Stars and Stripes' veterans coverage

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  4 months in, Veterans Choice Program remains underused, officials say

  The four-month old VA program that allows certain veterans to seek medical care from outside facilities has been vastly underused by eligible veterans, according to a VFW report issued Monday.

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  Senate follows House with bill to reclaim VA bonuses

  Senators on Tuesday filed a bill that would allow the VA secretary to recoup bonuses paid to employees involved in manipulating patient wait-time records.

• House votes give VA chief power to recoup executive bonuses March 2, 2015
• Tuskegee airman tells students of his long journey February 27, 2015
• Group says family doctors may opt out of troubled Veterans Choice program February 26, 2015
• Lawmakers puzzled as to why few veterans going outside VA for care February 26, 2015
• Burial services set at Arlington for missing WWII airmen shot down over New Guinea February 26, 2015
• POW/MIA groups ask Congress to investigate JPAC reorganization February 26, 2015
• Conservative veterans group proposes privatized health care February 26, 2015
• VA secretary apologizes for false claim; reactions mixed February 24, 2015

More veterans news

• Fighter pilot turned farmer to ply drones over cropland

  Steve Edgar, a fighter pilot who operated wartime drones in Iraq and Afghanistan, is back home in Idaho. Now he plans to use the unmanned aircraft for a more peaceful purpose: improving farmer crop yields.

• Remains of Korean War POW returning to Colorado

  The remains of an Army corporal who disappeared 65 years ago near the Chosin Reservoir and died while a prisoner of war in North Korea are coming back to Colorado.

• Vets, families saddened by defaced Gulf Wars monument

  North State veterans and their families reacted with disappointment and frustration in the wake of vandalism at the Gulf War Era Monument over the weekend at Redding Library.

• Historic Maine lodge to become retreat for injured veterans March 3, 2015
• Waterloo Honor Flight opens to '50s Cold War veterans March 3, 2015
• Ride 2 Recovery: for injured veterans, ride heals body March 3, 2015
• House votes give VA chief power to recoup executive bonuses March 2, 2015
• More access to USS Utah Memorial sought March 2, 2015
• Reservists may get help for Agent Orange exposure effects March 2, 2015
• Legion of Honor: A special thank you from France to American WWII vets March 2, 2015

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  Leon Kent, who stopped a line of tanks at Battle of the Bulge, dies at 99

  In the first desperate hours of the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, a young Army lieutenant was given an order that seemed impossible: stop a fast-moving column of German tanks from advancing.

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  Military Update

  VA looks to tighten sleep apnea rating schedule

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  VA secretary apologizes for false claim; reactions mixed

  Reactions from veteran groups and Capitol Hill ran the gamut Tuesday from outrage to acceptance following an apology by VA Secretary Bob McDonald for claiming he served with U.S. special operations forces.

• Redefining veterans proving to be divisive issue in South Dakota

  Despite it being overwhelmingly approved by the South Dakota House of Representatives earlier this week, an Aberdeen lawmaker believes it’s still possible to derail a proposal that would change the way the state defines its military veterans.