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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Women in the U.S. Army will be able to wear body armor that is more suited for the female form as early as next summer. Female soldiers have been forced to don standard-issue body armor meant for men, leaving parts of their bodies potentially vulnerable to injury. -
The pilot of a Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier was able to safely eject from the jet before it crashed in the Imperial Valley Wednesday afternoon. The Harrier crashed roughly 15 miles northwest of the base at about 3:30 yesterday afternoon. -
The Navy on Saturday will christen the USS Somerset in honor of the crew and passengers on United Airlines Flight 93. Their plane crashed in Somerset County, Pennsylvania on September 11th, 2001, after the flight was hijacked by terrorists. -
A soon-to-be published study claims men who served in the military were twice as likely to consider themselves transgender as men who were not veterans. Air Force veteran and psychologist George Brown says his study looked at more than 5 million veterans as subjects. -
The Pentagon gave service members explicit permission to march in uniform in San Diego's Gay Pride Parade last week. But Republic Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma has sent a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, questioning the legality of the Defense Department's approval.
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Sgt. Eric E. Williams, 27, of Murrieta, California, died July 23 in Afghanistan. Williams had written a blog since 2008, called My Friend The Medic, about his experiences as a flight medic for the Army.
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