Veteran News
Legacy
Conditions at a cemetery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, recently sparked outrage among veterans and service members on social media following a post to the Army subreddit over the weekend that showed a...
Service
Serving in the Army wreaked havoc on Johnny Vargas’ body. In the past couple of years, doctors fused vertebrae in Vargas’ neck and spine in separate operations.
Service
Many private businesses offer veteran discounts on Veterans Day , holidays such as Memorial Day and Independence Day , or throughout the year.
Family
When my husband received orders for Guam, I sent my resume to every private school on the island. Thankfully, I was offered a teaching position, but it came with a staggering $15,000 pay cut.
Service
American service members have been awarded 202 Purple Hearts in the Iran war so far, officials told Task & Purpose, the vast majority to soldiers in the Army or Army Reserve .
Transition
Leaving military service is one of the biggest transitions you’ll ever make. You’ve led teams, managed complex operations, solved problems under pressure and developed valuable technical and...
Legacy
VA and the Veterans Day National Committee (VDNC) selected 48 Regional Sites in communities and non-profit organizations in 24 states as official partners to hold VA-approved Veterans Day observances.
Family
For almost 60 years, there’s been at least one trusted name in children’s educational entertainment. “Sesame Street” has pioneered using puppetry to explain the heaviest, most complex realities of...
Service
The Army’s plan to fix its barracks issues hinges on using cheaper, pre-assembled materials to design buildings that will last 25 years — half as long as its current barracks. The aim?
Legacy
By the time Jorge Barreto left Vietnam for the last time in 1970, he’d participated in more than 200 combat and aerial missions, was wounded five times, and received five Purple Hearts, two Silver...
Service
The planned execution of Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, Texas, will not be livestreamed, President Donald Trump announced Thursday.
Family
Latoya Lucas holds her daughter, Sanaa, before deploying to Iraq in 2003 with the 52nd Engineering Battalion. Sanaa and Latoya have a strong bond, and Latoya is grateful for all that her daughter has.
Family
His care meant everything. He wanted VA staff to know. John E. Wasson followed his older brother’s example and joined the Army in 1957, driven by a desire to serve his country.
Benefits
The Social Security Administration announced a 3.6% cost-of-living adjustment for 2027 on Wednesday, prompting questions from military service members, families and veterans about how they will be...
Service
Pistols are difficult personal defense weapons (PDW) to shoot. Unless you spend a lot of time and ammo on meaningful training, a high-stress shoot with a pistol can easily turn into spamming the...
Service
For some Veterans, service is a single chapter. For Martin Martinez, it’s a family inheritance that never really ended, it just changed instruments.
Service
A native of Montana, Jamie Fox is a Native American who served in the Air Force from 2007 to 2016. She was deployed to Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom and left the military at the rank..
Health
Photos courtesy of Ellen Schimmels I was lying on my rack in a crowded tent in Afghanistan, watching an old episode of Project Runway on my computer.
Service
The team of five Rangers was in the final stretch of an 18-mile ruck march when Staff Sgt. Colin Doyle started feeling the cramps. “Mile 17 and my hamstrings started to lock up,” Doyle said this week.
Benefits
Social Security beneficiaries, military retirees and people receiving veterans benefits will see a 3.6% cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, in 2027.
