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Service
The Navy’s top officer said sailors and their families should prepare for longer deployments until the service has a larger force and fleet. Chief of Naval Operations Adm.
Transition
Looking for a job can sometimes feel like you’re sending your application into the void. You craft the perfect 2-page resume, upload any required supporting documents, hit submit and then wait.
Benefits
Veterans are increasingly becoming prime targets for investment scams. Scammers often exploit the trust, camaraderie and sense of service that defines the Veteran community, using convincing tactics..
Health
From the comfort of home: A Veteran’s path to recovery through telehealth When Air Force Veteran Gerry Pennington began recovering from prostate removal surgery earlier this year, he found it...
Legacy
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Health
With Suicide Prevention Month occurring in September, the Veteran Resources Community Network (VRCN) partners are working together to help Veterans stay connected, find support and learn about...
Legacy
On July 20, 1966, U.S. Air Force Col. Norm McDaniel was shot down in North Vietnam. For a year and a half, his wife and two children had no idea if he was alive or dead.
Service
Close to 50,000 soldiers around the U.S. and overseas spent a weekend night sweating out a 12-mile march after a small change in an Army regulation allowed soldiers to earn a unique foreign...
Service
Holly Dailey grew up in a small coal-mining town in Pennsylvania as one of six kids; most of her firsthand knowledge of military life came from history books and movies, though her mother had served..
Service
(Cover Image by Melissa Ambrosini ) By the time Michael Sherbakov visited the tiny apartment he grew up in back in Moscow, it felt less like visiting an old home and more like just visiting a foreign.
Service
One night in a quiet Texas bedroom, the impact of war finally caught up with Le Roy Torres. His lungs, which used to let him run long distances, burned with every breath.
Family
Lori Simmons was a one-time military brat who became a military spouse for a time. As her marketing career took off, the military kept bringing her back, even when she thought that chapter was closed.
Legacy
David Higgins joined the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans (NCHV) in 2019. Though he doesn’t have a connection to the military, he has always had a passion for America’s veterans.
Legacy
At 12 years old, Dr. Lyla Kohistany’s future was supposed to end in Kabul as the wife of a 51-year-old stranger. Instead, her brother went to war for her with the help of the United States Navy.
Service
As Kenneth Fisher talks about the Fisher House Foundation , the conversation doesn’t start with the milestones or even numbers. It begins and ends with family. “The whole family serves,” he said.
Service
After 13 years as the spouse of a Navy SEAL, Amber Capone was looking forward to a quiet life in Texas. Instead, a lifetime of ghosts and war trauma threatened to take her husband, just as they were..
Transition
Richard Brookshire can tell you the cost of broken promises in numbers that will make your stomach drop. But before he helped launch the Black Veterans Project , he was once a military brat trying to.
Service
Sharene Brown is well known for her role at Five & Thrive —and for being married to the now-retired former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown.
Community
After 22 years in the Air Force and a medical retirement, Purple Heart recipient Jason “JD” David refused to let his story end in a recliner.
Legacy
On the morning of September 11, 2001, a 2-year-old girl and her parents boarded United Airlines Flight 175 in Boston. They were headed for a vacation at Disneyland in California before hijackers...
