Widow, 90, faces economic hardship amid massive backlog of veteran records

Widow, 90, faces economic hardship amid massive backlog of veteran records

Ninety-year-old Susana Mallinson has been waiting over a year for her husband Frank’s military service records from the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis.  She is among the roughly 500,000 military family members affected by the massive backlog of record requests at the NPRC, an agency of the National Archives.  Susana Mallinson’s late

Manufacturing veteran starts recruiting firm to meet industry’s talent needs

Manufacturing veteran starts recruiting firm to meet industry’s talent needs

BYRON CENTER — As a veteran of the machine and cutting tools industry, Jeff Swift launched Swift Placement and Consulting this month to meet the talent needs of a niche manufacturing segment. Swift broke into the business at the age of 17 when he completed a machinist apprenticeship. He would later embark on a long