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The Cost of Skipping Sick Call: How Active-Duty Service Members Can Protect Future VA Claims

Tricare After Active Duty: What Actually Happens to Your Health Insurance

Here’s Why January Is the Best Time to File Your VA Disability Claim

EMDR: The PTSD Treatment Many Veterans Don't Know the VA Offers

Why the Winter Blues Make PTSD Symptoms Worse and What Veterans Can Do About It

A Look Back at Our Most Impactful News Stories of 2025

Illustration by Hrisanthi Pickett

Veterans Often Overlook These VA Disability Claims: Secondary Conditions Explained

Reset Your Job Search Mindset for the New Calendar Year

When Does the VA Cover Care at Non-VA Facilities?

When Home Feels Half Empty: Military Families Navigate Holiday Deployments

A Look Back At Some of Our Favorite Reflections of 2025

There are many ways to measure this year’s “top” essays: Which ones garnered the most readers? Which ones sparked the liveliest conversations? Those metrics count, of course.

Career Advice: How to Defend Your Position Without Being Defensive

What's Open at VA During the Holidays? Here's What Veterans Need to Know

Military Families Finally Get More Money During Deployments

Q&A: How Did the U.S. Patrol the Caribbean for Drug Smuggling Before It Started Blowing Up Boats?

A small boat crew from Coast Guard cutter Donald Horsley pursues suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea, Oct. 3, 2018. (U.S.

VA Doctors Can Finally Look You in the Eye, Thanks to a New AI Tool

We Pined for the Comforts of Home. We Got Tube Socks and Old Candy for Christmas Instead

Photo courtesy of Zach West. Illustration by Hrisanthi Pickett

Congress Pushes VA to Expand Use of AI to Flag Suicide Risk

Is That Job Posting Real? 10 Ways to Spot a Scam

Why Veterans’ 2.8% Disability Pay Raise Feels Smaller Than It Should