time... MORE

Kentucky Army National Guard Sgt. Jennings Bryan Scanlon from the Service Record, World War I and II in an undated photo album. Scanlon mobilized to the Philippine Islands with the 192nd Tank Battalion shortly before World War II began in the Pacific and was captured as part of the Bataan Death March. Scanlon died shortly after in a POW Camp. (Photo courtesy of the Harrodsburg, Ky. veterans' community).

103rd Brigade Support Battalion Headquarters gets new leadership
March 8, 2014 — Capt. Douglas Curdie took command of the Kentucky Army National Guard’s Headquarters and Headquarters’ Company, 103rd Brigade Support Battalion, 138th Fires Brigade, March 8, 2014, at a small ceremony in Harrodsburg, Ky. Curdie, a former Marine and current guardsman residing in Barbourville, Ky., assumed Command from Capt. Anthony Travis of Elizabethtown, Ky. Travis commanded the 103rd Headquarters for a period of 29 months, a time in which the 103rd earned the distinction of being recognized by the Department of the Army as the finest brigade support battalion in the entire Army National Guard... MORE

Curdie, a former Marine and current Kentucky Army National Guardsman residing in Barbourville, Ky., assumed Command from Capt. Anthony Travis of Elizabethtown, Ky.

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