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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) -- All three people who died in Saturday night's double murder-suicide by the 7-Eleven on Effingham Street were all members of the military. The victims, 19-year-old Shianne Soles and 23-year-old Meaghan Burns, worked at Naval Station Medical Center in Portsmouth. Police believe the shooter, 22-year-old Donovan Moora, killed them before killing himself. He was stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. This is a hard situation for everyone involved. While police are still investigating the details that led up to the incident, friends and family of the victims and shooter say this was totally unexpected. Moora's brother...

The Pentagon is deploying 100 troops from a special Marine response force to West Africa to help fight the Ebola outbreak. "These personnel will arrive in Senegal tonight and in Liberia tomorrow," said Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby at a briefing on Wednesday. The 100 troops — mostly Marines, along with some Navy corpsmen — are part of a force of up to 3,600 U.S. troops that could deploy to West Africa to help efforts to stem the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. The outbreak has so far claimed more than 3,000 lives and could infect 1.4...

"When President Bush made the same mistake during his campaign for President in 2000, he was roundly criticized as unintelligent."

WASHINGTON, March 12, 2009 – The commander of U.S. Central Command last night praised the Army medics and Navy corpsmen whose courage on the battlefield protects the lives of fellow servicemembers. U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Stephanie Cates receives the Angels of the Battlefield Award from U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, commander, U.S. Central Command, and U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, during a dinner in honor of military medics and corpsman at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., March 11, 2009. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Suzanne M. Day  (Click photo for...

During the summer of 1982, in the wake of a presidential directive, Marines went ashore at Beirut, Lebanon. Fifteen months later, on 23 October 1983, extremists struck the first major blow against American forces – starting this long war on terrorism. On that Sunday morning, a suicide bomber drove an explosive laden truck into the headquarters of Battalion Landing Team 1/8, destroying the building and killing 241 Marines and corpsmen. Extremists have attacked our Nation, at home and abroad, numerous times since that fateful day in Beirut. Their aim has always been the same – to kill as many innocent...

WASHINGTON, March 8, 2007 – The Armed Services YMCA paid tribute to military medics and corpsmen here last night during its first Angels of the Battlefield awards dinner. Recipients of the Armed Services YMCA Angels of the Battlefield award pose for a photo with Marine Gen. James T. Conway (far right), commandant of the Marine Corps, and Eugene E. Habiger (far left), chairman of the Armed Services YMCA. The Armed Services YMCA honored military medics and corpsmen in Washington on March 7 during its Angels of the Battlefield awards dinner. Photo by Steven Donald Smith  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution...

HADITHA — When Sgt. Nathaniel Tatum heard a loud “Boom” while on a security patrol through the windswept streets of this Euphrates River city, he didn’t think about how to react to the improvised explosive device (IED) blast – he simply “let the training take over.” After two Marines were wounded in an IED blast, Jan. 18, 2007, Tatum and fellow Marines along with the squad corpsman, who the Marines call “Doc”, provided immediate medical attention to the injured Marines who would have been in “bad shape” without immediate attention, according to HM1(FMF/CAC) Patrick W. Horgan, independent duty corpsman with...

Every single Soldier, Sailor, Airman and Marine, every man and woman who serves this great nation, deserves our eternal thanks, admiration and respect. The difference between our current engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war in Vietnam is this: we, as a nation, have matured enough to recognize that we need to support our men and women in service: no matter our political position on the conflict. .....While no segment of our military population deserves more or less credit and thanks than any other, we might take a moment to recognize the valor, selfless giving and dedication exhibited by...

CAMP AL QA’IM, Iraq (July 24, 2006) -- Iraqi nurses and Iraqi Army corpsmen will soon be able to treat patients for diseases caused by lack of clean drinking water, thanks to U.S. military physicians serving in this region along the Iraqi-Syrian border. Navy doctors provided the Iraqis with two days of training which will enable them to treat patients for parasites – such as hook worms – which have caused a variety of health problems in locals here, to include mental retardation and anemia in children. The Iraqi medical personnel were also given training in crucial life-saving skills for...

AL ASAD, Iraq (June 26, 2006) -- Navy corpsmen here were on hand to see some of their own promoted, receive their Fleet Marine Force pins and celebrate the 108th birthday of the Hospital Corps on the flight line at Al Asad, June 17. Corpsmen Sean Aldridge and Elaine Kelly with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 252, Marine Aircraft Group 16 (Reinforced), 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, and Jules Degraff with Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2, MAG-16 (Reinforced), were promoted from the ranks of petty officer third class to petty officer second class. They also received their Fleet Marine Force pins...

U.S. military medics and corpsmen are on the front lines with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the troops have confidence in their abilities and in the standard of care throughout the entire military medical system, a top U.S. general said Tuesday in Washington. "Every troop who goes into combat has tremendous respect for the medics who go forward with them, and these medics display the same courage and bravery as the rest of the troops," said Marine Gen. Robert Magnus, assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, at the State of the Military Health System 2006 Annual Conference. "I'm talking...

TACOMA, Wash. - Robert Eugene Bush, who received a Medal of Honor for bravery in tending to the wounded while under enemy fire at Okinawa, has died at age 79. Bush was one of Washington state's last living recipients of the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor, from World War II . He died Tuesday. Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, who wrote about Bush in his best-seller "The Greatest Generation," left a voicemail for the family after hearing the news. "He was one of my very favorite people," Brokaw said. "He was a great man. He was...

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq (Nov. 10, 2005) -- While sitting down for lunch in the chow hall here Nov. 3, corpsmen assigned to Combat Logistics Battalion 8 Base Aid Station recognized Marines they treated in past combat situations. One corpsman pointed out an everyday Marine in line for chow who he had treated. “I’ve already taken care of three guys on three different convoys where an improvised explosive device exploded,” said Seaman Apprentice Versean Taylor, a corpsman assigned to CLB-8 BAS, 2nd Marine Logistics Group (FWD). “I love taking care of my Marines; they take care of me and I take...

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq (Oct. 21, 2005) -- “Corpsman up!” is the first thing that comes to a Marine’s mind when one of his buddies is wounded. With the Navy medical personnel in the battalion spread out over the unit’s area of operation, the Marines of 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, know help is close by if someone gets hurt. “Any slow days are good days at the Battalion Aid Station,” said Navy Lt. Craig C. Benson, the battalion medical officer. With a battalion of Marines to take care of, there is never a day when there isn’t at least one...

FALLUJAH, Iraq -- For three weeks, my FOX News team has been immersed in little more than what's been happening around us. Memorial Day isn't, as they say over here, on our radar screens. The soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines we've been covering and living with in Al Anbar Province have been focused on chasing terrorists, avoiding IEDs and staying alive. They call it situational awareness -- being alert to only the friendly and enemy situation in the immediate vicinity is an absolute necessity for these young Americans in harm's way in this hot, dusty and dangerous place. And because...

July 21, 2004, 8:36 a.m.Hey, Sailors! A fuller look at the servicemen in Iraq. By W. Thomas Smith Jr. Stories from the front are often misreported: Not intentionally, but combat correspondents often apply the title "soldier" or even "Marine" loosely to those engaged in the fighting on the ground in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, many of the combatants on the ground are neither soldiers nor Marines, but sailors who have been directly involved in some of the most bitter ground combat in the ongoing war on terror. For instance, when elements of the 4th Marine Regiment were ambushed...

Story Number: NNS040326-14 Release Date: 3/26/2004 8:49:00 PM By Marine Lance Cpl. John E. Lawson Jr., Combined Joint Task Force-180 Public Affairs KABUL PROVINCE, Afghaniston (NNS) -- Navy corpsmen from 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines conducted a medical civil affairs program (MedCap) March 7-8. “During the two-day MedCap, a Navy lieutenant and four corpsmen treated about 160 patients at a local hospital,” said Lt. Kenny Uy, assistant battalion surgeon. “The Sailors saw Afghan patients with ailments ranging from coughs and colds to worms and nutritional deficiencies.” Patients also sought care for other ailments, including arthritis and blindness. While supplies and time...

ABOARD THE USNS COMFORT (AP) -- Navy nurse Kimberlee Flannery came to the Persian Gulf expecting to help wounded Americans. Instead, she has been caring mostly for injured enemy soldiers. Flannery admits she was "very apprehensive" when her first Iraqi soldier came aboard this U.S. Navy hospital ship. But any misgivings she might have had quickly melted away. "Then you see the pain and the agony of the people, and that whole mindset is erased," said the 23-year-old from Chillicote, Ohio. So far, the patient roster aboard the USNS Comfort off the coast of Bahrain, has been the product of...