Recently declassified Defense Department documents show the Pentagon knew troops were exposed to multiple toxins and hazards at the Karshi-Khanabad Air Base, known as K2, in Uzbekistan in the early days of the War on Terror.

The veteran died from an overdose on July 4, 2018. Two crisis line responders spoke to the veteran that day but failed to consider his or her risk for overdose and didn’t contact local authorities.

Veterans of the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base from the 1970s, and their families who lived with them on the base, face increased risks of leukemia and other harmful effects from prolonged exposures to toxic volatile organic compounds that were in the now-shuttered base's water supply at the time, a federal health agency has found.

Vivian "Millie" Bailey enrolled in the Women's Army Corps, the women's branch of the United States Army from 1942 to 1978, in December 1942. They were the first women other than nurses to serve with the Army.

For thousands of veterans who have also been struck by cancer after being exposed to toxins while serving overseas, it's Joe Biden's personal loss that makes them hopeful they may finally get the help they need.

Arlington National Cemetery will take part in the Wreaths Across America event this year, despite an announcement Monday that the cemetery would abstain from the tradition because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Shawn Skelly, a Navy veteran, previously worked in the Obama administration in multiple defense and transportation roles, and became the first transgender veteran to be appointed by a president in 2013.

Army Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe has long been considered one of the Iraq War's great American heroes and would be the first African American to receive the award for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan.

An Afghan-born U.S. Army veteran has turned to the military and online communities for help after years of waiting for officials to act on asylum applications he filed for his family in Afghanistan.

The coronavirus pandemic has taken hold of Veterans Day, changing the rules, offerings and gatherings to honor those who served. Free food and discounts are still available Nov. 11, but most are for dine-in patrons.

Since the pandemic struck the United States in March, there hasn’t been an increase in suicides or suicide attempts among its patients or visits to VA emergency rooms that were related to suicide attempts, the department said.

Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., announced his retirement in January, despite what would have been an easy re-election. “It's arithmetic,” he said in an interview with Stars and Stripes. “I'm just getting too old.”

When Fred Diedrich, 97, marks Veterans Day, the former Army paratrooper who jumped into European battlegrounds during World War II will do it with his British-born wife, Nancy, 92, who has her own relationship with war.

The VA compiles its data on a two-year lag and revealed for the first time Thursday the number of suicides in 2018. The average number of veteran suicides increased slightly from 17.5 each day in 2017 to 17.6 in 2018.

Two workers were killed in an explosion Friday while repairing a steam pipe in a maintenance building at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Connecticut, officials said.

President Donald Trump visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday, emerging in public for the first time since his failed reelection bid to take part in the annual presidential rite.

The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian marks the official opening of the National Native American Veterans Memorial Wednesday.

VA Secretary Robert Wilkie named Euel Sims Jr., who spent 21 years in the Navy Seabees, as one of two men killed in the explosion Friday at the West Haven Veteran's Affairs medical center.

Currently there are 2 million female U.S. military veterans (about 10 percent of the veteran population), according to VA statistics. The proportion of women is expected to climb to 18 percent within 25 years.

After an explosion that killed two workers, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy are calling for the federal government to rebuild the Veterans Affairs medical complex in West Haven, Conn.

Four years ago, Charles Green drove a friend to a food pantry to get food. As they waited in line, he saw the volunteers could use some help so he got out of his car and started helping.

The chapel will be officially unveiled next year, when the Indiana Veterans' Home celebrates its 125th birthday.

Dr. Stephen Thomas was recently tapped to be the lead principal investigator worldwide for a clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine being developed by drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech.

Staff at the Mt. Vernon Veterans Home in southwest Missouri transferred Roy Mitchell, an 89-year-old dementia patient with COVID-19, to the hospital only after his wife insisted he be moved as his condition worsened.

From canceled meetings, events and get-togethers for the American Legion, VFW and others, to visitation restrictions at the Montana Veterans Home in Columbia Falls, the effects of COVID-19 are being felt by veterans organizations throughout Northwest Montana.

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Come January, fewer lawmakers on Capitol Hill will have served in the military than in previous cycles, continuing a trend that is decades in the making. But those who have served will generally be younger, and more diverse.

The top 2020 Newman’s Own Award honor of $50,000 was awarded to GI Go Fund’s Veterans Center for Job Training and Entrepreneurship.

When a dawn fog lifted over countless World War I cemeteries and monuments in Belgium and France Wednesday, the pandemic ensured that the remembrance of the millions killed in the 1914-1918 conflict was one of the loneliest ever.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth's book deal was announced on the 16th anniversary of the day she was shot down in a helicopter while serving in Iraq and lost both of her legs.

Fred Becchetti doesn’t hesitate when asked what he was doing when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. He was washing dishes for 10 cents an hour at the old Alvarado Hotel in Albuquerque.

Medal of Honor recipient Kyle White continues to advocate for veterans getting help sooner than later — and for a new Cohen Veterans Network mental health treatment center that recently opened in Hawaii to help do just that.

Historians call Ron Dolecki's saga in Africa in 1965 the stuff of legend, and it helped him launch a career with the CIA. But his pride in his service has been mixed with exasperation. Dolecki, 75, has spent 17 years seeking military recognition for his time in captivity.

It might not be the theater lights on Broadway, but Veterans Day is literally up in lights, 13,000 of them, on a bigger stage: illuminating the Oculus at the World Trade Center transit hub in lower Manhattan.

Tempers flared and anger erupted in words and tears as veterans recounted their latest and toughest battle here on the homefront: the COVID-19 outbreak.

Veterans Day typically draws crowds of visitors to the nation’s capital and to events held across the country. Because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, celebrations this year will look different.

As veterans groups appeal to the state to loosen restrictions on posts and halls during the COVID-19 pandemic, some chapters have been leaning heavily on takeout and limited-seating meals to stay afloat.

Several veterans organizations in Connecticut are renewing their call to release veterans from state prisons who are low-level offenders and at heightened risk for contracting COVID-19, and to better protect incarcerated veterans.

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Thomas Redgate was born in 1926. He served in World War II and, later, reenlisted to serve in the Korean War. At 24 in December 1950, he was declared missing in action during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.

Days after Philadelphians danced in the street at the news of his election, President-elect Joe Biden stopped in the city for a more solemn ceremony Wednesday, laying a wreath at the Korean War Memorial at Penn's Landing in honor of Veterans Day.

Joe Bartlett, a 94-year-old World War II veteran, received a Purple Heart on Monday, over 75 years after being wounded in action.

For many veterans, a return to civilian life is colored by pretty much the same theme as life in the military: Service.

Celebrations marking Veterans Day gave way to somber virtual gatherings Wednesday, with many of the nation’s veterans homes barring visitors to protect their residents from the surging coronavirus.

After serving almost 10 months in Alabama jails for felony possession of medical marijuana legally prescribed in his home state of Arizona, disabled Iraq War veteran Sean Worsley walked out of the Draper Correctional Facility Monday morning.

Veterans and Gold Star families will be given free lifetime entry into national parks, wildlife refuges and other federal lands starting on Veterans Day, Nov. 11.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is eliminating its in-house compensation and pension exam program and will outsource all of the exams, which are crucial to determining whether veterans are eligible for VA benefits.

The pictorial — which went live in advance of Veterans Day on Nov. 11 — also honors five more who died of other causes while at the state-run care facility for veterans, and one resident who still resides there.

Charleston, South Carolina, is the best city for veterans to live in when they leave the military, according to new rankings released Monday by Navy Federal Credit Union.

Kevin Creed pleaded guilty last year to wire fraud for diverting money when he ran statewide fundraising to construct a Fisher House near the Veterans Administration medical center in West Haven.

Up to 60,000 worldwide participants are needed to test a possible COVID-19 vaccine, and researchers say veterans are known for their willingness to volunteer.

The "Legacy Jump" will kick off the Veterans Day celebration Nov. 11 at the National WWI Museum and Memorial.

Several VA hospitals announced this week they were selected to run trials for a vaccine developed by Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, part of Johnson & Johnson.

At the end of the Civil War, the country faced the unprecedented challenge to care for the thousands of disabled veterans who fought to preserve the union. The answer: soldiers' homes constructed on a scale unseen in America.

As of Monday morning, the VA reported 4,017 deaths among VA patients, with 1,000 of those deaths in the past two months.

The Army & Air Force Exchange Service will host Medal of Honor recipients from World War II, Vietnam and Afghanistan on its “Chief Chat” social media broadcasts this month to recognize valor for Veterans Day.

Less than half of the 182 veterans running for Congress in Tuesday’s election were declared winners in their races by Wednesday morning — incomplete results that appear likely to mean the overall number of veterans in Congress would keep steady or slightly decrease.

Alvin Mack II retired in May, the same month his son died at the age of 19. Now, Mack plans to honor the late teen's memory with a donation to Fisher House, which offered his family members a place to stay when they were in need.

“The Silent Soldier and the Portrait” delves into two secrets John Waller kept since his war days. One involves a military tragedy, the other stems from how he came to possess a miniature French portrait.

Lance Cpl. Corey Staten, who was just 23 when he drowned in a Missouri river in 2018, was recently awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal.

Nearly 6,900 Department of Veterans Affairs patients were battling coronavirus infections Thursday — a record-breaking number of cases for the department.

Romay Davis, who served during World War II as part of an all-Black, all-female Army unit, was celebrated Wednesday in a parade made up of city and state officials, volunteers, neighbors and fellow veterans.

The Bureau of Land Management on Thursday announced final rules that will allow nearly 2,000 Alaska Native veterans who served in the military during the Vietnam War to apply for federal land allotments in Alaska of up to 160 acres.

Army veteran Tim Berry began making wooden flags in 2017 by following a YouTube tutorial and constructing one for his own home.

An attorney for former Holyoke Soldiers' Home Superintendent Bennett Walsh cited his client’s military record on global battlefields while waging his own fight against conditions of pretrial release during Walsh’s arraignment on criminal charges.

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The setting has nothing to do with politics; it’s solely about those who served their country and the bonds they made with one another during that faraway conflict.

Jannae Gammage went into the Army in June 2007, and her mother Michele Johnson, an Air Force veteran who was in college but wasn't looking forward to a future of repaying student loans, was inducted in February 2008. They were on a path that would see them both on the ground in Iraq.

VA Press Secretary Christina Noel said Friday the report would be released "in the next few weeks." The report was delayed because the department plans to include "a variety of COVID-related data," she said.

The gap in veterans who are approved for benefits drew the ire of lawmakers who argued the VA should give presumptive care for veterans, saying the agency does not have clear guidelines for who gets burn-pit compensation.

Mary Ann Hotaling, an Army veteran and Army wife, raised $27,464 for Final Salute, a charity that helps homeless female veterans find stable housing and get back on their feet.

A school owner who defrauded the Department of Veterans Affairs out of $30 million in GI Bill benefits was sentenced this week to nearly four years in prison.

President Donald Trump has signed a bill into law that contains dozens of methods to prevent suicide among veterans, including measures to boost mental health research and staffing at the VA and establish a grant program for state and local groups.

Despite the boost and efforts from Congress, some say a shockingly low number of veterans are applying for upgraded discharges.

In the wake of a deadly COVID-19 outbreak at the state-run nursing home for veterans, Gov. Charlie Baker has vowed a number of reforms including bolstering its Board of Trustees with members who have medical backgrounds.

There are 182 veterans running for Congress this year, some at the center of the most competitive contests that will decide which party controls the Senate. Yet the number of veterans in Congress and running is far lower than previous generations.

Nearly 200 dependents of veterans in the last three years have had to repay GI Bill benefits after the service members failed to complete contract requirements, sometimes unknowingly, leaving them tens of thousands of dollars in debt.

Calls to the Veterans Crisis Line hit a high point in March as the coronavirus pandemic altered everyday life in the U.S. Despite the increase in calls and a shift to teleworking, responders met all their performance standards.

Officials for the Department of Veterans Affairs declined to participate Wednesday in a Senate hearing about the progress in implementing the Mission Act, a law passed two years ago to help improve health care for veterans.

Tricare Select Group A retirees will be required to pay new fees starting Jan. 1, 2021. An individual’s enrollment fee will be $12.50 monthly, or $150 annually. Family fees will be $25 monthly, or $300 annually.

A Baldwin County grand jury is expected to hear a case of an 88-year-old veteran who died in April after he and another veteran were involved in a fight at the Georgia War Veterans Home in Milledgeville.

A 30-year Army veteran who was the longest continuously serving Ranger in Vietnam and one of the war’s most decorated enlisted soldiers has died.

Thirty senators criticized the Department of Veterans Affairs on Friday for failing to implement promises made nearly three years ago through an executive order that President Donald Trump signed to combat veteran suicide.

Kelly Roser's attorneys say an otherwise exemplary military career was upended by a one-time positive drug test for marijuana that prompted a general discharge. But her drug use, they argued, was brought on by gender dysphoria.

Marine veteran and journalist Austin Tice disappeared at a checkpoint in a Damascus suburb as he was trying to reach Lebanon. U.S. officials have said they believe he is still alive and in the custody of either Syrian forces or a militia allied with the government.

As coronavirus restrictions unfurled a dangerous mix of depression and anxiety, the scourge of suicide cut through a tiny community of amputee veterans in recent months, claiming at least three in a group where isolation is already a potent risk factor.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has lost the internet domain rights to GIBill.com, which some advocates fear could open the potential for scammers to target veterans.

The House passed sweeping bipartisan legislation Wednesday that would give up to $174 million during the next five years to state and local organizations that provide suicide-prevention services to veterans and their families.

Recycle For Veterans — started by two former Marine Corps corporals after they finished their service in 2018 — teams up veterans with volunteers from local companies for California beach cleanups.

A joint effort by the Department of Homeland Security and a leading veterans group seeks to combat foreign disinformation in the final days before the election, more than a year after a report issued to lawmakers concluded that veterans are economically efficient targets of such efforts.

As of Thursday, VA is treating 4,749 active cases of the virus, 372 of which are its own employees — an increase from the 2,700 cases that the agency was treating in early September.

Agents with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations told Lisa Wilken there was no record of her 1994 rape when they showed up at her door. However, Wilken says there should be plenty on file about her case.

The second hearing before a legislative oversight committee on the COVID-19 crisis at the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke is set to highlight accounts from staff who cared for sick and dying patients during the outbreak.