SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Navy SEAL candidate who died just hours after completing the grueling Hell Week test was identified Sunday as a 24-year-old sailor who joined the military last year. The Navy says Seaman Kyle Mullen died at a San Diego area hospital on Friday after he and another SEAL trainee reported experiencing…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The visitation is today for a former Navy Seal from St. Louis who was killed in Syria. Scott Wirtz was one of four Americans killed in a suicide bombing last month. The visitation will be held from noon until 8 p.m. at Ortmann Funeral Home in Creve Coeur. An additional visitation will…
By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA , Associated Press MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — Authorities overseeing the rescue operation for 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in northern Thailand said they have a “limited amount of time” to get them out, as they raced against worsening weather and lessening oxygen underground.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Republican gubernatorial candidate Eric Greitens often recounts how he volunteered in Bosnia helping children separated from their families by a horrific ethnic war. But the refugee camps he visited as a college student in summer 1994 actually were in neighboring Croatia. The discrepancy is notable because Greitens’ campaign is…
WASHINGTON (AP) – A senior U.S. military officer says the Navy SEAL killed during a firefight in Iraq Tuesday was part of a quick reaction force that moved in to help American military advisers who came under Islamic State attack. Army Col. Steve Warren says Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Keating was shot during…
