USO volunteer Jack Ross is happy with USO’s effort to assist armed forces personnel at McCarran International Airport and other lounges and clubs around the world, but he is disappointed that the nonprofit’s top administrator makes more in his salary package than the base pay for President Barack Obama.
Navy veteran Sandi Niccum, a longtime advocate for veterans in Las Vegas, died Nov. 15 at age 78.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal will host a “Salute U.S. Veterans” celebration and job fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Texas Station in North Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas Rotary Club is looking for people to invite airmen from Nellis and Creech Air Force bases into their homes to share their Thanksgiving Day meals.
The Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center will offer drive-up flu shots Saturday for veterans who are enrolled in the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System and have a VA identification card.
Like the red-white-and-blue jet their father flew, the one perched on a pedestal outside the Thunderbirds hangar at Nellis Air Force Base made their hearts soar Friday when the team re-dedicated the 600-pound model in honor of their dad, Capt. Gene Devlin.
As the American Legion Post 8 battleship float rolled down Fourth Street Monday near the front of the annual Las Vegas Veterans Day parade, the two words spoken most often from tens of thousands of flag-waving spectators were “thank you.”
Sixty years later after the truce in Korea, Army veteran William “Bill” Miller recalls the “war” that cost the lives of friends around Pork Chop Hill.
The largest Veterans Day parade west of the Mississippi River will roll up Fourth Street on Monday, showcasing a new theme as well as a new sponsor.
After surviving two crashes, Don Harten believes God had a plan for him but dying in the Vietnam War wasn’t part of it.
