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Stars and Stripes – Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki called the veterans claims backlog “the reason I agreed to continue my service as secretary” and promised that the department is [...]

ArmyTimes – The Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee passed eight bills Wednesday, but given the panel’s secretive approach, it is hard to judge the potential impact. Read More >

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers want to create a quadrennial veterans review, modeled after the Defense Department’s long-term planning document, in an effort to better project the needs and goals of [...]

WASHINGTON — With combat winding down, troop numbers dropping and budget uncertainty mounting, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s announcement Tuesday that he plans to cut thousands of positions in [...]

The Utah Senate on Wednesday confirmed Gary Harter, a former commander of the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Ground, as director of the newly named Utah Department of Veterans and Military Affairs. [...]

PANAMA CITY — The chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs has asked for assistance from the White House regarding the rash of suicides, deaths and other serious patient-care issues [...]

The Veterans Affairs Department has spent about $2 million on Facebook advertising to lure new followers and maintain ties with existing followers on the social media site, a government official [...]

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Michael “Mickey” Flynn D’heron waits for the VA on his backyard patio. Between his small brick home and the sound wall that barely cuts traffic noise on [...]

The U.S. Army has conceded a significant loss of records documenting battlefield action and other operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and has launched a global search to recover and consolidate [...]

After a fleet of C-123 airplanes dropped more than 10 million gallons of Agent Orange to destroy enemy cover and crops during the Vietnam War, the military found post-war work for the planes in [...]