A generous gesture by Doris Postelle couldn’t have come at a better time for Nellis Air Force Base Maj. Paul Hamel.
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Roads around Nellis Air Force Base are expected to reopen soon after police took into custody a man who had barricaded himself in a hospital parking lot.
Nevada National Guard soldier Adam Fenner and Lance Taubold will read an excerpt from their novel “On Two Fronts” and host a discussion with guests during a free public event at 1 p.m. Saturday at The Center, 401 S. Maryland Parkway.
Army veteran John Masson swung onto his new bike from his wheelchair, and a support team began checking tires, tightening screws and adjusting the pedal bar.
The Thunderbirds team at Nellis Air Force Base is at the top of the world when it comes to showcasing the Air Force’s flying feats, so it makes sense that the team’s line chief is from North Pole, Alaska.
The family of a Navy SEAL from Las Vegas who was killed in a 2008 training accident at a Mississippi shooting facility is continuing a wrongful death lawsuit against the facility’s owners after the Mississippi Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s ruling this month.
Rep. Dina Titus, a member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, sent Gov. Brian Sandoval a letter Thursday urging him to launch an investigation into reports of patient mistreatment at the Nevada State Veterans Home in Boulder City.
An awestruck Army veteran still limping from wounds he suffered in Afghanistan four years ago doesn’t consider himself a hero although that’s what everybody called him Thursday when he accepted the keys to his new home in southwest Las Vegas.
The Nellis Air Force Base major who pleaded guilty Tuesday to assault of an enlisted man and was ordered to forfeit $3,678 in pay epitomizes the military’s “antiquated, medieval justice system,” said a former Navy helicopter pilot who was a victim of the Tailhook scandal in Las Vegas.
An explosion that killed seven Camp Lejeune Marines during a nighttime training exercise in Northern Nevada was the result of human error and insufficient training, according to the results of a military investigation.
A military judge on Tuesday ordered a Nellis Air Force Base major to forfeit $3,678 in pay and allowances for one month after he pleaded guilty to two of three charges in what began as a sex abuse court-martial involving an enlisted man.
Navy veteran Joseph E. Honish, one of the last local survivors of the Dec. 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack that launched the United States into World War II, died Jan. 16 after complications from heart failure. He will be remembered Thursday at a funeral Mass.
The Army’s first female brigadier general, during a visit to Las Vegas to promote her book, stressed the need for accountability, effective leadership to handle the nation’s armed forces as cutbacks loom.
United States flags are supposed to be flown with pride in honor of the nation, its people, its veterans and those serving in the armed forces and government agencies. That is why members of a Las Vegas Veterans of Foreign Wars post want to know who dumped about a dozen large U.S. flags in late November on a paved lot. Post members want to make the public aware that veterans groups can retire flags properly.
A military spokesman says one member of an elite Army helicopter unit is dead and two crew members suffered injuries when their aircraft slammed into the ground while trying to land at a Savannah, Ga., airfield.