DPAA has committed to exhuming the remains of dozens of sailors who were aboard the USS Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

A recent march memorialized the Bonus Army, a massive 1932 protest of 43,000 demonstrators, including World War I veterans, who marched on Washington, D.C., demanding early payment of service certificates due in 1945. 

Federal law requires companies to be certified by the Department of Veterans Affairs to assist veterans in preparing, presenting and appealing claims. 

The idea is to incentivize veterans to stay in California when seeking a second career, according to Sen. Bob Archuleta, the bill’s author.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has commenced a multiyear mission to account for Americans lost in the World War II sinking of a Japanese prisoner transport ship in the Philippines.

Roddie Edmonds, Terry Richardson and Michael Ollis, who respectively fought in World War II, the Vietnam War and in the Global War on Terrorism, will be awarded the nation’s highest award for courage under fire.

Retired Master Gunnery Sgt. Juan Valdez, the last Marine to leave Vietnam, was 88 when he died Feb. 15 in Tucson, where he was living. To the leathernecks who served under him, it was only fitting that he was the last of their unit to depart Saigon.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, of Connecticut, hosted an unusual news conference as a way to highlight a joint resolution that would roll back a recent ban on most abortion services at Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities.

A notice on the Federal Register states that the VA is rescinding a final interim rule published Feb. 17 and restoring the prior standard for calculating veterans disability ratings and related compensation.

The lawsuit argues that the rule on disability ratings was implemented without proper notice or prior public comment period.