Military

Cathy Allred

U.S. Navy Capt. Richard Guernsey of Pleasant Grove wants to bring an Iraqi friend home.

TBILISI, Georgia -- Georgia's president grudgingly signed a truce with Russia Friday, even as he denounced the Russians as invading barbarians and accused the West of all but encouraging them to overrun his country. A stone-faced Condoleezza Rice, standing alongside, said Russian troops must withdraw immediately from their smaller neighbor.

You try looking this good when you're 135.

Air Force Airman 1st Class Jake R. Cottle has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

When Army Lt. Col. Frank Smith was assigned to a secret military project in the early 1940s, nobody told him what he would be working on.

• FOR YEARS, HE DESIGNED components for a device without knowing its purpose. He wasn't permitted to tell anyone where or how he spent his time. He worked on parts of the project in Michigan, Ohio, New Mexico, and the distant Marshall Islands, southeast of Japan.

Camp Williams is preparing to expand, adding extra soldiers, land, and new facilities.

With the symbolic passing of the unit's colors Sunday, Orem resident Lt. Col. Alan Garrett took command of the Utah Army National Guard's 141st Military Intelligence Battalion, also headquartered in Orem.

Eagle Mountain residents took observance of National Military Week to a higher level and gave a veteran a new home.

Pony Express Days kicked off Tuesday with the "Boot Scootin' Boogie" 2008 Baby Contest. At least 30 babies were chosen out of 100 finalists to ride in the Pony Express Days parade.

Out of some of the worst tragedies can come good things.

Few eyes were dry at the American Fork Memorial Day service Monday as the city remembered a fallen hero buried only one year ago.

"Fire in the hole!"