Before completing his senior year of high school in Beckley, Billy F. Garretson left to join the U.S. Army, serving from 1958 to 1964. Though he graduated from a military academy, worked as a minister for decades and earned other educational certificates, a high school diploma always eluded him.

Jack Huffman’s past two trips across the country and his current trek have been fundraisers for the Fallen and Wounded Soldiers Fund, a Michigan-based nonprofit organization helping to cover living and healthcare costs to wounded veterans, as well as assistance to the families of those who have fallen.

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. John Paradis, a volunteer with the Easthampton Coalition for Veteran Wellness and Building Bridges Veterans Initiative and one of the driving forces behind the monthly lunches, says “we’re striving to get back to the essence of what it meant for us as service members.”

Veterans who left miliary service with an other-than-honorable discharge or after a special court-martial for misdemeanor offenses will be eligible for the first time for health care and benefits following a rule change announced Thursday by the VA.

An Army reservist and friend of the gunman behind Maine’s deadliest mass shooting testified Thursday about his friend’s mental decline, describing publicly for the first time the warning he issued a month before the tragedy unfolded.

Though the Department of Veterans Affairs is under order by Congress to phase out live animal experiments using cats, dogs and primates “with limited exceptions” by 2026, the agency continues to support live-animal research at VA facilities across the U.S.

Jill Biden on Wednesday praised her husband’s advocacy for U.S. service members before she sounded a red horn to start the Wounded Warrior Project’s annual Soldier Ride from the White House lawn.

British army veteran Bill Gladden, one of the dwindling number of veterans who took part in the landings that kicked off the campaign to liberate Western Europe, died Wednesday. He was 100.

Kenneth Aungst, a retired Army first sergeant, was honored by the 7th Army Training Command with its Good Neighbor Award at Tower Barracks in Grafenwoehr, along with nine German citizens for their support of the U.S. Army and local community. He is the first American to receive the award.

More than 80 years after joining the Army, 102-year-old World War II veteran Neil Korn was presented with five medals and awards for his military service to the U.S.