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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On August 6, 2011, Afghan insurgents shot down a CH-47 helicopter with 38 men and one military working dog on board. The crash killed everyone on the Chinook, including 30 U.S. service members (17 of whom were Navy SEALs) and eight Afghans. -
Search crews today discovered human remains at the crash site of a U.S. Air Force HH-60 helicopter in Okinawa, prompting the Air Force to suspend its search for one of the aircraft's missing crew members. -
The Army and Air Force Exchange Service will no longer sell magazines like Playboy and Penthouse on its newsstands. -
A U.S. Air Force helicopter crashed Monday on an American military base in Okinawa, Japan. Three of the four crew members involved in the crash have been found and are in stable condition, according to a news release from 18th Wing Public Affairs. The fourth crew member has yet to be located. -
A review of the records of military sexual assault counselors and recruiters, ordered by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in May, has prompted the suspension of 55 soldiers and 5 members of the Navy - who, it turned out, had committed crimes like child abuse and sexual assault. -
Two Air National Guard F-16 jets collided in midair off the coast of Virginia Thursday night. The pilot of one of the jets ejected, and was later rescued by the Coast Guard. The pilot from the other jet involved in the collision was able to fly his aircraft back to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
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