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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A pay cut is coming for Marines who plan to work as drill instructors, security guards, or in other special duty assignments. That's because the Marine Corps is slated to slash Special Duty Assignment Pay starting Oct. 1. -
The U.S. Army has identified the two-star general killed in Tuesday's insider attack in Afghanistan as Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene. The 55-year-old is the highest ranking U.S. Army officer to be killed in an overseas conflict since the Vietnam War. -
A U.S. Army two-star major general was killed Tuesday in a shooting at a training facility in Afghanistan. In what looks to be a case of "green on blue" violence, a man wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire at the Marshal Fahim National Defense University. -
The death of a member of the U.S. Army's Special Forces in Afghanistan is under investigation. Staff Sgt. Girard D. Gass Jr., 33, suffered fatal injuries in a "non-combat related incident" while on patrol in Nangarhar Province, and was pronounced dead in Jalalabad Air Field Hospital on August 3. -
U.S. military health workers are on the ground in West Africa, helping that part of the world deal with one of the most catastrophic outbreaks of Ebola in the continent's history. And now Pentagon officials are considering sending additional Defense Department personnel to help fight the Ebola outbreak. -
Did Mexican officials at the border violate U.S. Marine veteran Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi's rights? That's the question before a federal judge in Tijuana Monday morning at Tahmooressi's second court hearing.
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