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MCAS Miramar Marine Maj. Robert Weingart has been named the Alfred A. Cunningham Marine Aviator of the Year for his heroic actions during the September 2012 insurgent attack on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan. -
Troops used possibly toxic burn pits to destroy waste on a U.S. military base in Afghanistan instead of $5 million worth of incinerators because those incinerators were never made operational, according to a new report by Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. -
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told investigators he and his brother were motivated by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an exclusive report by the Washington Post. -
Army Pfc. Barrett L. Austin, 20, died April 21 at a military hospital in Germany of injuries he suffered when his vehicle was attacked by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan on April 17. -
The bombs that made Boston look like a combat zone have also brought battlefield medicine to their civilian victims. A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has sharpened skills and scalpels, leading to dramatic advances that are now being used to treat the 13 amputees and nearly a dozen other patients still fighting to keep damaged limbs. -
The four-year-old daughter of a San Diego-based Marine made a wish at Disneyland's Snow White wishing well, asking that her father come home from Afghanistan. Little Alyssa Brown didn't realize that Snow White had a big surprise up her sleeve. -
Pennsylvania National Guard pilots Chief Warrant Officer 3 Matthew Ruffner, 34, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jarett Yoder, 26, were killed April 9 when their AH-64 Apache Helicopter crashed in Afghanistan during a reconnaissance mission. -
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced this week he would back keeping anywhere from 8,000 to 12,000 NATO troops in Afghanistan as a stabilizing force after the 2014 deadline to leave the country. -
The father of a Camp Pendleton Marine whose road rage was caught on video has talked to television program "Inside Edition." Dr. Peter Brightman says the incident has prompted his son to seek counseling for post-traumatic stress. -
It was on April 10, 2012 that Army Sgt. Travis Mills stepped on an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan and lost all four limbs. Today Mills and his family are celebrating his "Alive Day" - along with the release of the trailer for a documentary about his life.
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