“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.
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When the state of Nevada set out to demonstrate its civil uses for drones as one of the six FAA-approved test beds for merging the budding industry into the national airspace, it chose a secure swath of high desert where the nation’s nuclear bombs were tested during the Cold War.
Twenty-one protesters were arrested Friday at the Nevada National Security Site, according to a release from the Nevada Desert Experience.
It was clear at a Nellis Air Force Base change-of-command ceremony Tuesday that deadly terrorist attacks like the one in Brussels earlier in the day are constantly on the minds of Air Force leaders as they prepare for a new era of warfare.
U.S. Vets – Las Vegas with a host of co-sponsors will hold its 13th annual veterans stand-down Wednesday and Thursday to help homeless veterans combat life on the streets.
The long-sought Las Vegas Veterans Memorial moved closer to completion Saturday as veterans and officials involved in support of its construction gathered Saturday at the Sawyer Building to prepare the site for the memorial’s May 27 dedication, seven years after it was envisioned.
Gov. Brian Sandoval and Charles Sehe, who served on the USS Nevada from before Pearl Harbor through World War II, celebrated the centennial of the commissioning of the famed battleship at a ceremony Friday.
He was famous, but for the most part, Donald E. Williams was a modest, down-to-Earth Navy pilot except when he was orbiting the planet in a space shuttle.
Flying in Eurofighter Typhoons and F-16 jets, pilots from the Italian and Turkish air forces joined their U.S. partners in a Red Flag air combat training exercise Tuesday, roaring into partially cloudy skies north of Nellis Air Force Base.
The asphalt runway stretches for a mile on Yucca Flat, deep in the Nevada National Security Site about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas.