Thousands gathered at Charlotte Motor Speedway Saturday for a Vietnam Veterans celebration. A special recognition show aired on WITN and stations across the state.

The Pentagon said that 29-year-old Staff Sgt. Joseph D'Augustine of Waldwick, N.J., died Tuesday. The military says his unit was conducting combat operations in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan.

U.S. troops in Afghanistan are being guarded more closely and are taking other steps to protect themselves from attacks by Afghan troops, the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, said Wednesday.

Three Virginia-based Navy ships have set out on a regularly-scheduled deployment. Accompanying the sailors will be the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, based at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

A Marine private first class is out on bond at this morning, facing felony charges for running from authorities this weekend.

The wife of a U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians defended her husband in an interview set to air on NBC's Today show this morning, saying she finds the charges "unbelievable."

While we've seen more and more Marines return from the battle lines recently, but there are thousands still heading out to support operations overseas.

The United States has paid $50,000 in compensation for each Afghan killed in the shooting spree attributed to a U.S. soldier in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official and a community elder said Sunda

It was a happy homecoming at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro Friday as the final squadron of F-15-E Strike Eagles came home from Afghanistan.

A dozen fighter jets and the pilots and weapons officers who operate them are returning to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro.

An outspoken Marine critical of President Barack Obama says the Marine Corps is moving to kick him out.

The job market in this country has been gradually improving, except for some veterans: A new report finds that the situation has actually gotten a little worse for recent veterans who are trying to find work.

As Robert Bales sat in an isolated cell in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Saturday, divergent pictures emerged of the Army staff sergeant accused of gunning down 16 civilians in an Afghan war zone.

Robert Bales was the father who joined his two young children for playtime in the yard, a career soldier who greeted neighbors warmly but was guarded when talking about the years he spent away at war.

The top U.S. commander in Helmand Province and his British deputy were with the U.S. Marines that an Afghan man tried to run down as they waited for Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to arrive in southern Afghanistan.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he is at the "the end of the rope" because of the lack of U.S. cooperation into a probe of an American soldier's alleged killing spree.

You have an opportunity this weekend to help fulfill a dying wish for a local veteran.

Nearly one week after the massacre in Afghanistan that claimed the lives of 16 civilians, we are expecting to learn the name of the soldier accused in those killings today.

Military bases in Eastern Carolina are going to take the biggest brunt of personnel cuts in the Marine Corps over the next five years. Reports say 7,900 troops will be cut from Camp Lejeune, New River and Cherry Point.

Leaders of the United States and Britain outlined plans Wednesday to shift the NATO war effort in Afghanistan toward a back-seat advisory role while Afghan forces increasingly take the lead, but stressed that the two nations remain committed to the mission there.

The Pentagon says an Afghan drove an apparently stolen vehicle onto the ramp area of a British airfield in southern Afghanistan and into a ditch, where it exploded in flames, about the same time U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's aircraft was landing.

The Senate Judiciary Committee heard from Jerry Ensminger, a retired Camp Lejeune Marine whose 9-year-old daughter died of leukemia in 1985.

Militants have attacked an Afghan government delegation visiting the site in one of the two villages in southern Afghanistan where a U.S. soldier is suspected of killing 16 civilians.

A soldier suspected of massacring 16 Afghan villagers Sunday comes from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, one of the largest military installations in the U.S. -- and one that has seen its share of controversies and violence in the past few years.

The militant group said in a statement posted on their website Monday that "American savages" committed the "blood-soaked and inhumane crime" in Panjwai district.