April 2025 – Thousands of veterans across the country may have been underpaid on their disability compensation due to a critical error in how the Department of Veterans Affairs processed PACT Act...
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Transition
With almost a quarter of all Veterans in the United States residing in rural communities, ensuring they receive quality health care close to home is more important than ever.
Service
Colby Barrett went to scout sniper school because that’s where his Marines were headed. Years later, that training took him to a front-line unit in northern Ukraine to shoot alongside one of the...
Service
Air defense artillery soldiers who successfully engage at least five hostile targets in a combat zone could get a new skill badge, Task & Purpose has confirmed.
Benefits
Imagine Mary, a Veteran, getting a text that looks like it’s from VA. It warns of an issue with her benefits. The message tells her to click a link, verify her personal information and enter a code...
Community
Chris Cathers looks a little nervous in the photograph, which, say the people who knew him, was not typical for the former Green Beret and veterans advocate.
Service
As U.S. Marines desperately crawled, ran and slipped toward the entrenched Japanese on Iwo Jima in February 1945, U.S. Naval and Marine planners were met with another pressing issue: how to get the...
Service
Versatile actor and U.S. Air Force veteran Tom Skerritt, who starred in the war comedy M*A*S*H and the action drama Top Gun , has died at the age of 93.
Service
An Air Force unit that trains special operations airmen suspended rappelling and ropes training after an instructor in the squadron died during a demonstration at a college football game in San...
Family
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Health
Making housing and support easier to choose We recently explored a common misconception about the homeless: That homelessness is a choice.
Service
A White House-appointed commission of military spouses floated the idea of cutting or eliminating the tolls that some service members pay when commuting to work.
Legacy
VA’s Office of Research and Development recently published three News Briefs highlighting findings on opioid overdoses, a potential new atherosclerosis treatment and lung cancer surgery.
