After a rip-roaring Red Flag air combat exercise at Nellis Air Force Base last week, big, black, bat-shaped B-2 Spirit jets returned to Missouri, taking with them the lessons learned from flying mock war sorties with a mix of 100 U.S. and foreign warplanes.
It was a joyous homecoming here Sunday when 13 members of the Nevada Army National Guard C Company returned to family, friends and comrades after a 10-month deployment in Afghanistan.
They call it the holy grail of ready-to-eat meals for soldiers: a pizza that can stay on the shelf for as long as three years and still remain good to eat.
Teams of airmen from the engineers’ unit at Nellis Air Force Base, the 820th Red Horse Squadron, competed Thursday in the Warrior Challenge.
His family says a man who had recently been living in Las Vegas was one of two civilian contractors killed Monday by a suicide car bomb in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Review-Journal photographer John Locher documents the experience of refueling military aircraft in flight over the Nevada Test and Training Range.
Calvin T. Pascetta, a retired Navy gunship sailor from North Las Vegas who just celebrated his 90th birthday, is one of those few who can claim he dodged bullets or artillery fire in three wars.
The Veterans Affairs regional benefits office in Reno was so overwhelmed with disability claims last year that it sent half of them to out-of-state VA offices for decisions, according to a letter Rep. Dina Titus released Thursday from a top VA official.
More than 3,200 personnel and nearly 160 aircraft, pilots from the Australian Air Force, the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force and U.S. forces participated in one of the biggest Red Flag exercises staged at Nellis Air Force Base.
The magic moment happened for 30 airmen Wednesday evening at Nellis Air Force Base. After more than four months of absence and a couple hours of waiting, they returned to the arms of their loved ones following a rescue helicopter mission in the Horn of Africa.
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Floyd L. Edsall, the namesake of the National Guard readiness center that was built in North Las Vegas in 1997, died Jan. 29 in Sparks. He was 92.
Royal Air Force Tornado fighter jets joined the chorus of man-made thunder Tuesday as military aircraft from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom stormed off into a wintry sky toward the Nevada Test and Training Range to kick off another day of Red Flag exercises.
Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said Thursday the number of nuclear force officers implicated in a proficiency test cheating scandal has grown to 92 out of a force of 500.
Gov. Brian Sandoval is defending his decision to allow the use of a Nevada Air National Guard aircraft to fly a critically ill woman to an Oregon hospital for life-saving treatment.
American Legion Post 8 will hold a memorial service Feb. 8 at 2 p.m. for former post commander and Las Vegas police crime scene investigator Jerry Autrey.
