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May 3, 2016

National Guardsman charged with taking $10G for funerals he never attended

An Ohio National Guardsman who served as an area honor guard at funerals was indicted last week after investigators determined he racked up more than $10,000 in mileage expenses for 130 funerals he wasn’t at.

May 3, 2016

National Guardsman marks end of Afghanistan deployment with surprise homecoming with family

A Nevada National Guardsman has marked the end of a one-year deployment in Afghanistan with a surprise Father's Day weekend homecoming with his wife and six children at the Reno Rodeo.

May 3, 2016

National guardsman nabbed at Chicago airport, allegedly on way to join ISIS

A National Guardsman was arrested at a Chicago airport for attempting to head the Middle East to use their solider skills fighting for a new army – The Islamic State.

December 22, 2015

One American victim of Afghan attack was a woman, official says

One of the six U.S. service members who died in a Taliban suicide bombing in Afghanistan Tuesday was a woman, a senior U.S. defense official tells Fox News.

December 22, 2015

NYPD officer among six killed by bomber in Afghanistan

Taliban claiming responsibility

December 2, 2015

Postal Service ordered to reinstate Purple Heart recipient fired for ‘excessive military leave,’ report says

The U.S. Postal Service was ordered by a federal board last week to reinstate a National Guardsman and give the man $2 million in back pay after he was fired from his job for taking "excessive military leave," The Los Angeles Times reported.

November 30, 2015

New Hampshire waitress picks up tab for furloughed National Guard soldiers

A New Hampshire waitress picked up the tab for two service members who she overheard say were furloughed due to the government slimdown.

November 30, 2015

Backfires, not gunshots? So says man arrested at Camp Shelby

Soldiers participating in a training exercise on a Mississippi military base heard it Tuesday and Wednesday — noises they believed were gunshots around the fringes of Camp Shelby.

November 29, 2015

Utah national guardsman had surprise sit down with Obama

A Utah donned man donned a white polo shirt and drove to Hill Air Force base last week for a surprise meeting with President Obama.

November 28, 2015

Pilot in F-15 crash in Virginia was killed, officials say

The pilot of an F-15 jet that crashed earlier this week in remote Virginia mountains was killed, military officials now say, bringing a sad end to an exhaustive two-day search involving more than 100 local, state and federal officials as well as volunteers.