Military
Raptor attack jets thunder through an azure sky as they climb over Pete Hawk’s North Las Vegas apartment. The deafening roar is a constant reminder of the Iraq War for the Air Force veteran, and sometimes interrupts the work he is doing.
To the cheers and tears of flag-waving families and friends, about 50 soldiers from a Las Vegas Valley National Guard unit returned home safely Saturday after a yearlong deployment in Afghanistan.
Retired Army Col. Bill Olds knows how Col. Moammar Gadhafi operates. After all, the Libyan tyrant put a $500,000 bounty on his head after Olds led Egyptian forces in the capture of Libyan hijackers in 1985.
Army Spc. Brian Tabada of Las Vegas was killed Sunday in Afghanistan after insurgents ambushed his patrol. Tabada, 21, was a fire-support specialist trained in calling in aircraft and artillery to quell attacks on NATO troops, according to the 101st Airborne Division in Fort Campbell, Ky.
Hundreds of soldiers in the 422nd Expeditionary Signal Battalion attended a ceremony Thursday at Mandalay Bay where Gov. Brian Sandoval and U.S. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev. paid tribute to the troops about to embark on a yearlong tour of duty to Afghanistan. It will be the second-largest Army National Guard deployment in the state’s history.
RENO — A former national guardsman received a warm homecoming in Reno after being jailed for about two months in the United Arab Emirates.
HAWTHORNE — A soldier who had both legs amputated after a June mortar attack in Afghanistan received a rousing welcome from friends and family Saturday in his hometown of Hawthorne.
Nicholas Moody, of Reno, has spent seven weeks in an Abu Dhabi prison after airport officials found a sling, a cleaning kit, a pistol grip, a buttstock, a front grip and a wrench in his bags.
