The Obama administration, scrambling to tamp down a controversy over suspended death benefits for the families of fallen troops, announced Wednesday that a charity would pick up the costs of the payments during the government shutdown.
Military
A weekend memo from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel cleared the way for civilian workers at Nellis and Creech Air Force bases to return to work Monday, along with more than 500 Nevada National Guard technicians who will be back on the job Tuesday. Both groups were benched by the ongoing federal shutdown.
Vietnam War veteran Dave Freeman led a pack of 40 motorcyclists and a tour bus to the Cashman Center Bikefest Friday, launching the Concerned Veterans for America cross-country campaign to heighten awareness about a staggering backlog of veterans’ benefits claims.
Concerned Veterans for America will launch a nationwide bus tour from Las Vegas on Friday to heighten awareness about the Department of Veterans Affairs foot-dragging in its effort to reduce a staggering backlog of 500,000 benefits claims.
It has an eye-catching cover, nearly 500 pages and a way for readers to see photos and watch video clips of what a straight Nevada soldier experienced in combat in Afghanistan while his gay friend, a Las Vegas entertainer, worried about his safety.
WASHINGTON — Shutdown or no shutdown, about 45 Nevada veterans will travel to Washington later this week to visit the World War II Memorial.
During a funeral Monday with full military honors at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City, about 100 family members, friends and fellow veterans buried the remains of Sgt. Melvin Wolfe, who went missing in 1950.
The nonprofit Honor Flight Southern Nevada organization that will take World War II veterans to see memorials and monuments in the Washington, D.C. area on Oct. 11 will hold a pancake breakfast fundraiser Friday at Red Rock Harley-Davidson.
Pentagon officials say it’s too soon to tell how a second round of spending cuts under the sequester law could impact military families but a long-standing financial planner for families of military and government employees says the anxiety alone has cast a cloud of concern about retirement and health care.
With tears flowing from their eyes, Donna Gregory presented the Purple Heart earned by Army Pvt. John F. Eddington in World War II to his daughter Saturday.
The autograph hounds waiting expectantly in a hotel lobby weren’t drawn by actors, musicians or politicians, but by a few dozen men whose rare and distinguished achievements have earned them the nation’s highest military honor.
Ray Hamman of Las Vegas, who said he doesn’t consider himself a war hero, was among those recognized at Friday’s POW-MIA Day ceremony at Freedom Park on Nellis Air Force Base.
Rep. Dina Titus of Nevada said Thursday she will use her leverage on the House Veterans Affairs Committee to back the Obama administration’s effort in granting benefits to same-sex married veterans.
In keeping with her leadership style, 1st Lt. Michelle Bagalawis wasted no time enrolling her same-sex spouse for military benefits when the doors opened Tuesday at Nellis Air Force Base for legally married gays and lesbians to apply.
On the desk in a room in the back corner of a congresswoman’s office Tuesday sat a series of medals and a folded American flag. Johnnette Fafard held those medals, a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart and others, and she passed them to her grandchildren.
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