Baggage screeners at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport have discovered two World War I artillery shells in checked luggage that arrived on a flight from London.
Military
After the opening ceremony at Nellis Air Force Base, trials for amputee Mark Johnson and some of the 130 military members to make the team for the 2014 Warrior Games in Colorado got off with a splash Monday at the UNLV pool.
It was the sight of his Marine uniform jacket that he hadn’t seen in 54 years that rolled back the clock in Hal Loew’s mind.
The nation’s fleet of A-10 Thunderbolt II planes is destined for the bone yard under Pentagon plans to phase out the close air support aircraft. The Nellis Air Force squadron commander is caught in the middle, torn between switching to the F-35 while knowing that the A-10 is still the best, proven aircraft for close air support.
The soldier who killed three people at Fort Hood may have argued with another service member shortly before the attack, and investigators believe his unstable mental health contributed to the rampage, authorities said Thursday.
Red Rock Harley-Davidson will host a pancake breakfast Saturday to raise money for Honor Flight Southern Nevada, a nonprofit organization that plans to fly 55 World War II veterans to see memorials in the Washington, D.C., area near the end of April.
Mixed-martial artist Shane Kruchten was down on the mat in Las Vegas on Saturday night but not out of his fight for life — and his fallen Marine comrades were there with him, their names tattooed on his back.
Despite patient complaints about the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in North Las Vegas, Nevada’s U.S. senators on Tuesday attributed problems to “growing pains” and said they are not ready to join the criticism.
A civilian approaching a Navy destroyer at the world’s largest naval base late at night took a weapon from a sailor who was standing watch and used it to shoot and kill another sailor who was trying to help his embattled colleague, Navy officials said Tuesday.
Some volunteers at the new Veterans Affairs Medical Center in North Las Vegas are upset with the VA staff member in charge of volunteer services.
Willie McTear, of Las Vegas, is one of Charlie Company’s survivors featured in a two-hour documentary that premieres Wednesday on the National Geographic Channel. Titled, “Brothers in War,” it is narrated by Charlie Sheen and based on the book, “The Boys of ’67: Charlie Company’s War in Vietnam.”
Thousands of American flags line the streets in a tiny central Illinois village where residents are preparing to bid a final farewell to a U.S. Marine killed during a fighter jet crash in Nevada.
With their sights set on reforming the Department of Veterans Affairs, leaders of a nonprofit veterans advocacy group came to Las Vegas Thursday night to launch the first of more than a dozen policy forums for their state chapters.
A Review-Journalist photographer was detained Thursday morning by Veterans Affairs police during an investigation of a body found in the VA Medical Center parking lot.
On Tuesday, 24 mostly ethnic or minority U.S. soldiers who performed bravely under fire in three of the nation’s wars finally received the Medal of Honor that the government concluded should have been awarded a long time ago.
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