Category: In Memoriam

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]