Veteran News
Service
Just before the long July 4th weekend, 586 Air Force staff sergeants in the service’s largest career field were told they were being promoted, a moment that is traditionally a cause for celebration...
Health
In Navajo Nation, VA trainees close the distance to care For rural Veterans living on or near the Navajo Nation reservation, seeking care has often meant hours on the road.
Advocacy
Country music legend George Jones had a lifelong struggle with alcoholism that was as legendary as his voice. Born among the East Texas oil fields in 1931, Jones gravitated to music to escape his...
Service
Terrence “Terry” Munoz hadn’t competed in powerlifting in more than 20 years. Life had brought injuries, retirement, family, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and two battles with cancer.
Service
President Donald Trump said he considers the ceasefire with Iran “over” after the U.S. military launched strikes against more than 80 targets on Tuesday in response to recent attacks against...
Legacy
Named after a mythological one-eyed figure, the USS Cyclops just disappeared. The U.S. Navy bulk cargo ship departed Barbados for Baltimore on a scheduled nine-day voyage.
Family
Photos courtesy of S. Renée Phillips There was no celebration when my mother learned she was pregnant—only a conversation.
Service
Before our family experienced our first deployment, I assumed the hardest part would begin after my husband left — once the house was quieter and routines changed.
Service
Navy officials have identified Cmdr. Gabriel Edwards, commanding officer of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 5, as the sailor who went missing after an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter from the aircraft...
Transition
From application advice to insights into day-to-day work at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Talk About It Tuesday (TAIT) is back to help viewers learn more about VA and how to better...
Service
Veterans Affairs Under Secretary for Health John Bartrum left his job Monday after less than seven months on the job. Bartrum, who announced his resignation to staff June 30, did not provide a...
Service
The Army rolled out new body composition standards Tuesday with requirements that mostly match existing Pentagon directives that a soldier’s waist measurement can be only slightly wider than half of..
Service
The commissary at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, had an unexpected customer over the July 4th weekend when a bear dropped by and began browsing the store’s produce section.
Community
Veterans leave the military with discipline, leadership, resilience and a deep commitment to service. But when the uniform comes off, many ask, “What’s next?
Service
The Jeep® brand is one that is nearly synonymous with military history, dating back to June 1940 and the outbreak of World War II when the U.S.
Legacy
You can spot it from across any airport, slung over one shoulder, listing the person carrying it about fifteen degrees off vertical. The military duffel is not elegant.
Service
A Polish defense official said the U.S. military will resume rotating troops into Poland in the “coming weeks,” two months after the Pentagon abruptly canceled an Army deployment of nearly 4,000...
Community
Whether it was playing table tennis at local Boys & Girls Clubs in his hometown of Hampton, Virginia, or pickup basketball games at the community center, David Hill has never been one to shy away...
Legacy
Behind bars in Atlanta for bank robbery in the 1950s, Whitey Bulger became depressed and pondered thoughts of suicide. The infamous crime boss began seeing things that weren’t there and hearing...
Service
When my husband received orders for recruiting duty , no one congratulated us. They apologized instead, and issued warnings. “Prepare for the worst.” “Hours are so long and you will never see him.
