Veteran News
Service
Efforts are underway to expand housing for homeless veterans at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ 388-acre west Los Angeles campus , but a lack of security and services threaten the plan to build a.
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A Navy sailor will be paid $60,000 by a Florida property management company that obtained an “unlawful” eviction notice against him, according to federal prosecutors.
Service
On March 12, 2026, Letterkenny Army Depot confirmed the death of a soldier during training that morning. An investigation by Tasmin Mahfuz of WGAL, an NBC affiliate in Lancaster, Penn.
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Those looking to take on the Army’s infamously difficult Ranger School will have to start by fixing bayonets, then run through smoke, razor wire, and machine gun bursts, hop in a trench, and stab the.
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The Defense Department’s $26.8 billion military construction request for fiscal 2027 is needed to build unaccompanied housing and protect installations to ensure the security of U.S.
Benefits
When a veteran passed away in 2023 from heart disease, their family asked the Department of Veterans Affairs for service-connected benefits they believed their death triggered.
Family
Service is often described as a calling, but for the Pineda family, it’s a foundation. From the front lines of Vietnam to the halls of the White House and the flight lines of the Air Force, the...
Health
Why housing stability is essential to mental health treatment and recovery for Veterans experiencing homelessness. Among Veterans receiving VA care, those experiencing homelessness or enrolled in...
Benefits
Veterans with a disability rating might have seen the news that a new bill in the Senate would increase their disability payments.
Legacy
As I reflect on my early days working at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, out of all the colleagues and volunteers I’ve worked with, one name stands out: Duery Felton.
Health
Under medical supervision, Galloway undergoes ibogaine treatment. On a quiet morning in Cancún, Mexico, with monitors tracing the rhythm of his heart, Noah Galloway leaned back and prepared to...
Service
In 1857, unrest surrounding elections in Washington, D.C., was so out of control that President James Buchanan called in the Marine Corps .
Service
The Army recovered the body of the second of two soldiers who went missing this month after falling into the ocean while training in Morocco. U.S.
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The Army canceled a major deployment of a cavalry unit to Europe, just as soldiers began rolling out. A U.S. official confirmed to Task & Purpose that the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry.
Service
An airman who set himself on fire two years ago in Washington, D.C. to protest Israeli military actions in Gaza did so with a clear head, and not because of a mental health crisis, his wing commander.
Health
Virtual eye care At 56, Air Force Veteran Ben Parks thought he had seen it all when it came to eye care. For 27 years, his community eye care providers had been monitoring a freckle in the back of...
Service
Just as all Marines are riflemen, they must now also be proficient in a new battlefield technology: Artificial intelligence, or AI. All Marines have until Dec.
Legacy
Thanks to the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Army Air Corps 2nd Lt. Joseph L. Burke finally received the honorable burial he earned.
Legacy
“It must not be killed or shot at except in an emergency arising out of self-defense.” That was one of the U.S. State Department’s cardinal rules for American fortune seekers, proto-cryptozoologists,.
Legacy
Calvin Graham faced the biggest test of his young life when he tried to enlist in the United States Navy in 1942. The baby-faced Graham was only 12 years old at the time and did everything he could...
