Unlike Athens to the north, Sparta was famed for its austerity—its “spartan” character—was, and is, proverbial. A state run by an inflexible military regime, whose people existed almost ...

Soldiers with a Michigan Army National Guard in Grayling soon will leave the U.S. to spend about a year disarming explosives ...

LANSING Soldiers assigned to the Michigan Army National Guard’s (MIARNG) 745th Ordnance Company, based out of Grayling, ...

About 100 Ohio Army National Guard members deployed Sunday to the U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility in support of Operation Spartan Shield. The public attended a call to duty ceremony ...

The Grayling-based Michigan Army National Guard’s 745th Ordnance Company will soon be deployed to the Middle East to support ...

Then news reached him of an advancing Spartan army, forcing him to take to the field. Both sides had amassed huge armies. Almost every city in Greece had sent a contingent to support the effort ...

Soldiers from the Michigan Army National Guard’s (MIARNG) 745th Ordnance Company, based out of Grayling prepared to depart on ...