Veteran News
Service
Veterans who served from the mid-1980s up to today will likely be familiar with the iconic 9mm Beretta M9 . Despite the formal adoption of the SIG Sauer M17/M18 handgun as the official U.S.
Health
Supporting diabetic Veterans facing food insecurity At the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System , a new pilot program is taking shape to assist diabetic Veterans who are facing a growing challenge: food...
Community
For families of severely disabled veterans, service doesn’t end when the uniform comes off. Spouses often spend years as caregivers, advocates and steady partners through the lasting effects of...
Legacy
In 1941, the United States Embassy gave Mildred Gillars a way out. She didn’t take it. Gillars worked for Third Reich Radio in Germany, and as her broadcasts became more anti-American and...
Health
A Washington inmate used jail phones to call VA medical centers and convince staff members to hand over personal information of seriously ill veterans receiving care at the hospitals.
Service
Before he served as a combat medic and sniper on Navy SEAL teams in the Middle East, before he ever thought of becoming an officer or going to medical school, and before he even dreamed he'd become a.
Advocacy
As supporters of the Taking Care of America’s Veterans Act defend the legislation as the best chance in years to pass more than 60 veterans bills, the committee’s top Democrat says Congress should be.
Service
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a new program to screen troops 30 years and older for testosterone deficiency. The new screening will be conducted annually as part of service members’...
Service
The Marine Corps has denounced comments made by a Marine veteran running for Congress who posted a video of himself in uniform and made threatening comments directed at President Donald Trump.
Benefits
Between 1948 and 1958, Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands was the site of 43 nuclear bomb tests, including the U.S. military’s first hydrogen bomb detonation.
Family
A premature newborn with elevated lead levels, a child who missed nearly half the school year because of mold-related illness, and families reporting electrical fires, flooding and cockroaches...
Legacy
Help improve health outcomes for Veterans The Million Veteran Program (MVP) is a historic effort : the largest health research program in the world affiliated with a healthcare system, and the first..
Transition
While navigating the claims and benefits process is critical, it’s only part of a successful transition out of the military.
Service
The active duty Army likes to poke fun at the soldiers in the National Guard and Reserve components, sometimes calling them “Weekend Warriors.
Legacy
Photos courtesy of Stanley Ross More than five decades after 1968 , an especially violent year of the war, the rain, hunger, and calamity in Vietnam’s Central Highlands remain etched in my mind.
Service
Pop quiz, military edition: your spouse is deployed to a remote area with few communication options when your father-in-law has a heart attack. What do you do next?
Health
The Departments of Veterans Affairs and Health and Human Services signed an agreement Monday to increase coordination on research into psychedelic drugs for treating veterans’ mental health disorders.
Service
The Army spent almost half-a-billion dollars on a Texas ammunition factory to restock the military’s supply of 155 mm artillery shells, but the facility has yet to produce a single round in two...
Service
About 4,000 soldiers assigned to Hawaii are in barracks without central air conditioning due to mechanical failures at a water treatment plant, which left only one pump able to provide water to...
Service
The U.S. military command that oversees forces across Africa will establish a “drone academy” and training center in Morocco to begin getting African partners up to date with their use in...
