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Event offers Nevada veterans free legal help

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.

 
GOP blocks provision to require women to register for military draft

The Republican-led House Rules Committee pulled a legislative sleight of hand and stripped a provision from the annual defense policy bill that would have required women between the ages of 18 and 25 to sign up for a military draft.

Cadets make over home of mother whose soldier son died in Iraq

With Memorial Day approaching, Chere’ Pedersen of Blue Star Mothers of Henderson and Boulder City thought a makeover of the Gold Star mother Marina Vance’s home was long overdue. Vance’s son “Nacho” — Spc. Ignacio Ramirez — was killed a decade ago while serving in Iraq.

Detachment from Nevada Army National Guard returns from Afghanistan

A detachment from the Nevada Army National Guard’s most-deployed unit, the 72nd Military Police Company, has returned, this time from Afghanistan, where it maintained security in a dangerous part of Kabul for U.S. military leaders and its coalition partners.

Aging U.S. Filipino veterans can finally get some family help

A program to help Filipino World War II veterans in the United States by allowing family members into the country to support and care for them was implemented over the weekend by the Obama administration.

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Nellis F-16C collision blamed on pilot errors

Errors by pilots caused two F-16C Fighting Falcon jets to collide on a runway at Nellis Air Force Base after landing for a Red Flag air combat exercise orientation flight in August, Air Combat Command officials said Monday.

 
US serviceman killed by Islamic State fighters in Iraq identified

The Navy SEAL killed in Iraq on Tuesday was identified as Charlie Keating IV, a former Phoenix high school star distance runner and the grandson of the late Arizona financier involved in the 1980s savings and loan scandal.

WWII actions earn French Legion of Honor medal for North Las Vegas man

Ninety-eight-year-old Elmer J. Hess, of North Las Vegas, received France’s Legion of Honor medal Wednesday night during a ceremony in Las Vegas. Hess, a World War II Army tech sergeant from Monmouth, Illinois, was in the third wave to invade France’s Nazi-occupied Normandy coast at Utah Beach.

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