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Memorial for airman killed in car crash
A memorial service will be held Friday at 7 p.m. in the Lone Tree Golf and Event Center for Air Force Airman 1st Class Kyle Truitt, a 2006 Liberty High School graduate. Truitt, 23, died in a car cr...

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Service celebrated
Master Sgt. Lawrence J. Polk recently retired from the Air Force after 28 years of service. Polk was born on March 14, 1955 in San Francisco. He graduated from Del Valle High School in Walnut Cree...

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Cmdr. Alexandra Luckhardt
Oakley’s Cmdr. Alexandra Luckhardt, a nurse in the United States Navy Reserves, is presently deployed in Kandahar, Afghanistan at the Nato Role 3 Hospital, assigned to the Intensive Care Unit. She ...

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U.S. Army PVT3 Cody Lightfoot
The community recently welcomed home U.S. Army PVT3 Cody Lightfoot home to Discovery Bay after his return from Iraq. Trained as a driver/gunner, he spent most of his tour manning a gun atop a Humve...

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Following a 27-year absence from her native Afghanistan, Antioch resident and NATO linguist Rafia Yusuf returned to Kabul to work for NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan at Camp Eggers.<br><i>Photo by Elizabeth Thompson</i>

Helping others in Afghanistan
Walking around Camp Eggers, Antioch resident and contracted linguist Rafia Yusuf is flooded with pleasant memories of the pre-soviet Kabul she grew up in, a Kabul she hardly recognizes now. She re...

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Cpl. Michael Alexander Holzer
Cpl. Michael Alexander Holzer has been named the Soldier of the Month at Fort Drum, N.Y. Holzer is a scout sniper with the 10th Mountain Division and a veteran of Afghanistan. He graduated from Lib...

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Serving America
Lt. j.g. Joshua Moody recently returned to San Diego after a six-month deployment in Panama. While deployed, he passed his qualification for surface warfare supply corps officer and was pinned as a...

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Wounded Iraq veteran Ricky France and wife Shannon stand inside their new Brentwood home with their children. From left are Arreanna, Arhyia, Micah, Destiny and Jon. The family was given the house, free and clear, by the Military Warrior Support Network and JP Morgan Chase Bank.<br><i>Photo courtesy of JP Morgan Chase Bank</i>

A special Thanksgiving homecoming
For wounded Iraq war veteran Ricky France and his family, Nov. 5 was a major roller coaster ride. The home he and wife Shannon rented in Loomis had been lost to foreclosure and, unable to find an a...

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Brentwood dentist Dr. Tracy Benhamou has fun with some of the 176 pounds of candy he bought from local trick-or-treaters. The candy (along with toothbrushes) will be shipped to U.S. troops serving overseas.

Halloween treats headed overseas
Troops deployed overseas will soon receive more than 175 pounds of candy thanks to local school kids, residents and Brentwood dentist Tracy Benhamou. For the second year, Benhamou’s Oak Street Fam...

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New Marine
Congratulations to my son Hector E. Perez. He has been a Brentwood resident for 19 years and he graduated from Liberty High School in 2011. I never thought he would come home one day to tell me th...

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