Memorial Day, a federal holiday on the last Monday of May, is a holiday for remembering the war dead. For many, the holiday also signifies the beginning of summer, where millions of people in the nation travel, go shopping and barbecue.
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Rick Mills and Michael Rosaia haven’t just honored their grandfather’s Marine Corps service by remembering him. On the 100th anniversary of the bravery that won him a Medal of Honor, they went to China to stand in his footsteps.
Southern Nevada’s military honor guards can be seen at a variety of events around town. But their most somber — and, members say, most fulfilling — duty lies in offering final goodbyes to veterans.
More than 35 organizations joined forces Saturday morning to place flags at grave sites at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City for Memorial Day weekend.
Three aging sailors attending a USS Utah convention in Las Vegas retell their stories about the day Japanese warplanes attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, to start World War II.
The Obama administration on Monday moved to prohibit federal agencies from providing local cops with certain kinds of military equipment such as grenade launchers, high-caliber weapons and bayonets, in the wake of controversy over a “militarized” police response to unrest last summer in Ferguson, Missouri.
Creech Air Force Base officials on Monday said their suggestions for the new “Good Kill” movie, about a pilot flying drones from an unnamed base, fell on deaf ears.
He died May 13 in Boulder City at 93. On Dec. 7, 1941, he scrambled to get the wounded into lifeboats before the USS Arizona sank.
The House on Monday approved a bill that would make it easier for low-income disabled veterans to qualify for government housing assistance.
One Marine died Sunday when an MV-22 Osprey experienced a “hard landing mishap” at Bellows Air Force Station in Hawaii.
Shadow Ridge High School senior Joshua Han — a scholar, athlete and leader — has earned a $45,000 Army scholarship to UNLV to join the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.
“Good Kill,” a movie based on airmen who fly the deadly remotely-operated drones from Creech Air Force Base that is debuting in the U.S. this week, renews awareness of Nevada’s role in the secret drone program and the toll it takes on the pilots.
The wreckage of a U.S. Marine helicopter that went missing with six U.S. Marines and two Nepali service members on board has been found, U.S. Defense officials confirmed Friday.
The U.S. House approved an amendment Thursday that seeks to ensure Air Force activities in central Nevada are not hampered by a 1,100-square-mile federally protected national monument area being weighed by the Obama administration.
What has 10 engines, can hover like a helicopter and fly like a plane? Answer: NASA’S latest drone prototype, GL-10.