In this week’s episode of The BLUF, host Sarah Kallassy takes a look at how to use the GI Bill Comparison tool to find the right school for you to use your GI Bill benefits. She also talks about how you can skip the emergency room by calling VA Health Connect.

The national network of more than 150 state veterans homes would benefit from greater oversight from the Department of Veterans Affairs and annual VA inspections, a government watchdog agency said Tuesday.

Funding suicide prevention efforts at local agencies that are close to where veterans live was prioritized by senators as they considered reauthorizing — and possibly expanding — a $174 million grant initiative that pays for community-based outreach services, mental health screenings and emergency clinical services.

Millions of U.S. troops fought in Vietnam. For some Americans, the war that effectively ended with the fall of Saigon 50 years ago Wednesday on April 30, 1975, continues to shape their lives.

A U.S. district judge ruled last week that a VA psychiatrist can be sued personally by Marine veteran Trey Cholewa on his claims she initiated an intimate relationship with him while he was being treated in 2017, and that he can sue the federal government. The law firm representing Cholewa said the ruling was a victory “for veterans nationwide who’ve faced abuse.”

A new task force targeting anti-Christian bias at the Department of Veterans Affairs was established after some VA facilities restricted sermon content and an Army Reserve chaplain was removed from duty for preaching about biblical text against homosexuality, the VA said.

Henry Langrehr, 100, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division that parachuted into France on D-Day, died on April 23, his daughter Karen Winters said.

More than a dozen nonprofit agencies that assist ALS patients and support research sent a letter this week to the 43 members of the bipartisan ALS Congressional Caucus after a leaked proposed budget memo from the Health and Human Services Department called for defunding the registry and a biorepository with thousands of lab specimens.

Collins is scheduled to testify at a May 7 hearing of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee about the agency’s spending plan for fiscal 2026. He also will share his goals for the agency for the next four years and is expected to discuss the VA’s plans to lay off up to 83,000 employees by August.

The veteran duo sought to establish a time record for a one-day hike by adaptive athletes on the grueling 47.5-mile trek from the South Rim to the North Rim and back again. After hiking 24.5 miles, it became clear they were not on a pace to complete the route in one day.