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Star Tribune – The Pentagon needs to study the long-term health effects of exposure to the chemicals inhaled from burn pits at its overseas military bases, the Government Accountability [...]

AJC.com – Amid scandal brought on by a rash of veteran suicides in Atlanta, the local VA leadership in 2013 became fixated on stemming bad press coverage and set their sights on an employee [...]

Stars and Stripes – Lifetime health care and other benefits are part of the bargain for millions of Americans who put their lives on the line in the armed forces, and it’s become [...]

Military Times – Many service members have serious doubts that the next commander in chief will be able to handle the biggest military and veterans issues facing the country, even if their [...]

ProPublica – For years, the U.S. military and Department of Veterans Affairs have used the work of a Wyoming-based herbicide expert to flatly reject the claims of groups of veterans who [...]

Stars and Stripes – A few years ago, retired Maj. Wes Carter was picking his way through a stack of internal Air Force memos, searching for clues that might help explain his recent heart [...]

Reveal News – The Department of Veterans Affairs is doling out narcotics to 160,000 fewer veterans than it was three years ago, a reduction of nearly 25 percent, and alternative treatments [...]

Med Page Today – Veterans struggling to access healthcare services should continue to have the option of seeking care from private providers, but total privatization would be a mistake, [...]

HealthcareDive.com – The matter of the VA’s data sharing renewed concerns around the agency’s transparency, which have dogged it ever since its wait time scandal erupted in [...]

The Gazette – Local, state and federal politicians Monday called for accountability and more investigation into the military’s use of firefighting foam after a Gazette investigation [...]