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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More active-duty U.S. service members died from suicide than combat in 2012, according to statistics compiled by the Associated Press. -
Three U.S. Navy destroyers - USS Stockdale, USS Higgins, and USS William P. Lawrence - are scheduled to leave San Diego this morning for a deployment to the Persian Gulf. -
The Pentagon announced the first U.S. combat death in Afghanistan in 2013. Army Sgt. Aaron X. Wittman, 28, died January 10 in Nangarhar Province. -
A viral email claiming U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan are no longer being served breakfast because of budget cuts isn't true, and the Department of Defense has gone on the offensive to battle the rumor. -
The USS Benfold is slated to return home to San Diego on Friday. The Benfold has been on a seven-month deployment, which included tracking the missile launched by North Korea in December. -
Retired Brig. Gen. Margaret A. Brewer died January 2 at the age of 82. Brewer became the first female general officer in the Marine Corps in 1978. She served at Camp Pendleton in the early 1960s.
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