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 military is investigating the death of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Sean P. Neal, 19, of Riverside, California. According to the Department of Defense, he was killed on Oct. 23 in Baghdad, Iraq, in a "non-combat related incident." Neal is the first U.S. service member to die in Iraq since 2011. -
It was in the early morning hours of Oct. 23, 1983, that a truck bomb exploded in the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 U.S. service members. Now, for the first time in more than 30 years, Marines are back in Beirut - this time as guards at the U.S. Embassy. -
With the aid of a helicopter and night vision goggles, a Marine Corps search and rescue team was able to find a group of 28 boy scouts who had become lost during a canoe trip. -
Alleged serial killer Darren Vann was "prematurely discharged" from the Marine Corps in the early 1990s, according to military records obtained by the Austin-American Statesman. The Corps found that Vann, now suspected of murdering at least seven women in Indiana, had a character "incongruent with Marine Corps’ expectations and standards." -
The U.S. military's top military officer wants American service members (and their families) to know anyone deployed in the mission to contain the Ebola outbreak is getting top-notch training to keep them safe from the deadly virus. -
The U.S. military has transferred Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton, 19, from the brig of the San Diego-based USS Peleliu to Camp Aguinaldo, a Philippine military compound, allowing the Peleliu to leave the Philippines.
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