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This Medal of Honor recipient crashed his plane on purpose to get to his downed wingman
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By Feb 15, 2018
News

House Republican Calls For VA Secretary Shulkin’s Resignation Amid Travel Controversy

A Republican congressman called for Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin’s immediate resignation Wednesday following findings from a government...
By Feb 9, 2018
Veterans Benefits

VA Reverses Plan To Drain Millions From Veteran Homelessness Efforts

The Department of Veterans Affairs issued a memorandum this week that officially reverses plans to shift millions of dollars from...
By Jan 31, 2018
Veterans Benefits

Committee Considers New Eligibility Standards And More Land For Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery — a place long-viewed as a shrine to America’s fallen heroes — is nearing the end of...
By Jan 26, 2018
News

Amid ‘Please Stand’ Controversy, NFL Announces It Will Honor Veterans During Super Bowl

Days after receiving criticism from a national veterans organization for rejecting an advertisement urging players and fans to stand during...
By Jan 25, 2018
Family & Relationships

Married Veterans Face Greater Risk Of Suicide, Study Says

Veterans who are married or in a live-in relationship have a higher risk of suicide than their single counterparts, according...
By Jan 20, 2018
Veterans Benefits

Veterans Affairs Secretary Clarifies That VA Can Study The Drug, But Won’t

Proponents for research into using medical marijuana to treat post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain were dealt another blow this...
By Jan 19, 2018
News

VA Secretary Apologizes For Surgery That Left Scalpel In Army Veteran For Years

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin on Wednesday publicly apologized for a botched surgery performed four years ago that left a...
By Jan 18, 2018
News

Senators Call Out Shulkin On VA’s Unfilled Top Jobs

WASHINGTON — Why four top jobs within the Department of Veterans Affairs remain unfilled nearly one year after President Donald...
By Jan 13, 2018
Veterans Benefits

VA Establishes Exam Site For Deported Vets In Tijuana

For five years, deported Army veteran Hector Barajas-Varela has been fighting one of America’s largest bureaucracies. Now, he’s seeing some...
By Jan 11, 2018
News

Secret Bitcoin Millionaire Backs Research Of Ecstasy As Treatment For PTSD

The Pineapple Fund, an anonymous benefactor’s initiative to give away $86 million in digital currency, plans to donate $4 million...
By Jan 8, 2018
Health & Fitness

‘Get Ready To Fight’: Veterans Condemn Justice Department’s Rollback Of Obama-Era Marijuana Policy

Veterans who have advocated for greater access to medical marijuana are concerned about decreased access to the drug following Attorney...
By Dec 23, 2017
News

Trump Signs Bill Opening VA To More Investigations

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed legislation allowing for more and faster investigations of Department of Veterans Affairs facilities by...
By Dec 13, 2017
Military Benefits

Is VA Doing Enough To Implement The New ‘Forever’ GI Bill?

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs will hire 200 temporary workers and shell out $70 million to implement a...
By Dec 1, 2017
Veterans Benefits

VA To Offer Unproven Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy To Vets With PTSD

 The Department of Veterans Affairs announced this week that it would begin offering hyperbaric oxygen therapy to some veterans with...
By Nov 28, 2017
Veterans Benefits

VA Failed To Report 90% Of Poor-Performing Doctors, Watchdog Says

The Department of Veterans Affairs fails to report 90 percent of poor-performing doctors to national and state databases intended to...
By Oct 27, 2017
News

Lawmakers To VA: Please Take Medical Marijuana For Veterans Seriously

The Department of Veterans Affairs has been credited with major medical advancements since its research office was created in 1925...
By Oct 27, 2017
News

Facebook Finally Shuts Down Imposter Page Impersonating Vietnam Veterans Group

Facebook Inc. disabled a page on its social media platform Tuesday after determining it violated the intellectual property of a...
By Oct 17, 2017
Veterans Benefits

VA Proposes Choice Program Overhaul That Eliminates 30-Day/40-Mile Rule

The Department of Veterans Affairs sent a bill proposal to Congress that would overhaul how veterans receive health care in...
By Oct 13, 2017
Veterans Benefits

BRAC For VA: Lawmakers Search For Ways To Reduce The Number Of VA Facilities

The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on Thursday initiated what could be a long and politically arduous process to get...
By Oct 12, 2017
Veterans Benefits

Lawmakers Travel To Mexico To Meet Deported Vets Who Don’t Have Access To VA Care

When five members of Congress traveled to Tijuana, Mexico, on Friday, they met U.S. veterans, many of them with mental...
By Sep 21, 2017
News

VA Uses New Trump Rules To Fire DC Medical Director… Again

The Department of Veterans Affairs fired its D.C. medical director again, this time using new laws championed by President Donald...
By Sep 16, 2017
Veterans Benefits

VA Plans To Open Third Veterans Crisis Line Call Center

The Department of Veterans Affairs will open a third call center in the fall to handle an anticipated increase in...
By Sep 16, 2017
Veterans Benefits

Vets Should ‘Get Out In The Streets’ To Protest Handling Of ‘Bad Paper’, Experts Say

Easing challenges created for veterans who receive “bad paper” discharges will require changes in practices and procedures at the departments...
By Sep 8, 2017
Health & Fitness

Study Of Marijuana’s Effects On PTSD Struggles To Recruit Vets

After seven years of struggling to launch the first government-approved study of marijuana’s effects on veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder,...
By Sep 6, 2017
Veterans Benefits

The Social Security Administration Paid $38 Million To Dead Veterans

The Social Security Administration has paid out nearly $38 million in benefits to hundreds of dead veterans, according to a...