Новости за 24.05.2016

Julie Jones’ daughter, Barbie Goodman, served in the U.S. Army as a combat medic from 2007 to 2015. She sustained a traumatic brain injury while serving in Kuwait. Goodman died from her injury in 2015.

President Barack Obama on Monday lifted a half-century-old embargo on selling arms to Vietnam, a move that drew sharp criticism from some Valley military veterans. “It stinks,” said Michael Johns, of Sunbury resident who served two tours in Vietnam in the Army.

When Tom Robillard retired from the Air Force 12 years ago after 30 years of service, he had to decide where to put down roots. But at 58, like most military retirees, he still needed to work. A big factor in where he would embark on his second career was which state wouldn’t tax his pension.

More than 70 years after he went missing in action, Army Pvt. John P. Sersha is finally coming home. And, fittingly, the World War II veteran will be buried Memorial Day weekend on the Iron Range where he was raised.

It took 98 years, but Michael Haddad, a sailor who died while training for World War I, finally has a grave marker at St. Peter’s Cemetery.

A consortium that includes the Texas A&M University System and the University of Texas System announced Tuesday that it will compete for the contract to operate one of the nation’s nuclear weapons labs.

A 22-year-old Fort Hood man has been arrested in Bell County after police say he was able to remove his handcuffs, fire a police shotgun, steal an ambulance and take it on a joyride, all while intoxicated.

Colleges in the U.S. are opening their doors - and their financial aid - to Syrian refugees.

A veteran who served in Iraq is the latest person to file a lawsuit accusing a former physician assistant at a Veteran's Administration hospital in Kansas of sexual abuse.

A year after a Special Forces soldier was denied the Medal of Honor, a congressman has appealed to the new Army secretary to review the case. For his role in repelling a 2013 ambush in Afghanistan, Sgt. 1st Class Earl Plumlee had been recommended for the prestigious award but was ultimately denied by then-Army Secretary John McHugh.

France's prime minister said Tuesday that peace between Israelis and the Palestinians is also important for security in Europe.

President Barack Obama loaded his Tuesday remarks to the Vietnamese people with subtle messages for key U.S. lawmakers and Chinese leaders.

After four decades, Yale University Monday again saw some of its students commissioned as Navy ensigns and Air Force second lieutenants after participating in the Reserve Officer Training Corps on its campus during their undergraduate years.

Currently, Hurlburt personnel are prohibited from having their personal guns with them on base property. A change to policies regarding guns on base may be on the horizon, however.

Veteran Leon D. Leggett is one of the most recent recipients of South Korea’s Ambassador of Peace Medal. Now he has to be found.

Five members of the District of Columbia National Guard used the online currency Bitcoin to buy stolen credit card information and make big purchases at stores on military bases, federal prosecutors said Monday.

Syrian forces aided by U.S. airstrikes and advisers have begun their assault to take back Raqqa from the Islamic State group, the Pentagon confirmed Tuesday.

Huntington Ingalls Industries has been awarded a $152 million contract from the Navy for advance work on the future USS Enterprise, the third carrier of the Gerald R. Ford class.

MinuteClinics are walk-in clinics staffed by nurse practitioners to treat acute illness. However, unlike everyday customers who can walk in any time, veterans need to call a VA helpline first, which will refer a veteran to a MinuteClinic. All services are free of charge to veterans, and billed to the VA.

A Republican senator called for Bob McDonald to resign Tuesday amid growing public outrage after the Department of Veterans Affairs secretary compared the time veterans wait for health care to the wait for rides at Disneyland.

The 21st Theater Sustainment Command pulled out all the stops in its annual competition to find the finest soldiers, putting three women and 12 men from its various units through a rigorous three days of field and academic tests — on little sleep, rations of Meals, Ready to Eat, and zero coffee.

One of the most notable things about congressional action to restrict the display of Confederate flags at Department of Veterans Affairs cemeteries was the debate before last week's vote. There was none.

Almost every weekend, his family said, Col. Gene Montague pushed himself to the brink of exhaustion. He ran marathons. He jumped through mud obstacle courses. He attended martial arts seminars, training until he became a fifth-degree black belt. But on Sunday, he died while swimming in the Tennessee River, the first leg of an Ironman competition in Chattanooga.

The Taliban’s “shadow governor” in southern Helmand province was killed in an airstrike, Afghan authorities announced Tuesday, but the insurgents immediately denied the report.

Ukrainian officials say seven soldiers have been killed over the past day in fighting in eastern Ukraine.