The wreckage of a U.S. Marine helicopter that went missing with six U.S. Marines and two Nepali service members on board has been found, U.S. Defense officials confirmed Friday.
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The U.S. House approved an amendment Thursday that seeks to ensure Air Force activities in central Nevada are not hampered by a 1,100-square-mile federally protected national monument area being weighed by the Obama administration.
What has 10 engines, can hover like a helicopter and fly like a plane? Answer: NASA’S latest drone prototype, GL-10.
The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will celebrate Armed Forces Day by paying tribute to local armed services members and veterans on Saturday.
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.
A Kentucky U.S. army officer who police believe fatally shot his 11-year-old daughter before killing himself had been involved in a child support dispute with his ex-wife.
Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a U.S. Army veteran in the parking lot of a Veterans Affairs facility in Phoenix as an apparent suicide, police said on 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.
Among the accomplishments of Nevada’s late-Sen. Howard Cannon, from his 33-year political career to his Air Force Reserve service as a major general, his biggest achievement arguably was his role in delivering paratroopers in the lead plane during the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.
Nellis and Creech Air Force bases have bumped up their force protection levels to Bravo, third-highest on the five-tiered scale, as U.S. military installations increased security measures in response to reports of a perceived domestic threat by Islamic militants.
Most remember muted celebration amid concern that VE Day was a turning point, but not the end of the global war.
There were no injuries and the jet fighter landed without incident at Albuquerque International Sunport.
The F-35 is the Air Force’s newest fighter plane, and the service says it needs some of its most experienced aviators in the cockpit of the jet.
The soldiers from the 72nd Military Police and the 137th Military Police companies will be at the airport through Monday. Both units are based in North Las Vegas.
Janna Hoehn is close to notching another state to her photo collage list for the “Faces Never Forgotten” project. She needs some help, however, to find the last 19 photographs of Nevada’s fallen military personnel from the Vietnam War.