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National Vietnam War Veterans Day is March 29. Organizers canceled or postponed many events to slow the spread of COVID-19 through social distancing. Veterans are encouraged to stay connected and participate in virtual events. Here’s a list of some of those events. On VA Social Media For Veterans with a Facebook account, they can download […]
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A highly decorated Simi Valley Marine known for his “larger-than-life” personality was killed during a mission against an Islamic State stronghold in north central Iraq, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Gunnery Sgt. Diego D. Pongo, a critical-skills operator from Simi Valley, and Capt. Moises A. Navas, a special operations officer from Germantown, Maryland, suffered fatal […]
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Ray Chavez, 106 and the oldest U.S. military veteran survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor 77 years ago, has died. A resident of Poway, Calif., Chavez died in his sleep Wednesday. He had been suffering from pneumonia, said his daughter, Kathleen Chavez, according to Associated Press and San Francisco Chronicle reports. Daniel Martinez, chief […]
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WASHINGTON — Thousands of American flags filled a grassy expanse on the National Mall on Wednesday morning, each of them representing a veteran or a servicemember who died by suicide in 2018 so far. Maj. Sandra Lee Altamirano of the Army Reserve said she took military leave to help place the 5,520 U.S. flags. She recently lost […]
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Honoring Our Fallen: CalVet honors members of the U.S. Armed Forces who made the ultimate sacrifice for our great nation. Efforts continue to bring home those who went missing in action, including 72,906 American service members unaccounted for from World War II, 7,699 from the Korean War and 1,594 from the Vietnam War. Early last week, […]
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NEW YORK — Americans looked back on 9/11 Tuesday with tears and somber tributes as President Donald Trump hailed “the moment when America fought back” on one of the hijacked planes used as weapons in the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. Victims’ relatives said prayers for their country, pleaded for national unity and pressed […]
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FORT CARSON, Colo. – A soldier based with the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson died Tuesday in a non-combat incident in Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Diobanjo S. Sanagustin, 32, deployed to Afghanistan in May. The U.S. Army has not released more information about the incident that led to his death, […]
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VIDEO ABOVE: Joe McCain reminisces about growing up with a young John McCain, their family’s military service and what it was like hearing that John had been shot down over Vietnam. WASHINGTON — Six days after Roberta McCain’s Navy pilot son was shot down and taken prisoner in Vietnam, she wrote an urgent letter to […]
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Staff Sgt. Reymund Rarogal Transfiguracion, 36, is pictured with his wife, Edelyn, and two children. Transfiguracion, of Waikoloa, Hawaii, died from injuries sustained when a roadside bomb detonated near him while he was on patrol in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE TRANSFIGURACION FAMILY KABUL, Afghanistan — The Special Forces soldier who died Sunday […]
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Navy Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class George H. Gibson, of Winchester, Kansas, killed during World War II, has been accounted for and will be buried July 21 in Inglewood. On Dec. 7, 1941, Gibson was assigned to the USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma […]
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