More than 65 years ago, a 1-kiloton bomb ushered Las Vegas and Nevada into the atomic age.
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Adm. John Richardson also ordered an investigation into the performance of the Navy’s justice system.
LOS ANGELES — The pilot of a U.S. Navy jet fighter that crashed in Death Valley National Park was killed, the military said Thursday.
There’s no word yet on what happened to the pilot of the F/A-18 Super Hornet, which went down during a training mission Wednesday morning.
Nellis Air Force Base once again will open its gates and display its hardware and abilities to the public at the Aviation Nation 2019 Air Space Expo.
Currently, women represent about 22% of cadets at West Point, 27% of Naval Academy students and around 22% of Air Force Academy cadets.
Neil Armstrong’s astronaut training in Nevada went much more smoothly than his disastrous stops here in 1962, which ended with a stuck fighter jet and a hard landing.
The victim of a fatal rollover crash northwest of Las Vegas Wednesday has been identified as a 23-year-old Nellis Air Force airman, officials said.
It was unclear Thursday night what lead to an airman being shot in the leg at Nellis Air Force Base, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
Four Nellis Air Force airmen were seriously injured and one died after a rollover crash early Wednesday on U.S. Highway 95 near Lee Canyon Road.
The Air Force said the fishermen were hurt when their boat’s crane collapsed 1,300 miles southwest of San Diego.
The Republican-led Senate is expected to attempt to get Esper confirmed as early as Thursday.
“Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” the jokey Facebook event created by pranksters, has more than 1.2 million people pledging to “see them aliens.”
The lack of stable leadership atop the Pentagon has raised questions in Congress at a time of heightened tensions with Iran.
Military veterans die of suicide at a far higher rate than their civilian counterparts, but Las Vegas is one of eight cities at the forefront of an effort to change that.