Veteran News
Legacy
Kicking off the historic Independence Day weekend’s festivities for the nation’s Semiquincentennial, “A Capitol Fourth: 250th weekend celebration” will be broadcast live and streamed nationwide from..
Service
Marines deployed to Haiti found themselves under fire and shooting back, several times last year, their commander recently told reporters at a media roundtable.
Service
The son of a politician, William “Billy” Mitchell grew up in Wisconsin as the oldest of 10 children. In such a crowded household, Mitchell learned early on to speak up for himself and his beliefs.
Health
(Photo courtesy of U.S. Army) It’s easy for Ron Brown to remember when his health problems first began. It was early March 1991, and Brown’s Army unit was in Khamisiyah, where Iraqi forces had...
Family
A Persian Gulf War veteran with Alzheimer’s disease was pushed, punched and shoved violently into his wheelchair in a state-run veterans home this spring — allegedly by his caretaker, a man who also..
Service
The order had already come down. The assault on a fortified Mahdi Army position in the Iraqi city of Karbala was off. It was August 2004. Army Col.
Service
The U.S. Naval Academy is bringing back a requirement for incoming female students to cut their hair below the chin. As the new freshmen arrive in Annapolis, Maryland, for Induction Day, the start of.
Family
CHAMPVA and Tricare are both federal government health care programs tied to military service. They are run by different federal agencies, cover different groups of people and operate on different...
Community
ERLANGER, Ky. – DAV (Disabled American Veterans) announced the renewal of its partnership with T-Mobile, along with a $50,000 contribution benefiting DAV’s caregiver programming.
Service
The Pentagon has partially backpedaled on its voluntary flu vaccine policy, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced in April, handing at least some control of vaccine policy back to the...
Health
The Department of Veterans Affairs will spend $4.8 billion in the 2026 fiscal year to modernize, repair and upgrade health care facilities across the country, the largest single-year infrastructure...
Service
Navy Cmdr. John Rodgers and his four-person crew didn’t have much time left. It didn’t start out that way. They were aboard PN-9 No.
Health
Add color to your plate They say “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” But what about vegetables? They’re full of nutrients, add color and flavor to meals and are low in calories.
Service
U.S. military leaders have repeatedly tried to assure troops and the American public that artificial intelligence, or AI, is not going to replace human beings as the final decision-makers on when to..
Transition
The Veteran Fire Corps (VFC) program provides training, certifications and on-the-job experience for Veterans aged 18-35 who are interested in entering careers and gaining experience in wildland...
Service
Walk into any commercial gym, anytime, anywhere, and as you scan the main area, you begin to realize you are watching something unfold, a slow-motion tragedy lit by fluorescent lights: People chasing.
Health
Illustration by Hrisanthi Pickett I tried to schoolyard-taunt an AI language model once. My wife wasn’t home. I was bored and had to find another outlet for my childish male energy.
Service
In the five years since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, military households have adjusted to life at a different pace, without the perpetual combat deployments of Operation Enduring Freedom and.
Service
Gen. Christopher Donahue, the top Army general in Europe and Africa, will be stepping down. The news was first reported by The Atlantic’s Nancy A. Youssef and Missy Ryan .
Health
The Department of Veterans Affairs has disclosed 367 artificial intelligence use cases operating across the agency, including 215 classified as high-impact systems supporting healthcare , benefits...
