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Creech, other drone bases get help to handle growth

The Air Force is launching a full-court press to meet increased demand from combat commanders for more drone missions such as those controlled from Creech Air Force Base to fight the nation’s global war on terrorism.

 
All six U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan attack identified

A female officer in the Air Force, who was one of the first openly gay service members to get married, was identified on Tuesday as being among six U.S. troops killed by a suicide bomber near Bagram air base in Afghanistan.

 
US troops killed by suicide bomb in Afghanistan

U.S. troops were among six NATO service members killed in a Monday motorcycle bomb attack in Bagram, Afghanistan, military officials told CNN.

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Bergdahl could face life sentence in court-martial over desertion

U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who walked away from his post in Afghanistan and became a Taliban prisoner for five years, will face court-martial with a potential life sentence, the Army said on Monday.

Thunderbirds’ big air show coming back to Nellis next year

The Thunderbirds air demonstration team will perform their neck-craning loops and breathtaking rolls in red-white-and-blue F-16 jets over Nellis Air Force Base in November after last year’s public show at their home base was off the schedule.

US Army to change dog tags for first time in 40 years

For the first time in 40 years, the U.S. Army is making changes to a century-old piece of hardware, dog tags, the identification implements that hang around each soldier’s neck.

Las Vegas has homeless veterans covered

As federal and local officials prepared to celebrate the Las Vegas valley having enough resources to house every homeless veteran, a woman struggled to find permanent housing for her brother — a Vietnam War veteran — on Tuesday.

Grand jury indicts three in Nellis AFB ammunition theft

An airman and two other people were indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday in the alleged theft and illegal sale of military ammunition and equipment from Nellis Air Force Base.

 
Las Vegas Navy veterans recall horrific day in 1941

Las Vegas resident Leonard O. Nielsen was assigned to the USS Arizona but was in sick bay on the USS Solace hospital ship when Japanese warplanes sank the Arizona and others on Battleship Row during the Pearl Harbor attack 74 years ago on Dec. 7, 1941.

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