WCPO Cincinnati – The US Department of Veterans Affairs is asking veterans to be part of a new DNA database that could help deliver them better care. The initiative – called the Million [...]
Stars and Stripes – The Department of Veterans Affairs is moving forward with a restructuring of the agency started weeks before former VA Secretary David Shulkin was ousted from his job. [...]
Stars and Stripes – Wounded military veterans often face decades of physical challenges as a result of their service that affect their quality of life. They can also suffer from new [...]
Military Times – House lawmakers on Tuesday hinted at continued dramatic shake-ups at Veterans Affairs in months to come, this time taking aim at the department’s health management [...]
Military Times – Now that President Donald Trump has announced Robert Wilkie as his pick for the next permanent secretary of Veterans Affairs, the immediate leadership question facing the [...]
NPR – In the early days of the Iraq War, troops were riding around in Humvees with almost no armor on them. There was a scandal about it, and within a few years the trucks got up-armored [...]
Stars and Stripes – Eight years after being deployed in Afghanistan, a Minnesota Air National Guard veteran said he’s still living with the side effects of an anti-malaria drug he [...]
Military Times – As children at Patrick Air Force Base in the early 1980s, Kristen Emery and her siblings fished Florida’s Banana River and strung their catch on the back porch to eat. They [...]
The Hill – Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), the chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, signaled on Tuesday that his panel will take up acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert [...]
Military Times – A sweeping $52 billion veterans legislative package finalized by the Senate Wednesday will have wide-ranging effects on servicemembers of every generation and their family [...]