PUBLISHER’S CUT Task Force Gator Most Valuable Boomer Bravo Zulu A Force Multiplier, Then and Now Let Them Hear Your Voice

Too Much News, Too Few Pages.

There is a lot of on base, in town and pro-military news happening across The Liberty Coast, Florida’s largest community of military Servicemembers, Veterans and their families. It stretches from Kings Bay to the Matanzas Bay, up the Ocklawaha and the St Johns rivers and across Kingsley Lake. Result? Too many stories, events, opinions and introductions to pro-military businesses to fit in the pages of each print issue of Liberty Life.

Sharing the Rest of the Stories

Lady Liberty surveying her domain. Photo: Released. The Publisher’s Cut. We can’t have that. Scan the QR codes next to each storyline to enjoy these good reads online at LibertyLife Media.Com.

Task Force Gator. A Florida National Guard unit started out on a deployment to Europe last December to train with our allies. Then the Russians invaded Ukraine. Read how their deployment of training transitioned into a real world crash course to help Ukraine defend itself.

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Most Valuable Boomer. Commissioned in 1986, USS Alaska is the seventh Ohio-class TRIDENT nuclear powered fleet ballistic missile submarine and the fourth United States Navy ship to bear the name of the territory or the state of Alaska. She also needs a bigger trophy case to display yet another Omaha Trophy.

Bravo Zulu (BZ). “BZ” means well done. Behind the gates of the numerous military installations on The Liberty Coast are many high-performing Servicemembers. Scan here and read about some of them.

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On Our Front Porch. Traveling from Ukraine to Poland, on to Paris, to Mexico City, to Tijuana, to San Diego and then Florida, 137 Ukrainian warfighter’s families - mothers and their children - have made it to safe harbor in Jacksonville.

A Force Multiplier, Then And Now.

Constantly training, in combat to catch the bad guys and teaching foreign internal defense, after 19 years as a US Army Special Forces Green Beret, it can be hard to disengage. One Soldier’s journey to find disengagement led him to help others do just that, one wave at a time.

USAF Veteran Teresa Cluff One Of The First Women. “You want to be in a man’s world so here you are,” is how Teresa Cluff was greeted by some after she joined the US Air Force in 1974 as an aircraft mechanic. Read her experiences.

Let Them Hear Your Voice. Contribute to a leading resource that is used to better understand the issues facing those who serve our nation. Blue Star Families 2022 Military Family Lifestyle Survey is open.

SUNDAY MAY 29 TH 8PM ON JAX PBS 7.1

(Comcast 440)

Tune in to the annual broadcast of America's national night of remembrance. The multi-award-winning event honors the military service of all our men and women in uniform, their families and those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

A CAPITOL FOURTH

Monday, July 4 at 8PM on Jax PBS 7.1 (Comcast 440)

The 42nd edition of America's Inde- pendence Day celebration features performances by top stars from pop, country, R&B, classical and Broadway, capped off with patriotic classics and a spectacular fireworks display over the Washington, DC skyline.