Military
Suni Erlanger said when her son was in a foxhole getting shot at he’d be cracking jokes because he wanted to put his fellow soldiers at ease. “Everybody loved him,” the Las Vegas woman said about Army Spc. Douglas J. Green, who was killed Wednesday in Afghanistan.
WEST FARGO, N.D. — Friends and acquaintances of an Air Force pilot who died in a jet crash while training in Nevada last month gathered on a North Dakota football field to remember him.
More than fifty soldiers from the Las Vegas-based Army Reserve 650th Regional Support Group, who deployed to Afghanistan a year ago, returned to McCarran International Airport on Friday night.
Women fought to be treated as the equals of men in the U.S. military, and now some of them find they’re equal to men in another way: post-traumatic stress disorder.
WASHINGTON — Congress voted last week to extend three expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act that President Barack Obama said were critically needed national security tools.
It’s too early to tell if America’s elation over Osama bin Laden’s death has boosted military recruitment, the Army’s deputy commander of recruiting said. Even if it has, the armed forces don’t need the hype to drum up new soldiers.
Soldiers and airmen are battling a different kind of stress at home in the Las Vegas Valley — the chronic stress that weighs on them from being at ground zero of the mortgage crisis.