Tag Archives: Military

  • News

    Driver offers rides for veterans at RIR

    It was a special day for veterans at Richmond International Raceway Sunday.

  • Virginia This Morning

    VIRGINIA THIS MORNING: ‘Service When Women Come Marching Home” Documentary

    In times of war many soldiers, including women, return home with devastating physical and emotional injuries.

  • News

    HARTMAN: World War II veteran learns to read

    Almost 68 years after World War Two’s end, a decorated veteran of that conflict is waging a struggle that he says is the toughest of his life.

  • News Warrior Dogs (CBS/60 Minutes)

    Anti-terror bomb dogs are also lifesavers on the battlefield

    Lara Logan gets a rare look into the secretive world of these special dogs – some of whose capabilities are military secrets — and their handlers on “60 Minutes.”

  • News

    Budget cuts end Fleet Week in NYC

    The Navy said aircraft carriers and destroyers will not be sailing into New York Harbor for Fleet Week.

  • News

    How to help homeless Virginia veterans

    Volunteers are renovating a Church Hill home for veterans.

  • News NEWS >> CRIME >> Crime Scene Tape

    Police: Army recruiter shoots teenage recruit, then self

    Police continued their investigation Tuesday into the shooting deaths of an Army recruiter and a 17-year-old girl in Maryland that appear to be “a murder-suicide,” police said.

  • News money and coins

    Budget cuts ground Blue Angels, Thunderbirds

    The nation’s best military fliers have had their wings clipped, thanks to the forced spending cuts imposed on the federal government this year.

  • News Terry Griffith, owner of Dogs for Veterans, is looking for donations to expand his dog training facilities. For  more information on Dogs for Veteran visit the the organization’s website.

    Nonprofit trains service dogs for veterans

    Glen Allen-based Dogs for Veterans receives applications from veterans from all over the country.

  • News Pentagon

    Defense cuts furloughs to 14 days, from 22

    The Pentagon managed to get a little bit of a reprieve for its workers by cutting furloughs to 14 days from its originally-planned 22 days.

  • News 24659508

    Petraeus affair apology: ‘It was my own doing’

    In a rare public appearance since admitting to an extramarital affair, David Petraeus apologized Tuesday night for the scandal that led to his resignation as head of the CIA last year.

  • News Salvage operations are underway

    Navy warship runs aground on Philippine reef

    The bow of a U.S. Navy warship that grounded on a Philippine reef in January was cut from the rest of the hull on Tuesday, lifted by a massive crane and dropped on a waiting barge.