Dover Air Force Base News

In a ninth-grade literature class, I was assigned a poem that didn't make any sense to me, although I was intrigued by its title.

As we pause to remember those who died for our freedoms, we are faced with the possibility of a 'forever war' Barack Obama salutes the coffin of a US soldier killed in Afghanistan at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, October 2009.

A shadow of uneasiness fell upon Stephanie Fisher that night as she talked with her son while he prepared to leave for Afghanistan on his third combat tour.

Maintainers at Robins have just completed an especially challenging overhaul and repair on a C-5M, and officials say the experience will help with future aircraft.

Troops in the nation's longest war - Afghanistan - were often just kids when it started.

A New Castle, Del., man is in the hospital tonight, finding out the hard way why it's not a good idea to pick your neighbor's trash, even with permission.

NEW CASTLE, Del. -- A Delaware man was severely injured Tuesday morning when a box a neighbor had put out on the curb for trash pickup exploded, officials said.

SEAFORD , Del.- It is being called one of the deadliest tornadoes this country has ever seen.

Update : The Defense Department on Friday afternoon confirmed that Army Spec. Mitchell Daehling and two others died May 14 "of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device." Daehling and Spc.

An Army team transfers the remains of Spc. Thomas P. Murach May 7 at Dover Air Force Base, Del.

A Dalton man is mourning the death of his soldier son who was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.

Grief and politics don't mix. When raw, aching grief and the dirtiest kind of politics meet, a hot volcano of pain and outrage erupts that is unstoppable.

Family members tell us his parents are on their way to Dover Air Force Base right now to meet the plane carrying his casket.

KHQ.COM - The funeral for Capt. Tyler Voss will be held in his hometown of Boerne Texas on Friday April 17th at 4pm at St.

Editor's Note: This is a first-hand account by NMJ analyst and correspondent Robert McReynolds, who attended the May 9th press conference at The National Press Club.

Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, right, stands with his hand on his heart as an Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of 1st Lt.

Only once in history has an intercontinental ballistic missile - an ICBM - been launched from an aircraft in flight.

COLVILLE, Wash. On Monday, the 11-year-old boy charged in a February plot to kill fellow classmates at Fort Colville Elementary School, was ordered to undergo a mental evaluation.

The KHQ translator that serves the Lewiston/Clarkston area, will soon be upgraded to digital.

Some big decisions that could help decide the future of Spokane's Fairchild Air Force Base are expected in coming weeks.