Category: Veterans

Authorities find veteran’s decomposed body, charge 3 family members with collecting his benefits (FOX)- Police say three family members of a Wainwright home spent the social security payments of a veteran whose body was found badly decomposed in their living room. Deputies said they made the gruesome discovery while they were following up on a welfare […]

A memorial in Venice, Calif., for Vietnam troops who went missing in action has been vandalized with graffiti for the second time in the past year, sparking a new round of anger. (FOX)- The memorial was vandalized on Memorial Day weekend of 2016. In January, Angel Castro, 24, was sentenced to four years in state prison […]

A colonel was sentenced Friday to 12 months in prison in South Carolina — and dismissed from the U.S. Air Force — after he pleaded guilty in a child pornography scandal. Personally, I feel that offenders like the Colonel here are a sickness. A blight on society. The fact that these people exist sickens me to […]

An 89-year-old man whose body was discovered in a large suitcase on a rural Arkansas farm was a World War II veteran from New York, police say. (FOX)- Robert Brooks died of natural causes at his home about a month before his body was discovered in a Prairie County field on March 5, Lt. David […]

Reports of sexual assaults increased at two of the three military academies last year and an anonymous survey suggests sexual misconduct rose across the board at the schools, The Associated Press has learned. (FOX)- The new data underscore the challenge in stemming bad behavior by young people at the military college campuses, despite a slew […]

A 92-year old WWII veteran and cancer survivor is reportedly being evicted from his California apartment so the property owner can conduct renovations. (FOX)- According to The Mercury News, Paul Mayer has lived in the same San Jose apartment for 44 years but was told he has until April 4 to vacate the place he […]

Three U.S. airmen were killed after a U-28 single-engine turboprop aircraft crashed during a training flight in New Mexico, Air Force officials announced Wednesday. (FOX)- The airmen were assigned to the 318th Special Operations Squadron, an operational flying squadron part the 27th Special Operations Wing, Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. The crash occurred one […]

US special forces – including SEAL Team 6, which killed Osama bin Laden – will take part in a large war drill in South Korea as part of a plan to “decapitate” the leadership in Pyongyang, according to a report. (FOX)- The SEAL team will join the annual Foal Eagle and Key Resolve exercises between […]

A veteran who has a traumatic brain injury has not been seen or heard from since Saturday night, the Broomfield Police Department said. (FOX)- Cory Hixson, 33, was last seen near West Midway Boulevard and Via Varra Drive about 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Police said Hixson, who is a Purple Heart recipient, suffers from memory loss, […]

Some retired Marines in California want the Navy to name a warship for the photographer behind the iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising photo. (FOX)- Joe Rosenthal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photo shows Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi on the Japanese island on Feb. 23, 1945. The picture became the model for the Iwo Jima Memorial near Arlington […]