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.
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U.S. troops were among six NATO service members killed in a Monday motorcycle bomb attack in Bagram, Afghanistan, military officials told CNN.
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.
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.
President Barack Obama signed a sweeping defense policy bill into law on Wednesday, legislation that authorizes $607 billion in defense spending but also includes provisions that make it harder to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Four crew members on an Army helicopter died when it crashed at Fort Hood, the Texas base’s press office said.
The soldiers fired M-16s at men wearing headscarves and robes. The scene for a training exercise Wednesday was on a stretch of desert on the outskirts of the Nevada National Guard’s North Las Vegas Readiness Center .
The crowd cheered Wednesday as a pair of ladder trucks raised a U.S. garrison flag high into a cloudless sky over Carson Avenue where it crosses Fourth Street.
Americo Benetti never thought he’d live to see another Veterans Day, or Armistice Day as it was called when he served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
Chief scientist Neil Holmes doesn’t wear a red cape or display a big “S” on his chest, but it goes without saying that the feats his team must do rise to the level of Superman.
U.S. President Barack Obama plans to deploy dozens of special operations forces to northern Syria to advise opposition forces in their fight against Islamic State, a major shift and a step he has long resisted to avoid getting dragged into another war in the Middle East.
A blimp associated with NORAD’s surveillance of the East Coast that became untethered from its mooring in Maryland is now on the ground and authorities have it secured, Pennsylvania State Police told CNN.
Reversing policy on Afghanistan, President Barack Obama announced on Thursday he will slow the pace of withdrawing U.S. troops, prolonging the 14-year U.S. engagement there and effectively handing off the task of pulling out to his successor.
Nevada Army National Guard veteran Nathan Fischer is starting a new chapter in his life. Fischer has a home of his own in northwest Las Vegas and he will be able to raise his daughter there.
Like the lone candle on her cake, Laurene Quateman’s eyes sparkled when she heard the Marine Corps League men and women veterans chime in for her 98th “Happy Birthday” song.
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