ARMED FORCES

ARMED FORCES

VETERANS

Recognition banquet

AUSTINTOWN

The United Veterans Council’s 73rd Annual Veteran and Citizen of the Year Recognition Banquet will take place at 6 p.m. Friday at the Saxon Club, 710 S. Meridian Road.

The keynote speaker is Dr. Robert Marcus, homeless-outreach coordinator for the Youngstown Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.

Tickets are $20. Call Rod Hosler at 330-788-3270 or Barry Landgraver at 330-740-2450.

Armed Forces Day celebration dinner

VIENNA

The Youngstown Air Reserve Base Community Council is celebrating Armed Forces Day with a dinner at 5:30 p.m. May 14 at the Youngstown Air Reserve Station, 3976 King Graves Road. The cost is $25 per person.

Send reservation requests to Holly Baker, YARBCC, 10550 Sharrott Road, North Lima, OH 44452, or call 330-531-0120 for information. No tickets will be sold at the door.

Shuttle exhibit open

DAYTON

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force’s new Space Shuttle Exhibit opened to the public in February.

The exhibit, which features NASA’s first Crew Compartment Trainer, allows visitors to experience the size and shape of an actual space-shuttle orbiter by entering the payload bay and looking into the flight deck and mid-deck levels.

Other components of the Space Shuttle Exhibit, which is housed in the National Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, include two interactive space-shuttle landing simulators that were added last summer and allow visitors to test their skill at landing a space-shuttle orbiter.

Photos of the Space Shuttle Exhibit and STEM Learning Node are available at www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/cct.asp. Interior photos of the flight deck and mid-deck also are available as part of the museum’s interactive 360-degree virtual tour at www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/virtualtour/cockpits.asp.

BASIC TRAINING GRADS

Air Force: Airman Noah R. Beal (East Palestine High School, ’13), son of Richard and Darla Beal of East Palestine; Reserve Airman Christopher M. Hughes (East Palestine High School, ’10), son of Wendy and Michael Hughes of East Palestine; Reserve Airman 1st Class Daniel J. Clegg (South Range High School, Canfield, ’11), son of Katie and Jeff Clegg of North Lima; Air National Guard Airman Brett T. Sloan (Boardman High School, ’09), son of Thomas Sloan of Boardman and grandson of Patricia Sloan of East Liverpool; Reserve Airman Allissa A. Sparks (Mineral Ridge High School, ’13), daughter of Tammy Danes of Austintown and Scott Sparks of McDonald; Reserve Airman Brandon E. Kays (Ursuline High School, Youngstown, ’11), grandson of Carol Thompson of Austintown and Shirley Kays of Diamond.

Navy: Seaman Tiffanie A. Radford, (West Middlesex High School, West Middlesex, Pa., ’96), daughter of Ronald F. Radford of Sharon, Pa.

Items of note for the Armed Forces Digest can be sent to The Vindicator, Regional Desk, P.O. Box 780, Youngstown 44501-0780, or emailed to William Alcorn at alcorn@vindy.com