PALMDALE – The city of Palmdale is seeking nominations for its Hometown Heroes Military Banner Program, which is designed to honor and recognize active, honorably discharged or retired military personnel who have lived in Palmdale.
Each banner will feature the individual’s photo, name, and branch of service. The banners will be displayed on light poles at the intersection of Rancho Vista Boulevard and 10th Street West from Veterans Day through New Year’s Day. The program is free, and the banners will be given to the honoree or their family at the end of the display.
Hometown Heroes can be nominated through Friday, Oct. 20, at 5 p.m., online at www.cityofpalmdaleca.gov/hometownheroes. A Veteran committee will select nominees for the banners.
To qualify, honorees must meet the following requirements:
- Active, honorably discharged, or retired personnel of the United States Armed Forces who served during time of war, from World War I to the present.
- Current or former Palmdale resident; or
- Immediate family member of a current or former Palmdale resident (spouse, child, grandchild).
The Hometown Heroes Banner Program is seeking sponsors. For questions about sponsorship, contact Deputy City Manager Nardy Lopez at nlopez@cityofpalmdale.org or 661-267-5177.
[Information via news release from the city of Palmdale.]
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Know when to fold em says
These banners will be a welcome change from all the billboards with Wreck’s mugshot all over them. People who drive through here must think we have a Kenny Rogers fetish.
Semper fi says
The Antelope Valley needs to work on its advertising, that 4th picture is hardly a hometown heroe. AV College recently aired a commercial that featured a fighter jet swooping into frame, only problem it wasn’t one of ours.
Templer says
Wow! This valley is really lacking in advertising research, that forth picture is Travis King hardly a hometown hero. Just weeks ago a constantly played AVC commercial noting the AVs aviation history… problem it was a Russian SU-27 that was featured. Maybe college education should be free.
Frank Benjamin says
Though service to our nation and its goals, and to the whim of Presidents, is obedient and well behaved, it does not mean that most soldiets are very different, in the end, from many who perform regular civilian jobs equivalent to the military jobs most soldiers experience.
US armed forces are a large global organiztion that must house and clothe and provide medical care for its employees. Which means that it must provision and plan for nearly all the needs of its employees. This means it must form a full scale economy and enterprise,or hire contractors to provide life’s necessities.
So. How many military members go into combat?
To get a better grasp on what this looks like, here are some key statistics:
Roughly 40% of those who join the military never get deployed to a combat zone at all.
10% to 20% of those who do find themselves on a deployment wind up in a combat zone. Remember, that is not 10 to 20% of the total. It is just 10 to 20% of the 60% who get deployed.
Most of the troops who do end up in combat zones do not actually enter combat against the enemy. They are support troops backing up those who do.
When you break it down, about one out of every 10 soldiers in the military — 10% overall — actually go to combat and have to fire their weapons.
We should be glad that only this small percentage needs to actually fire upon an enemy or be directly in the line of fire as a result.
But, when you see the banners, keep in mind that only every 10th banner might be a soldier who has fired or might need to fire upon an enemy. The rest are very much like civilians serving food, delivering stuff, pushing paper, doing research.
John says
Why not just keep the banners up all year round…