Military
Opening military combat jobs to women might cause less change than meets the eye, according to Rep. Joe Heck, an Army Reserve commander as well as a Nevada congressman.
A retired Army general told a Las Vegas audience that the military needs to put more emphasis on alternative medicine techniques.
Local Army Reserve soldiers had just unpacked their duffel bags from Afghanistan in mid-December when military planners were drawing up a report for Congress that predicts the nation’s citizen-soldiers will probably have to shoulder more deployments to offset a drawdown in the regular Army.
A Henderson Gold Star mom finds comfort in knowing that Wednesday marks the first time in more than a decade of fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that Nevada’s death toll over a year’s span doesn’t include a soldier, sailor, Marine or airman from the state.
A new effort was launched in Congress on Tuesday to crack down on people who attempt to pass themselves off as wartime heroes.
Just before New Year’s Day 1945, Don Worpell packed his gear for a train ride from Camp Butner, N.C., to what his World War II papers described as a “secret destination” in Massachusetts.
The Nevada National Guard will conduct its annual training exercise in conjunction with New Year’s Eve events in Las Vegas with more than 200 troops at locations around the Strip, at McCarran International Airport and on standby around the valley.
