Last week, a young man was arrested after he bolted from the Marine Corp Recruit Depot and ran across the tarmac at Lindberg Field.
The San Diego Harbor Police told reporters the young recruit was not the first to run from MCRD to "get away from boot camp." It seems not everyone is cut out to be a U.S. Marine.
Now, young men and women considering whether they have ...
Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a low public profile in controversies over the second Gulf War against Iraq, died Thursday. He was 78.
Schwarzkopf died in Tampa, Fla., where he had lived in retirement, according to a U.S. official, who was not ...
Autopsies of service members killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars show 1 in 12 had coronary atherosclerosis, or a hardening of the arteries. That's according to a study published in today's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Researchers with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences looked at the autopsy records of more than 3,800 troops who'd been deployed to either ...
Dogs who serve in the United States military would be ensured a good home and proper care in retirement under a measure that cleared Congress last week, and now awaits the signature of President Barack Obama.
The measure was attached as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013. It would allow military working dogs who are not able to be adopted in retirement to be ...
Marine veteran Jon Hammar, who has been held in a Mexican jail for more than four months on a gun charge, will be released today.
The Marine's mother, Olivia Hammar, confirmed the impending release to Fox News Radio:
Olivia Hammar said the judge hearing Hammar's case issued a ruling in his favor and that her son is to be released at a time on Friday yet to be ...
The Department of Defense has created a brain bank to study Traumatic Brain Injury and other wounds suffered by service members.
USA Today reports the Department of Defense has teamed up with the National Institutes of Health to develop the Center for the Study of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. The brain bank is one part of the new $70 million center.
A recent study by Boston University ...
The hardest thing Staff Sgt. Monica Paz ever had to do as a Marine was serve as drill instructor at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island. So when she found out she had a spinal cord injury, Paz believed she was ready for the challenge.
Paz now works as the accounting division chief and squadron support division chief for Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), in ...
A parade float filled with wounded veterans that was struck by a freight train had crossed onto the railroad tracks after warning signals were going off, investigators said Saturday.
Four veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan were killed and 16 more people were injured when the train crashed into the flatbed truck in West Texas.
It was the second of two floats carrying veterans in Thursday's parade in Midland. The ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces is hearing oral arguments today in the case of ex-Camp Pendleton Marine Lawrence Hutchins III, who was convicted of murdering a man in Hamdaniya, Iraq in 2006.
At issue is whether Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus influenced the case illegally with statements he made in the public venue. The court will also consider whether the Naval Criminal Investigative Service ...
An ex-Marine from Hemet who smuggled a machine gun into the country from Iraq, where he served in combat, was handed a two-year federal prison sentence Thursday.
Joel Cleve Miller, 40, was convicted in June of illegally possessing an automatic weapon — an AK-47 that he told friends had once been used by Saddam Hussein’s royal guard.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office had sought a minimum five-year sentence for ...
A military wife whose husband suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder decided to bring awareness to the cause in an unusual way - by baring her body and writing her feelings about PTSD on her own skin for everyone to see:
"Broken by battle, wounded by war, my love is forever to you this I swore. I will quiet your silent screams, help heal your shattered soul until once again, my love ...
A retired military working dog named Gabe, and his owner Sgt. 1st Class Charles Shuck, nabbed top honors this weekend at the 2012 American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards.
Gabe is a rescue dog who lived in a Texas animal shelter before being adopted and trained by the military. As Gabe writes on his Facebook page:
I started my duty in 2006 when I deployed to Iraq. I was fortunate ...
Think about how happy your dog is when you come home from work. And you've only been gone a day. Now, multiply that times a thousand (roughly), and you'll be able to appreciate how happy a dog named Little Anne was to greet her soldier dad after months and months apart.
This video was first posted on WelcomeHomeBlog.com last spring, but I just caught wind of it ...
A few dozen military veterans from across the country took advantage of the last day of summer in San Diego. They went kayaking on Mission Bay using specially adapted vessels for people with disabilities.
Most of the veterans are from the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They've come to San Diego for the annual one week Summer Sports clinic put on by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Their ...
Earlier today I wrote about a new VA policy that refuses coverage for PTSD service dogs. The reality is, most veterans get their service dogs through non-profits and donations. But the problem with not getting the VA to cover the ongoing costs of maintaining PTSD service dogs is brutally illustrated in a story covered by 9News in Colorado.
Sgt. Karl Hofle spent twenty years in the military, and was discharged ...
