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The Quad-City Times – DES MOINES — Gov. Terry Branstad said Iowa “has become a lot more veteran friendly” since he began his fifth term in January 2011. Branstad told a [...]

Marine Corps Times – Before Gen. Joseph Dunford appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his confirmation hearing July 17, he answered a long list of the committee’s [...]

The New York Times- The Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday to confirm Robert A. McDonald, the 61-year-old former chief executive of Procter & Gamble, to take the helm of the sprawling and [...]

Department of Veterans Affairs – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today proposed a series of disciplinary actions against six employees at Department facilities in Cheyenne, Wyo., [...]

Veterans Today – “You have corruption, but also political pressure of ‘show us… we want to hear good reports’, and because it’s a mess, the managers start [...]

ArmyTimes – The rising ranks of servicewomen returning from Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade has changed the nature of care needed at the Veterans Affairs Department — but the [...]

Department of Veterans Affairs – As part of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Accelerating Access to Care Initiative, the Phoenix VA Health Care System (VAHCS) has reached out to [...]

Veterans of Foreign Wars – The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States thanks the leadership of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committees for reaching a compromise agreement to [...]

Legion.org – The country’s largest wartime veterans organization welcomed the introduction of a bill in Congress that would fix longstanding, widespread problems within the Department of [...]

Fox News- The House approved a $17 billion package Wednesday aimed at fixing the scandal-scarred Department of Veterans Affairs, boosting the chances that Congress can finalize the bipartisan [...]