Las Vegas won’t be Iraq or Afghanistan for Kevin Leduc, but it will give the Army veteran the opportunity to continue to serve his country.
Military
A military judge and counsel for the defense and government succeeded in filling a jury panel Friday in a sex abuse and assault court-martial of a Nellis Air Force Base major.
The court-martial of a Nellis Air Force Base major accused of sex abuse and assault of an enlisted man remained stalled Thursday while a military judge waited for the base convening authority to find more candidates for a jury panel.
The body of Army Sgt. 1st Class Sean Wayne Wells, 35, arrived at McCarran International Airport Wednesday afternoon, en route to his final resting place in the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City. Wells was killed in his home in Fayetteville, N.C. on Oct. 7.
The military judge presiding in the sexual abuse and assault court-martial of a Nellis Air Force Base major excused all but four of the 11 officers who were detailed to serve as court members, or jurors, leaving the panel one shy of a quorum to proceed with the trial Wednesday.
Maj. Charles L. Cox Jr. pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual assault and abuse of an enlisted man in a court-martial proceeding Tuesday at Nellis Air Force Base.
The local nonprofit Catholic War Veterans will hold its gala dinner Friday to raise money to help needy veterans and their families with food, rent, utilities, transportation and clothing.
Nellis Air Force Base officers will proceed Tuesday with prosecuting and defending one of their own for alleged sex abuse.
Las Vegas was reeling from the great recession in the wake of the 2007 mortgage crisis, yet life was sweet at a well-financed warfare research center at Nellis Air Force Base.
The barricades were slipped open at the World War II Memorial on Saturday for 35 Southern Nevada veterans getting the chance to tour the monument to their service seven decades ago.
The Air Force said Friday it fired the two-star general in charge of its nuclear missiles in response to an investigation into alleged personal misbehavior. It was the second sacking this week of a senior commander of nuclear forces.
World War II veteran Ed Turken doesn’t care if he’ll be violating any laws when he crosses the National Park Service barricade Saturday to visit the Washington, D.C., memorial that was built to honor his generation of veterans.
The government dropped the ball on paying travel expenses to a Las Vegas woman to see her brother’s remains returned home after he was killed in Afghanistan.
With no sign of the government shutdown ending, the budget stalemate in Congress has caused the Department of Veterans Affairs to take “one step forward and two steps back” in its effort to reduce a backlog of disability claims, Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., said Wednesday.
The deputy commander of U.S. nuclear forces, Vice Adm. Tim Giardina, was notified Wednesday that he has been relieved of duty amid a military investigation of allegations that he used counterfeit chips at an Iowa casino, the Navy said.
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