Steve Walsh
Military and Veterans Reporter, Norfolk, VirginiaSteve Walsh is the military and veterans reporter at WHRO in Norfolk.
Before joining WHRO, Steve covered military issues for KPBS radio and television in San Diego, hosted a daily public affairs show on Lakeshore Public Radio, and was an original host and producer for the storytelling project Vocalo.org at WBEZ in Chicago. His work often is heard on NPR. He also authored the podcast Free the Pendleton 14.
At KPBS, Steve won numerous awards from the Society Professional Journalists San Diego Chapter and the San Diego Press Club. In 2022, the Military Reporters and Editors Association awarded him "Best Audio Series" for his coverage of the Marines halting efforts to integrate women at boot camp. As a print reporter, Steve embedded twice with the Indiana National Guard during the Iraq War.
Steve is a graduate of Indiana State University.
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Thousands of military personnel were deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border in the fall of last year. At the time President Donald Trump said their purpose... -
During the eight months they've been deployed at the U.S.-Mexico border, military personnel have had little direct contact with the people at the center… -
President Trump is considering sending a new round of troops to the southern border. The military withdrew some service members from the border in… -
The VA fully implemented the new law in February, hoping to clear up a backlog of appeals claims that numbers in the hundreds of thousands.The Department… -
In 1976, 13 Marines were jailed after they burst into a room at Camp Pendleton and attacked the men inside. The attackers thought they were confronting Ku…
