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For the second time in five months, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to wade into an internal Army flight safety investigation late Thursday, tweeting support for eight AH-64 Apache pilots and.
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Two Republican House members have asked Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins to review the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ authorization to help veterans file disability claims following the group’s use.
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Vets4Warriors and Worried About a Veteran (WAV) are partnering to support Veterans and their loved ones through the Key into Care initiative, giving away 250 free Key into Care packages in honor of...
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The Marine Corps is standing up two new organizations focused on drone warfare at its major training bases on the East and West coasts.
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The world’s oldest commissioned warship is still afloat — thanks to a forest in Indiana. The USS Constitution, named by George Washington and built with copper bolts forged by Paul Revere, was...
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The Department of Veterans Affairs’ disability claims backlog dropped below 70,000 this week for the first time in six years, a milestone the VA hasn’t seen since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“God help us if we go down here,” William Drager, a 25-year-old tail gunner from Hackettstown, N.J., wrote to his family in the late summer of 1944.
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Jacob Weber, who received a $30,000 scholarship from DAV in 2023, recently graduated from Michigan State University with a bachelor’s degree in supply chain management.
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A rule created 75 years ago bars military members from suing the government while still on active duty, even in cases when one service member sexually assaults another.
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The Department of Defense policy that dropped 180 faiths from its list of recognized religions is bad news for Unitarians, Druids, and dozens of other belief systems.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that "potentially millions" more veterans or their survivors could be eligible to receive health care or financial compensation for toxic exposure-related.
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Independent living community brings VA support closer to Veteran and caregiver Community Residential Care helps Veterans who can’t safely live on their own, but who also don’t need a nursing home,...
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Hamlet Avagyan left his native Armenia for Ukraine in 2015 to fight against Russian military and pro-Russian separatists. Avagyan committed for three months, yet he never left.
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Former members of DAV Chapter 6 in Sacramento gather outside their longtime headquarters. (Photo by Paul Kitagaki Jr. for the Sacramento Bee) This story was published in partnership with The...
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Sailors whose medical conditions make daily shaving painful, or even leave scars, now face being separated if they cannot be clean-shaven after a year of treatment, Navy officials have announced.
Legacy
On July 25, 1968, Leonard Louis Alvarado enlisted in the U.S. Army and by August 1969 he was a Specialist 4 and a rifleman in Company D, 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division...
Legacy
On July 25, 1968, Leonard Louis Alvarado enlisted in the U.S. Army and by August 1969 he was a Specialist 4 and a rifleman in Company D, 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division...
Legacy
On July 25, 1968, Leonard Louis Alvarado enlisted in the U.S. Army and by August 1969 he was a Specialist 4 and a rifleman in Company D, 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division...
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Any veteran entrepreneur in business long enough probably feels like they’ve made every mistake in the book and paid for all of them. Chances are also good that they keep going anyway.
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“The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776,” by John Trumbull. A severely wounded James Monroe (on the ground, left of center) is depicted as being held by Dr. John Riker.
