Army Spc. Juan Miguel Mendez Covarrubias, 27, of Hanford was one of two U.S. servicemen killed Wednesday when a barrage of rockets was fired at a military base in Iraq, U.S. officials said Air Force Staff Sgt. Marshal Roberts, 28, of Owasso, Oklahoma was also killed, as well as a...
ValleyPBS will Air History of Native Americans in the US Military
Before Chuck Boers joined the U.S. Army, the Lipan Apache member was given his family's eagle feathers. The feathers had been carried by his great-great-great-grandfather on his rifle when he was an Apache scout. They also were carried by relatives who fought in World War I, World War II, Korea...
World War II ‘Screaming Eagle' Veteran Henry Ochsner Dies at 96
CALIFORNIA CITY — World War II veteran Henry Ochsner, who landed on the beach at Normandy on D-Day and later received the French government's highest honor for his service, has died. He was 96. Family friend Dennis Anderson says Ochsner died Saturday at his home in California City of complications...
Trump Grants Pardon to Man who Killed Iraqi Prisoner
WASHINGTON — The White House says President Donald Trump has granted a pardon to a former first lieutenant in the U.S. Army convicted in 2009 of killing an Iraqi prisoner. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders says Trump granted clemency to Michael Behenna of Oklahoma. Behenna was convicted in 2009 of unpremeditated...
Officials: California Terror Plot by Army Veteran Stopped
LOS ANGELES — A terror plot by an Army veteran who converted to Islam and planned to bomb a white supremacist rally in Southern California as retribution for the New Zealand mosque attacks was thwarted, federal prosecutors said Monday. Mark Domingo, 26, an infantryman who served a combat stint in...
Police: Army Vet Drove Into People Thinking They Were Muslim
SAN FRANCISCO — An Iraq War veteran deliberately drove into a group of pedestrians because he thought some of the people were Muslim, California authorities said Friday. Isaiah Joel Peoples, 34, faces eight counts of attempted murder for injuring eight people, including four who remain hospitalized. The most seriously injured...