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 search is on for a U.S. military pilot who went missing after his Marine Corps F/A-18C crashed on a training flight for the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center's "TOPGUN" course at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada. The jet went down in a remote, mountainous site, and the Navy reports "the scene indicate the aircraft is a total loss." -
The Navy on Saturday will commission the USS Somerset in honor of the crew and passengers of United Airlines Flight 93, who lost their lives when terrorists hijacked their plane on 9/11. -
Defense Department Secretary Chuck Hagel has tapped acting Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michael Lumpkin to lead the effort to bring home prisoner of war Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. -
The senior enlisted advisers of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force expressed their unified dismay at a plan that would raise grocery prices in military commissaries. This, after a nonprofit trade group said raising prices would eventually lead to commissaries closing their doors. -
The Blue Angels visited Marine Corps Air Station Miramar on Wednesday. Members of the team were in town to discuss the Miramar Air Show, which is scheduled for Oct. 4-5. -
Marine Corps spouses had a hand in convincing Commandant James Amos to reverse a previous ruling and allow Marines to once again roll up their sleeves. Why all the fuss? As Bonnie Amos, First Lady of the Marine Corps put it, "We miss our husbands' guns!"
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