Originally Published: 26 DEC 22 16:09 ETBy Matt McCabeClick here for updates on this story COLUMBIA, Missouri (KOMU) — John Clark and Wayne Wallingford were 30,000 feet apart during Christmas of 1972.Clark, a U.S. Air Force pilot who had been shot down 5 years earlier, was a prisoner of war in Hanoi, the capital city of
Continue Reading Originally Published: 26 DEC 22 14:28 ETBy Amy CutlerClick here for updates on this story MESA, Arizona (KPHO) — This Christmas Day, a Mesa woman and WWII veteran is marking another milestone, turning 100 years old.Family and friends gathered Sunday for a birthday party with all the ordinary birthday celebration. The opening of cards and presents,
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EL PASO, Texas — The Texas National Guard arrived early Tuesday morning in the Borderland. They set up barbed wire as part of what they describe as an exercise. Part of that training included quickly setting up barbed wire to prepare for a situation- if it escalates. Meanwhile, a DPS Spokesperson says that barbed wire
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EL PASO, Texas – The uncasing of the brigade colors formally marks the successful completion of the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team’s rotation to Korea as the last Armored brigade to support the Korean peninsula. The Brigade deployed for nine months as part of a regular rotation of forces to support the United States’ commitment
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EL PASO, Texas — The only military operations not memorialized at the Old Glory Site in northeast El Paso are the Persian Gulf operations. Soon, granite memorials for Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and the War on Terror will be built on the site. However, the group building the memorials is in
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EL PASO, Texas – For every November 11th, the nation comes together to remember and honor the service and sacrifices of our Veterans. A group of Veterans in El Paso and New Mexico will play in a senior softball veterans appreciation game. Henry Veloz was named president of the El Paso/New Mexico Senior Softball League five
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Editor’s note: This list was assembled through various online resources. Please check if discounts or giveaways are available where you plan to visit first and the requirements of that business. ABC-7 is not affiliated with the following giveaways or discounts. Follow this list as we add more options before Nov. 11. EL PASO, Texas —
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EL PASO, Texas – The 17th Annual Northeast Veterans Day parade will take place Friday morning. The Northeast Veterans Day parade always happens on the actual holiday, and local Veterans are looking forward to their biggest parade yet. Organizers expect a larger crowd this year. The parade will start at the Texas National Guard building
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, Darya Tarasova and Rob Picheta, CNN Russia has ordered a retreat from the key southern city of Kherson, the only regional capital it has captured since February’s invasion, in a dramatic strategic setback for Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the face of Ukrainian advances in the region, Russian troops across the Kherson
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The first complete skeleton of a prehistoric marine reptile was thought to be lost forever in a bombing raid in London in 1941. Paleontologist Mary Anning discovered the ichthyosaur fossil in 1818, two decades before the word dinosaur was even part of our lexicon. The ancient marine reptiles got the name
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County Commissioners will hold an event Tuesday in celebration of proclaiming itself “Veterans Capital of the U.S.A.” The event will be held at 6 p.m. at the El Paso County Coliseum. The designation was an idea from the County Judge with the support of county commissioners. “We are grounding
Continue ReadingBy Katharina Krebs, Chris Liakos and Lianne Kolirin, CNN Russia has announced that its “partial mobilization” of hundreds of thousands of citizens to fight in the country’s war on Ukraine has been completed, bringing to an end a controversial draft that sparked protests and an exodus of men from the country. The Russian Ministry of
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U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, who represents Uvalde, on Thursday became the first major Republican to call for the resignation of Steve McCraw, the director of the Department of Public Safety, for his agency’s response to an elementary school shooting in the city that left 19 children and two adults dead and captured the attention of
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EL PASO, Texas — The first native El Pasoan to serve as Port Director in U.S. Customs and Border Protection History has assumed command of the El Paso Port of Entry. Port Director Ray Provencio was formally sworn in Tuesday morning at a CBP change of command ceremony. “I am honored and humbled to be
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN Russia is accusing Ukraine of planning to use a so-called dirty bomb, an allegation dismissed by Kyiv and its Western allies as a false-flag operation that Moscow could use as a pretext to escalate the Kremlin’s war against its neighbor. A dirty bomb is a weapon that combines conventional explosives like
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua — United States Navy Veteran Gerardo Sotelo Pinales is set to return to his hometown of El Paso after being in Juarez for 28 years. He was deported after he started doing drugs at his young age. Sotelo was living in a homeless shelter in Juarez. He suffered different health difficulties while in
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Javier Pong, a Marine recruit who passed away during training back in September, was laid to rest in Las Cruces Friday. The funeral was held at Baca’s Funeral Chapel. Visitations were allowed from 9:30 to 11:30 AM. He was then buried at Masonic Cemetery. Pong, 18, was a Las Cruces
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FORT BLISS, Texas — Unaccompanied migrant children have had to wait weeks for updates from their case managers, causing many of the children to face distress, anxiety, and panic attacks under the care of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement, according to a report released by the Office of Inspector
Continue ReadingBy Ellie Kaufman and Barbara Starr, CNN Navy SEAL candidate Kyle Mullen, 24, died of bacterial pneumonia in the hours after completing what is known as “Hell Week” during the special operations force’s demanding basic training program in February, a Navy line of duty investigation released Wednesday found. While there were several signs Mullen was
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — An 18-year-old Marine recruit who recently graduated from Mayfield High School has died after collapsing during training at Camp Pendleton. According to a statement from the Marines obtained by the San Diego Tribune, Pfc. Javier Pong collapsed and became “unconscious and unresponsive” while participating in what the Marines have called
Continue ReadingCNN By Aaron Pellish and Devan Cole, CNN Former Gov. Bill Richardson said Sunday he is “cautiously optimistic” that two Americans wrongfully detained by Russia will be released and suggested they could be freed by the end of the year. Richardson, a former Democratic governor of New Mexico, and his namesake center privately work on
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN The US intelligence community believes that the car bombing that killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of prominent Russian political figure Alexander Dugin, was authorized by elements within the Ukrainian government, sources briefed on the intelligence told CNN. The US was not aware of the plan beforehand, according
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A service member assigned to the Texas National Guard’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star, died by a self-inflicted gunshot with his duty weapon Tuesday morning in Eagle Pass, according to an official document obtained by Army Times and The Texas Tribune. According to the document, the shooting was around 8:20 a.m. The Texas Military
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(CNN) — As Vladimir Putin lost more of the Ukrainian territory he is seeking to annex, his government on Tuesday sought to finalize the formalities of its claim to four Ukrainian regions, none of which are fully controlled by Russia anymore. The upper house of Russia’s rubber-stamp legislature, the Federation Council, on Tuesday unanimously approved the decision
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EL PASO, Texas — Alex Ortiz, the El Paso marine who was injured while fighting in Ukraine, is back in the United States and is showing progress in his health, his mother tells ABC-7. Ortiz sustained life-threatening injuries while in Ukraine and received medical treatment in a German hospital. His family had been trying to
Continue ReadingBy Kylie Atwood and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN Two American veterans and five British citizens who had been held by Russian-backed forces for months have been released as part of the prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine that was brokered by Saudi Arabia. Family members of Americans Alexander John-Robert Drueke, 39, from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Andy
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A Texas representative whose district includes one of the nation’s largest Army posts is calling for hearings to examine the military’s pretrial confinement system, which gives commanders the discretion to detain service members facing criminal charges ahead of trial. Rep. Veronica Escobar, a Democrat who represents El Paso and sits on the House Armed Services
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EL PASO, Texas — ABC-7 got a closer look at the reopening of the 1st Armored Division museum at Fort Bliss. It was closed for two years due to COVID-19 and facility repairs. The Fort Bliss and Old Ironsides museum reopened its doors in July. “We educate the community not only about the army presence here
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UPDATE (09/01): Officials with Fort Bliss say a missing 21-year-old soldier has been found safe. Messam contacted authorities. The First Armored Division is reporting that he is safe. On social media the first Armored Division said in a post, “Pfc. Messam has contacted authorities and we can confirm he is safe. Thank you to everyone
Continue ReadingBy Ellie Kaufman and Barbara Starr, CNN The US Navy prevented an Iranian ship from capturing an American maritime drone in the Persian gulf overnight Monday into Tuesday local time in what a senior US commander called a “flagrant” and “unwarranted” incident. While US forces in the region were transiting international waters around 11 p.m.
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