Backed by the Las Vegas skyline with sunlight glistening off their canopies, fighter jet after fighter jet took off Wednesday from Nellis Air Force Base like there was no tomorrow.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The U.S. Forest Service will award long-delayed contracts to add several large, jet-powered air tankers to the nation’s fleet of firefighting planes in about two months, U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said Friday.
The Pentagon on Friday grounded its fleet of F-35 fighter jets after discovering a cracked engine blade in one plane.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. Chairman Gary Loveman kicked off the company’s new hiring initiative Wednesday by introducing six employees ranging from senior level executives to frontline casino workers.
More than 1,460 Air Force civilian workers in Nevada will be getting furlough notices with the “vast majority” of 800,000 civilian workers in the Defense Department if President Barack Obama and Congress don’t agree on a deficit-reduction plan, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — They fight the war from computer consoles and video screens.
It’s called the Green Zone Initiative because during the Iraq War the Green Zone in Baghdad was designed as a safe place for soldiers to be inside the wire.
She was the first woman graduate from the U.S. Military Academy to achieve the rank of brigadier general, and she helped design the framework for lifting the ban on women in combat.
Spc. Morissa Baker and her band of sisters is a force the enemy would find hard to contend with. The 24-year-old Nevada Army National Guard soldier can do 53 pushups or 60 situps in two minutes, and she can run two miles in 17½ minutes.
With fiscal cliff budget cuts looming a few weeks away, Air Force leaders said Thursday they will probably cancel upcoming Red Flag air combat training exercises at Nellis Air Force Base and ground the Thunderbirds demonstration team if Congress and the White House don’t agree on a solution to the nation’s $16 trillion debt.
A training prop with black electrical tape at both ends triggered Tuesday’s emergency response at a high-security area of the Nevada National Security Site near a complex designed for handling nuclear devices, site officials said Wednesday.
Opening military combat jobs to women might cause less change than meets the eye, according to Rep. Joe Heck, an Army Reserve commander as well as a Nevada congressman.