
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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Three of the four Navy SEALs injured in South Sudan when their aircraft was attacked by gunfire Dec. 21 are back in the United States receiving medical care. The fourth SEAL is hospitalized still in Germany.
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Navy Corpsman Robert Everhart told his girlfriend Michelle Gungon he wouldn't be able to make it home to San Diego for the holidays. But Everhart had more than one surprise up his sleeve when he visited Gungon at Sharp Memorial Hospital, where she works as a nurse.
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The Marine Corps' new physical fitness standards requiring female Marines to do pullups were to go into effect New Year's Day. But because of the high failure rate of women Marines attempting to complete pullups, that requirement has been delayed.
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The American service member killed in Friday's suicide bomb attack near Kabul, Afghanistan has been identified as Air Force Capt. David Lyon.
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The widow of Sgt. Daniel M. Vasselian said her husband joined the Marine Corps because he "wanted to be great." Vasselian died Dec. 23 in Afghanistan when the enemy ambushed his Humvee.
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Three NATO soldiers, one of them American, were killed Friday when a suicide car bomb hit their convoy in Afghanistan.
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