A flatbed tractor-trailer rig with about a dozen larger-than-life statues of soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen from all the nation’s wars made for an impromptu veterans parade as it hauled the centerpiece items to their final destination at the Las Vegas Veterans Memorial site outside the Sawyer Building.
MGM Resorts International honored more than 70 wounded warriors on Friday. Veterans who suffered disabilities from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were center stage as hundreds of employees lined a hallway at The Mirage to salute their arrival for a weekend of “high roller” treatment.
Janna Hoehn only needs eight more photos of Nevada’s fallen Vietnam War servicemen to add the Silver State to her list of states completed for a Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund project “Faces Never Forgotten.”
Upgraded security for one of the most sensitive laboratories in the federal government’s nuclear weapons complex quadrupled in cost and fell years behind schedule before the Nevada project was put on hold to await a restart, according to an audit made public Wednesday.
Eight months after Nevada lawmakers said they were told groundbreaking was imminent, the Department of Veterans Affairs is being pressed to explain continuing delays in building a veterans health clinic in Pahrump.
Veterans have come forward with complaints about tactics employed by the Veterans Benefits Administration, which demands that veterans prove their injuries were service-related but can deny claims without proving anything.
Thirty members of the 72nd Military Police Company are beginning a nine-month journey that will take them to a New Jersey military base for training before tackling a crucial mission in Afghanistan.
In 35 years since he was an Army private until when he retires July 30 as a full-bird colonel and Nevada’s highest ranking black Army National Guard officer, Col. James Walker Jr. can attest to changes in the military and its minority landscape. But when it comes to being a soldier, the virtue of being colorblind to someone’s skin has endured unchanged.
Rep. Joe Heck of Nevada and other Iraq veterans on Capitol Hill watch almost helplessly as Islamic militants push through the country that Americans fought to stabilize following the U.S. invasion in 2003.
Artist Michael Barrett will place 6,799 pennies in the center of Rotunda Gallery at the Clark County Government Center during a 320-hour performance to honor the 6,799 men and women who died in Operation Enduring Freedom.
