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 budget for Australia's military - the Australian Defence Force - is expected to double over the next decade. That means Aussie military recruiters are looking overseas to fill military jobs like fast jet pilots, air combat officers, and electrical engineers. -
The epic search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will be one of the main topics Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel plans to discuss when he meets with fellow defense chiefs at the upcoming Association of Southeast Asian Nations conference. Hagel said en route to the conference that the search has "big limitations" to being successful. -
It's estimated children in military families move as many as nine times between kindergarten and high school. A new mobile app featuring familiar Sesame Street characters aims to ease the stress of moving to an unfamiliar new home. -
For the first time since February 2003, an entire month passed with no member of the United States military dying in either Afghanistan or Iraq. -
Two Camp Pendleton Marines are in the hospital this morning, and a third Marine recovering at home, after the three were stabbed breaking up a street fight. Police say the Marines were trying to help a woman wearing an Angels jersey, who was involved in an altercation with two male Dodgers fans. -
Midshipman 3rd Class Hans Loewen, 20, died March 29 after suffering a massive head injury in a freak accident. Loewen, a sophomore at the U.S. Naval Academy, was skateboarding (wearing a helmet) when he fell and was run over by a car.
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