Beth Ford Roth
Home Post BloggerBlogger Beth Ford Roth was born into a military family and has covered issues important to service members and their loved ones for many years. She has worked as a broadcast journalist in both commercial television and public radio.
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The Pentagon has identified the American soldier killed Thursday in an insider attack. Army Staff Sgt. Thomas A. Baysore, Jr., 31, lost his life when a man wearing an wearing a Afghan National Security uniform shot him to death. -
Loved ones of Cpl. Nicholas Sell gathered today to celebrate the life of the fallen Camp Pendleton Marine, who died at the tender age of 21 in a training accident at Twentynine Palms on September 16. -
For the second time this week, an insider attack has taken the life of U.S. service member in Afghanistan. The assailant who killed the American serviceman was identified as wearing a Afghan Army uniform. -
California Governor Jerry Brown has ordered flags above the State Capitol be lowered today in honor of Army Staff Sgt. Robert E. Thomas Jr. of Fontana. Thomas, 24, died September 13 at Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas after suffering injuries in a "non-combat related incident" on April 21, 2013, in Afghanistan. -
Navy Senior Chief Dwayne Beebe-Franqui proposed to his boyfriend Jonathan Beebe-Franqui at the 2012 San Diego LGBT Pride parade. The couple legally married in Maryland in January 2013, but it wasn't until this month that the Pentagon officially extended spousal and family benefits to same-sex spouses like Dwayne and Jonathan. -
The Navy has released the names of the two crew members who died when their MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter crashed in the Red Sea on Sunday: Lt. Cmdr. Landon L. Jones and Chief Warrant Officer Jonathon S. Gibson.
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