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Posted Feb 23, 2022, 7:34 am
Valeria Rodriguez
/Cronkite News
Seven members of the Navy – five nurses, a respiratory technician and a doctor – have joined Valleywise Health Medical Center to support overburdened frontline health care workers, per a request from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. ... Read more»
Posted Sep 10, 2021, 10:40 am
Simon Williams
/Cronkite News
Saturday’s football game between Air Force and Navy will be the 54th between the two teams – and their first meeting on 9/11, leaving one Arizona-born Navy player with “goosebumps just thinking about it.” ... Read more»
Posted Sep 6, 2021, 7:21 am
Levi Pulkkinen
/Hetchinger Report
While much of the attention to education benefits for service members focuses on veterans, most of the military’s 1.3 million active-duty personnel are also eligible for tuition assistance, but restrictions mean many service members have to wait for college until they leave the military.... Read more»
Posted Jun 17, 2021, 11:35 am
Brooke Newman
/Cronkite News
The Brandon Act, named in memory of Brandon Caserta, a Navy veteran who died by suicide, would provide service members confidential access to mental health care without fear of rebuke or retaliation.... Read more»
Posted May 11, 2021, 2:11 pm
Rachel Stapholz
/Cronkite News
Five transgender veterans in Arizona speak on what it meant to serve in the military and witness the shifts in how their identities are viewed by the commander in chief, with the effects ranging from loss of status and benefits to traumatic experiences while in service, including sexual assault.... Read more»
Posted Oct 7, 2020, 10:47 am
Ray Alonzo
/Cronkite News
Kelly and McSally wielded the usual disdain of political opponents, accusing one another of misleading Arizonans while outlining their own familiar campaign stances in a debate that offered few surprises.... Read more»
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Posted May 15, 2020, 11:26 am
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
The U.S. Navy combat ship named for the former congresswoman from Tucson has been deployed in the Western Pacific, sailing off the coast of Malaysia as a show of force in a region seeing increased Chinese pressure.... Read more»
Posted Apr 5, 2020, 7:23 pm
T. Christian Miller & Megan Rose/ProPublica
In dismissing the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the Navy once again punished the messenger, a frontline leader brave enough to tell the unvarnished truth to superiors about a threat to his sailors.... Read more»
Posted Feb 16, 2020, 4:22 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
They were once 1,512. Now they are but two. Donald Stratton, who was among the 337 survivors of the attack on the USS Arizona, died Saturday, leaving just Lou Conter and Ken Potts still alive of the crew on the U.S. Navy battleship on Dec. 7, 1941.... Read more»
Posted Jan 21, 2020, 7:36 am
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
Among the thousands of sailors deploying to the Indo-Pacific with the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group is Tucson's Gerardo Valenzuela, a fire controlman aboard the USS Russell, a guided-missile destroyer.... Read more»
Posted Dec 23, 2019, 3:13 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
A new warship will soon be commissioned as the USS Arizona, the first U.S. Navy vessel to bear that name since the namesake battleship was sunk at Pearl Harbor in 1941.... Read more»
Posted Aug 27, 2019, 1:22 pm
Lindsay Walker
/Cronkite News
While former colleagues have added John McCain’s name to legislation and one Arizona district plans to name an elementary school for him, other tributes have stalled. Among those are a measure to name a human rights commission for the late senator.... Read more»
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Posted Apr 15, 2019, 5:25 pm
TucsonSentinel.com
Aviation Electrician's Mate 3rd Class Kevin Rodes, from Tucson, cleans an F/A-18E Super Hornet on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). ... Read more»
Posted Apr 5, 2019, 11:37 am
Andrew Howard
/Cronkite News
In a different year, U.S. Sen. Martha McSally might not have been on a stage at the U.S. Naval Academy telling college officials that they need to step up and do their part to end sexual assaults on their campuses.... Read more»
Posted Feb 11, 2019, 11:49 am
Nicole Ludden
/Cronkite News
A recent Supreme Court ruling is considered a major setback for transgender servicemembers, as well as a hindrance to the future of transgender individuals in the military.... Read more»
Posted Jan 27, 2019, 3:57 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
Training with attack aircraft in Tucson for the next two weeks are 14 Navy F/A-18s, giving Air Force pilots experience in defending themselves against fighter jets.... Read more»