WASHINGTON — An officer from Nellis Air Force Base whose jet crashed in Laos 40 years ago — but whose remains were recovered only recently — was recognized in a weekend ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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The nonprofit Nevada Military Support Alliance gave a $250,000 check to the Fisher House Foundation during Saturday’s gala fund-raiser at Red Rock Resort.
Three Marine Corps officers at North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune have been relieved of their command nearly two months after a training accident that killed seven Marines in Nevada.
Rep. Joe Heck of Nevada, who couples politics with careers in medicine and the military, is in line for a bump up in the Army Reserve.
A bill that seeks to trim time off the backlog of claims facing the Department of Veterans Affairs advanced in Congress on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — Looking out at the World War II Memorial, Rudy Moraga is quiet for a moment as he composes his thoughts about his military service seven decades ago.
A North Las Vegas gun dealer is giving away $4,025 from the sale of a handgun once owned by rogue former LAPD officer Christopher Dorner.
Like the troops who serve the country, volunteers from the nonprofit Nevada Military Support Alliance serve soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen when they return from fighting the nation’s wars.
Sixty years ago they were a couple of buff, teenage Marines who shared the frontline trenches at the end of the Korean War.
With little fanfare and after much anticipation, the fourth F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter jet arrived at Nellis Air Force Base on Wednesday, more than a month after it set out from Lockheed Martin’s production plant in Fort Worth, Texas,
Former Las Vegans Alex and Helen LaVoie, who heard many noisy jets take off from Nellis Air Force Base during their 16 years here, are back in town making a little noise of their own — a bike ride across the U.S. to help fund the Wounded Warriors Project.
WASHINGTON — Nellis Air Force Base may be rocked by the sequester, but planning continues for upgrades to base housing and projects to support the arriving F-35 fighter jets.
WASHINGTON — Senior Army officials warned Tuesday they may have to cut more than 100,000 additional soldiers over the next decade unless automatic spending reductions forcing the military services to slash their budgets are stopped.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the top Democrat in the Senate, said Tuesday he’ll press ahead with new legislation to repeal automatic spending cuts that are now beginning to sting.
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