The Department of Veterans Affairs launched a “standardized forms” requirement this week for veterans seeking disability benefits and filing appeals, but the change has drawn criticism from the Disabled American Veterans.
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A dozen dignitaries including three members of Nevada’s congressional delegation pitched the first shovelfuls of dirt Friday to launch construction of the state’s first Fisher House where families of wounded warriors can stay while their loved ones recover at the North Las Vegas VA Medical Center.
Overcast skies couldn’t keep the sun from shining on Tuesday’s groundbreaking event to launch construction of a 15-megawatt solar project at Nellis Air Force Base.
After 10 years of pleas and false hope that the Clark County School District would replace the aging Heard Elementary School with a new school in a quieter part of Nellis Air Force Base, base officials want to sever ties with the school district and have a new charter school built, joining eight other Air Force bases around the country that have charter schools.
About 120 veterans attended Wednesday’s town hall discussion at the North Las Vegas VA Medical Center with local VA officials. Their concerns, much like those raised in previous town halls, focused on delays in accessing health care services and in resolving disability claims.
The Department of Veterans Affairs Southern Nevada Healthcare System will hold a town hall meeting to discuss benefits issues from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at North Las Vegas VA Medical Center auditorium.
They’re big. They’re ugly. And they fly. No, they’re not mosquitoes from Alaska. They’re B-52 Stratofortress bombers from North Dakota. And they’re old too. Older than the pilots who fly them.
Francis Spivey, 43, served in the U.S. Air Force from August 1990 to July 2014, when he retired as a master sergeant. He donned his uniform one last time Feb. 25, and went to the open stairwell of his apartment building armed with an AR 15.
Metro police arrested Father Louis Vitale and 32 others early Friday for trespassing at Creech Air Force Base where 140 peace activists had gathered to protest U.S. drone operations in the Middle East and Afghanistan that are controlled remotely at the base, 45 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Venerable B-52 bombers and T-38 Talon trainer jets thundered through cloudy, gray skies over Nellis Air Force Base on Tuesday for this year’s second Red Flag air combat exercise.