Military

Prepare to be thrust into the vortex of military life when you enter Fort Myers Theatre or Arts Center Theatre on Marco Island for a performance of “A Few Good Men.” From the crisply pressed military uniforms to Spartan set, this production is all spit, polish and precision.

Belle Theatre's Peyton McCarthy commands the stage in Grounded as an F16 fighter pilot who is reassigned to fly drones from a windowless trailer in the desert outside Nevada after she becomes pregnant. McCarthy rises to the challenges presented by this ambitious one-woman show.

On Wednesday, a group of “elves” from Florida Power and Light Company teamed up with the Florida National Guard to help make the holidays for a U.S. Army veteran in Port Charlotte and her five-year-old son a little brighter.

Arts Bonita honored veterans with a Big Band concert featuring the South Florida Jazz Orchestra and Lisanne Lyons, a former United States Air Force Band vocalist.

Patrick Space Force Base in Brevard County has been named the “preferred” location for two parts of the growing U.S. Space Force — the Space Training and Readiness Command Headquarters and Space Delta 10, according to the U.S. Air Force.

China is seeking to regain what it once was until a few hundred years ago, the most powerful economic region in the world, said Daniel Franklin, the executive editor and acting U.S. editor of The Economist magazine.He spoke at the 3rd Annual Hanseatic League of Universities Conference at Florida Gulf Coast University on Tuesday afternoon. His topic: The world in 2050: Big Trends That Will Shape the Future.

Research done by America’s Warrior Partnership implies that former service members commit suicide at a rate 2.4 times greater than reported by the Department of Veterans Affairs. AWP has taken information from its Operation Deep Dive study and applied it to reach veterans before it’s too late. A senior analyst at the Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute said the AWP study is flawed and misleading.

North American Aerospace Defense Command conducted a live-fly air defense exercise over water, north of Key West and west of Everglades National Park Wednesday.

The museum's new space is its third home since 2009 and second after the COVID pandemic forced it out of Cape Coral due to finances.

An encore broadcast of our 2014 conversation about the unique contributions to defeating German forces in WWII by members of the Ghost Army. On Feb. 1, President Joe Biden signed into law the “Ghost Army Congressional Gold Medal Act,” to honor and recognize their contributions.