Fort Bragg corporal is Army's Engineer Soldier of the Year
In the darkest moment of his Army career so far, Cpl. Francis Meighan stood on a remote mountainside and wondered if what he was doing was worth it.Meighan, then a private first class and days into the mountain phase of U.S. Army Ranger School, was carrying more than 80 pounds of gear in the middle of the night, and navigating a rock face so steep that he had to slide down it.Moments earlier, a fellow soldier had tumbled off a cliff and was seriously injured. And Meighan, […]
