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.
MORE STORIES BY THIS AUTHOR
-
The Navy is distributing an estimated 35,000 free $10 phone cards to sailors and Marines deployed this holiday season. -
For little ones awaiting Christmas, it may seem like FOREVER until Santa Claus begins his journey around the globe. But the folks at NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) have their Santa Tracker website up and running - with lots of games, music, and movies to keep the kiddies busy until the big day arrives. -
The Third Marine Aircraft Wing Band, based at MCAS Miramar in San Diego, covered two Macklemore & Ryan Lewis songs at their recent Marine Corps Ball. Video of their performance of "Thrift Shop" and Can't Hold Us" is going viral on YouTube, with more than 184,000 views so far. -
New information has emerged from North Korea about Merrill E. Newman, the 85-year-old Korean War veteran from Northern California, who has been detained in North Korea since Oct. 26. It seems North Korea considers Newman a prisoner of war - the Korean War - which took place sixty years ago. -
As countless military families head out to buy their Thanksgiving fixings at commissaries across the country, the Department of Defense is considering a plan to forever close the doors of all stateside base grocery stores. -
What do Abraham Lincoln, Stonehenge, and Kim Kardashian all have in common? They've each been recreated in rock sculpture by Gunnery Sgt. Gregory Miller, a San Diego-based Marine currently stationed in Afghanistan.
- San Diegans ask important questions about housing in Reddit AMA
- New safe parking site frees city to push campers out of Mission Bay
- This candidate for California governor has a potential conflict of interest in her own home
- Haircuts and healing: How a Vista barber is mentoring youth
- San Diego Unified goes back to school with new phone policy in place