EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Today, it was announced that the Amigo Airsho will return to El Paso, to the Biggs Army Airfield, on October 12th and 13th of 2024. Hundreds of invited guests — including business and civic leaders, elected officials, representatives from Fort Bliss, and aviation enthusiasts – gathered in an airplane hangar at Million
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Airman Garret Glore is humble and reserved. He works out up to five hours a day to be ready for anything. “Personally I don’t see myself as a hero, as an airman and an American, I was just doing my job,” Airman Glore told ABC-7 in an interview at Holloman
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Right now, a veteran in crisis can walk into any health care facility for suicide support anywhere in the country at no cost, regardless of the facility’s Veterans Administration status. This program is now over a year old, born out of the VA’s “top clinical priority” of stopping veteran suicides.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A retirement ceremony was held to commemorate the career of a proud service member. After serving the Army for a majority of his life, one officer says he couldn’t have done it without support. People gathered from all over the nation to celebrate with Colonel Robert V. Urquhart and his
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Many Blackhawk helicopters from the 2-501st Combat Aviation Brigade departed form Fort Bliss to Fort Irwin, Calif., to support the 1st Armored Division’s upcoming National Training Center rotation. The 2-501st Combat Aviation Brigade plays an important role in combat operations for 1st Armored Division and participates in training rotations once
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — “Don’t Let the Monsters Out” is a book by an Air Force Veteran who shares her experiences serving in Camp Bucca during the Iraq war. “Hatred, it smells like adrenaline, it smells like sewage, and it just it smells like everybody wants to kill me.” Hatred was Airman Heather O’Brien’s first impression of
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Veteran service providers came together on January 11, 2024, to host the 1st annual Borderplex Veteran Provider Summit. The event was held at the El Paso Convention Center and sought to give providers information on resources available to veterans in the borderland, as well as help providers find gaps they
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FORT BLISS, Texas (KVIA) – U.S. Army Fort Bliss is reporting a late start to the work day on Monday. Soldiers and DA Civilians are to report to their duty stations at 10 a.m. The Child Development Centers are scheduled to open no later than 9 a.m. Military leaders ask all personnel to take extra
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – William Beaumont Army Medical Center says due to the inclement weather patients with appointments already scheduled before 10 a.m. on Monday, will need to be rescheduled for a later time. “Patients can voluntarily cancel and reschedule appointments through MHS GENESIS patient portal online,” said a spokeswoman for WBAMC. Those with
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FORT BLISS, Texas (KVIA) — The Ft. Bliss Law Enforcement team gave the all clear after a “suspicious” package was found at the Freedom Crossing shopping center. The team had evacuated the center this morning, then investigated the package into the afternoon. They gave the all clear after 1 p.m. Ft. Bliss says the shopping
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — 63-year-old veteran Wayne Weaver will walk almost 2,000 miles for various veteran charities in El Paso. His walk starts Thursday. He’ll pull a wagon filled with supplies donned with American and POW flags. His only companion on this four to five month trip is his service dog, Houdini. Weaver is
Continue ReadingOriginally Published: 02 JAN 24 16:42 ET By Alex Marquardt and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The United States has quietly reached an agreement that extends its military presence at a sprawling base in Qatar for another 10 years, three US defense officials and another official familiar with the agreement told CNN. The deal, which has not been announced publicly, highlights Washington’s reliance
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The community gathered Tuesday, for U.S. Navy Veteran Peter Botello, who was laid to rest with no family in attendance. Benches usually filled by family members were empty, but Botello was not alone. Fellow veterans from the Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association and representatives with the El Paso County Veteran Services,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Two brothers from California, raised in the same home with the same family values, are now grown up and living their dreams hundreds of miles apart, until this year’s Sun Bowl. Big brother Brandon Caufield felt a sense of pride for his county at a young age and was drawn
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — 17-year-old Ryan Jabot says he was devastated after his father lost his battle to PTSD four years ago. “It’s been pretty rough,” says Jabot, “but playing video games has helped get through that and meeting people who have the same thing, playing video games and same passions, it helps a
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico (KVIA) — We have a very special holiday greeting all the way from Africa, where master sergeant Shawn Ouellette is at. He is assigned to the 49th civil engineer squadron at Holloman Air Force Base in Otero County, New Mexico and is currently deployed to Chebelley air field in Africa. Master sergeant Shawn Ouellette sent this greeting “Hello, everyone.
Continue ReadingCNN By Victoria Butenko, Maria Kostenko, Mariya Knight, Svitlana Vlasova and Christian Edwards, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Russia has launched the biggest air attack on Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian military told CNN, with an unprecedented number of drones and missiles fired at targets across the country, killing at
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — As the holiday season comes to a close and New Year celebrations begin, one El Pasoan is determined to continue giving back. Retired Army Nurse Debo Wakefield has volunteered with the Aloha Medical Mission for six years. In just a few weeks, she and a medical team of thirty from
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By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military on Thursday opened a new chapter in how it investigates and prosecutes cases of sexual assault and other major crimes, putting independent lawyers in charge of those decisions and sidelining commanders after years of pressure from Congress. The change, long resisted by Pentagon
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Retired 1st Lieutenant James Clayton Flowers, a member of the 99th fighter squadron — 332-nd fighter group turned 108 years old today. He has over a century of memories, both in and out of uniform, in the classroom and firsthand experience of many historical moments in U.S. History. Stationed
Continue Reading By MOHAMMED JAHJOUH and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza (AP) — She was born amid war, in a hospital with no electricity in a southern Gaza city that has been bombarded daily. Her family named her al-Amira Aisha — “Princess Aisha.” She didn’t complete her third week before she died, killed in an Israeli
Continue ReadingOriginally Published: 15 DEC 23 14:27 ET Updated: 15 DEC 23 16:10 ET By Tamar Michaelis and David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — Israeli soldiers shot and killed three Israeli hostages in northern Gaza after misidentifying them as threats, the Israel Defense Forces said. “During combat in Shejaiya, the IDF mistakenly identified three Israeli hostages as
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CNN By Natasha Bertrand and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — Nearly half of the air-to-ground munitions that Israel has used in Gaza in its war with Hamas since October 7 have been unguided, otherwise known as “dumb bombs,” according to a new US intelligence assessment. The assessment, compiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
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By WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian militants carried out one of the deadliest single attacks on Israeli soldiers since the Gaza invasion began, killing at least nine in an urban ambush, the military said Wednesday, a sign of the stiff resistance Hamas still poses
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Rina Gonoi came forward in summer 2022 to demand a reinvestigation of the case that authorities dropped nearly a year earlier, saying the sexual assault caused her to give up her military career. Now, with her court case won and widespread problems uncovered in the organization, she
Continue Reading By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is hitting hundreds of people and firms around the globe with new economic and diplomatic sanctions as the U.S. targets third-country contributors that are equipping Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions stretch from Russia to China to Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. The
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By JOSEF FEDERMAN, WAFAA SHURAFA and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s defense minister on Monday pushed back against international calls to wrap up the country’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip, saying the current phase of the operation against the Hamas militant group will “take time.” Yoav Gallant, a member
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By JOSEF FEDERMAN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The United States has offered strong support to Israel in its war against the Hamas militant group that rules the Gaza Strip. But the allies are increasingly at odds over what will happen to Gaza once the war winds down. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin
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(CNN) — A partisan clash between Senate Republicans and Democrats over border policy continues to threaten the effort to send badly needed foreign aid to key US allies as time and money are running out for Ukraine. Senate negotiators are vowing to continue to try to reach a deal, after Republicans blocked foreign aid from advancing
Continue Reading By AUDREY McAVOY and CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Ira “Ike” Schab had just showered, put on a clean sailor’s uniform and closed his locker aboard the USS Dobbin when he heard a call for a fire rescue party. He went topside to see the USS Utah capsizing and Japanese planes
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