There’s no doubt in Stanley Furrow’s mind that his health problems and those of his wife, children and grandson come from exposure to contaminated water when he served in the Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
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A new local chapter of the National Korean War Veterans Association will hold its first meeting as a chartered, nonprofit at 11 a.m. on July 20 at Egg Works, 2025 Village Center Circle, in Las Vegas.
On Monday, the state attorney general’s office of military legal assistance will host a free workshop that pairs Nevada veterans with local lawyers to help sort through civil matters and assist with legal documents.
Let’s call it Operation Motherhood. The next mission for Senior Airman MiaLisa Mossay, a 25-year-old dental assistant at Nellis Air Force Base, will begin in about five months. That’s about the time she will deliver her third child as an active-duty military mom.
Months-long delays for doctors’ appointments at the North Las Vegas VA Medical Center and paperwork snarling veterans’ use of VA “choice cards” to see private physicians were among the complaints House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Jeff Miller heard Wednesday.
A storm that blew through the Bay area and spawned a deadly tornado also washed ashore a piece of history in Madeira Beach. It was found by a 10-year-old Tampa girl.
The U.S. Coast Guard said on Tuesday it had halted its search for 12 Marines who have been missing since two military helicopters collided last week off Hawaii’s Oahu island.
The next head of the Veterans Benefits Administration must ensure that veterans do not face long delays in receiving the benefits they have earned, say Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Dina Titus.
An Air Force pilot is still in the hospital following Saturday’s mishap at Nellis Air Force Base where two F-16 Fighting Falcon jets collided after landing for a Red Flag orientation flight, base officials said Thursday.
Jessica Lynch, the woman made famous for being a prisoner of war in Iraq, has been dealing with the alienation and the sense of dislocation that soldiers experience when they return from war.
Three of the four men injured in a small plane crash near Henderson Executive Airport Sunday are active-duty military — a Navy SEAL and two sailors assigned to the Naval Special Warfare Command in Coronado, Calif., the Navy said Monday.
A year after he deployed to the Middle East, Airman Jason Driscoll was reunited with his family on Friday night — much to his daughter’s surprise.
Three aging sailors attending a USS Utah convention in Las Vegas retell their stories about the day Japanese warplanes attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, to start World War II.
A U.S. Navy SEAL was killed in a parachute accident in Perris, California, near Riverside, a U.S. Navy official told CNN on Wednesday.
Nearly 130,000 pages of declassified Air Force files on UFO investigations and sightings are now available online.
