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Nevada Guard funeral team cut in half under new budget

Among federal funding cutbacks that affect the state’s military is one that lops the Nevada Army National Guard’s funeral team in half — from eight full-time soldiers to four — during the fiscal year that begins Saturday.

UNLV speakers’ concern is drone warfare fuels hatred

“I’m up here for those kids that I helped kill.” That’s what Cian Westmoreland, former Air Force drone program communications technician, said his motivation was for speaking Wednesday night at a UNLV symposium on drone warfare.

Las Vegas immigrants recall their last days in South Vietnam

Dung Luu, who now lives in Las Vegas, will never forget what happened after North Vietnamese tanks rolled into Saigon 40 years ago on April 30, 1975, and put the former South Vietnamese capital under communist control.