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VFW bashes The Economist for taking ‘turkey-sized dump’ on disabled vets
Patrick Murray of the Veterans of Foreign Wars has produced a rebuttal to a recent article calling for reducing veteran’s disability benefits that only a combat veteran could write.
Soldier ran half-baked pie scam to win COVID loans, feds say
A soldier said “Granny’s Delight” bakery sold his grandmother’s pies. Federal authorities say it was a half-baked scam to collect COVID-relief loans.
A push to cut veterans disability benefits is gaining traction, experts warn
Veterans’ benefits earned through two decades of sustained war are now under attack as “absurdly generous.”
After a new soldier’s death, his unit worked around the clock to make his final uniform perfect
New to the unit, Pfc. Dillion Easton’s fellow soldiers hardly knew him, but after his sudden death, they did everything they could to prepare him for his funeral.
‘Last man out of Afghanistan’ promoted to four star general after Senate hold up
Gen. Christopher Donahue commanded the 82nd Airborne at the Kabul airport during the final two weeks of the Afghanistan War and was on the final C-17 out of the country.
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A judge ordered the VA to build thousands of new veterans housing units in Los Angeles. An appeals court halted it
The Ninth Circuit’s stay blocks the construction of new permanent and temporary housing on the 388-acre campus until at least April.
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