June 12, 2025 Full circle moment: father and son serving together at McConnell AFB Jakob Harris was just a toddler when his dad decided to join the Air Force for the long-haul. However, for most of Harris’s childhood, the military felt like a distant and foreign concept. Harris was born and raised in one Tennessee town while his dad had multiple duty locations and deployments.
Nov. 8, 2023 World War II veteran to receive Legion of Honor Retired Capt. Joe Kenneth Jones, a 100-year-old World War II Army infantry veteran, will receive the National Order of the Legion of Honor on Nov. 11, 2023, at Memorial Field, Clemson University, South Carolina.