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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Our country's top military officer showed off a softer side last night with a Sinatra serenade. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey sang a slightly altered version of "My Kind of Town" at the 8th annual "Tribute to the United States Coast Guard" in Washington, D.C. -
Members of the United States soccer team are full of apologies today after mistakenly snubbing U.S. troops who had gathered on a tarmac in Guatemala to show their support for the athletes before a World Cup qualifying match. -
Capt. Francis Gary Powers will posthumously receive the Silver Star during a Pentagon ceremony on Friday, June 15. Powers spent almost two years in a Moscow prison after his U-2 reconnaissance plane crashed in the Soviet Union in 1960.
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Former "The Weather Channel" meteorologist Nicole Mitchell is suing her one-time employer. Capt. Mitchell alleges the network did not renew her contract because of her service in the Air Force Reserve. -
The U.S. military continues to sift through evidence to find out if 12 American service members (including a handful from San Diego) deserve disciplinary action for their role in the Secret Service prostitution scandal in Columbia. -
Jackson Zortman probably thought his day couldn't get any better when he was chosen to throw out the first pitch for a minor league baseball team, the Omaha Storm Chasers. But dad Staff Sgt. Rik Zortman, who was slated to be training out-of-state with the Iowa Air National Guard, had a trick up his sleeve.
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