Operation Helping Hand recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. ...more

June 17, 2009

Somali pirates have attacked and damaged an American ship carrying humanitarian aid, but the ship and crew are safe under Navy escort. ...more

April 14, 2009

Retired Navy Capt. Robert J. Silah recently presented a plaque to Sheriff David Gee for support offered by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office to the active-duty wounded and injured at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center. Silah is president of the Tampa Military Officers Association of America and chairman of Operation Helping Hand, a special project of the Tampa chapter of the MOAA. ...more

April 8, 2009

SIESTA KEY - A simple act of paying respect to the flag and the men and women who served in uniform turned retired Navy Capt. Ralph Styles into something of a folk hero. ...more

October 9, 2008

A military jury on Wednesday found a former driver for Osama bin Laden guilty of supporting terrorism but not of conspiring in terrorist attacks, handing the Bush administration a partial victory in the first U.S. war crimes trial in a half century. ...more

August 7, 2008

Almost half of Ivonne Thompson's three-year marriage has been spent at hospitals helping care for her husband, who was seriously wounded in Iraq last year. ...more

August 5, 2008

Anthony Thompson, known as "Doc," received a promotion to petty officer second class while surrounded by members of other services, Navy officers and family. During much of the ceremony, A.J. sat in his lap. ...more

August 4, 2008

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has given "outstanding support to Operation Helping Hand and the active-duty wounded and injured at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center," said retired Army Lt. Col. Robert F. Sawallesh of Valrico, Operation Helping Hand vice chairman. ...more

May 10, 2008

They weren't your typical snowbirds. They didn't come to Tampa to relax on a beach. And they're nowhere close to retirement. ...more

May 4, 2008

For a couple days this week, some of the world's top military leaders will turn part of the Don CeSar Beach Resort into a military outpost for a series of private meetings. ...more

February 12, 2008