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Quadruple amputee and double arm transplant recipient Brendan Marrocco recently told reporters he wanted country music star Blake Shelton to be his first post-transplant handshake. And Shelton has reached out through Twitter to assure Marrocco he'll make that wish come true. -
Retired Army Sgt. Brendan Marrocco, a quadruple amputee who recently underwent a double arm transplant, talked about his hopes for the future at a news conference Tuesday. Marrocco lost all four limbs in a 2009 roadside bomb attack in Iraq. -
KPBS Midday EditionA well-known San Diego Marine writes a guidebook for young people to help determine if they have what it takes to join the Corps. -
Autopsies of service members killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars show 1 in 12 had coronary atherosclerosis, or a hardening of the arteries. -
Dogs who serve in the United States military would be ensured a good home and proper care in retirement under a measure that cleared Congress last week, and now awaits the signature of President Barack Obama. -
Marine veteran Jon Hammar, who has been held in a Mexican jail for more than four months on a gun charge, will be released today. The Marine's mother, Olivia Hammar, confirmed the impending release to Fox News Radio. -
The hardest thing Staff Sgt. Monica Paz ever had to do as a Marine was serve as drill instructor at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island. So when she found out she had a spinal cord injury, Paz believed she was ready for the challenge. -
NTSB investigators say a parade float filled with wounded veterans that was struck by a freight train had crossed onto the railroad tracks after warning signals were going off. -
The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces is hearing oral arguments today in the case of ex-Camp Pendleton Marine Lawrence Hutchins III, who was convicted of murdering a man in Hamdaniya, Iraq in 2006. -
An ex-Marine from Hemet who smuggled a machine gun into the country from Iraq, where he served in combat, was handed a two-year federal prison sentence Thursday. Joel Cleve Miller, 40, was convicted in June of illegally possessing an automatic weapon — an AK-47 that he told friends had once been used by Saddam Hussein’s royal guard.
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