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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Steven Rhodes served five years as an active-duty Marine at MCAS Miramar, where he played about a dozen football games with fellow Marines. Now a freshman at Middle Tennessee State University, an obscure NCAA rule is keeping Rhodes from playing for his college team. -
Former British Army officer Mark Sutton, who played a parachuting James Bond during the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony, was killed in a wing-diving accident Wednesday morning. -
President Barack Obama today announced the U.S. military will not take part in Operation Bright Star with the Egyptian military, which was slated to begin next month. The president cancelled the United States' participation in the biennial joint military exercise as a response to the escalating violence in Egypt. -
The Defense Commissary Agency announced this week that its commissaries worldwide will return to normal hours the week of August 18 to 24 - a move prompted by the Department of Defense's decision to cut furlough days for civilian DoD employees from 11 days to six. -
Navy Capt. Christopher Bolt became Commanding Officer of the San Diego-based USS Ronald Reagan on Tuesday afternoon, replacing Capt. Thom Burke, who served as CO of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier for more than three years. -
The Pentagon announced today it will extend benefits to same-sex military spouses, retroactive to the date the Supreme Court ruled the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. Benefits will become available to married same-sex couples no later than September 3.
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