Two decades ago, in January 2005, more than 3,500 members of the 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team, the largest unit in the Mississippi National Guard, were deployed to Iraq. But no special date is needed for the unit’s veterans to stay in touch.

While he served four years in the Army, Robert Brewer’s 15 months in combat in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos were so eventful that the 79-year-old was inducted into the Army Ranger Hall of Fame during a June 25 ceremony at Fort Benning, Ga.

Mindfulness uses breathing, movement, listening, visual or other exercises to help people focus on the present moment and surroundings.  

Veterans and pets are some of the most likely groups to be adversely affected by fireworks, which can cause anxiety and be “unnerving”.

A veteran who died in Chicago without any recollection of their life was recently memorialized in a funeral service with military honors nearly a decade after dying. Investigators identified Reba Caroline Bailey, who served in the Women’s Army Corps in the 1960s, through postmortem fingerprints.

Surgeons at the University of Miami implanted a Neuralink chip in the brain of a paralyzed military veteran as part of an FDA-approved clinical trial. So far, it seems to work: video shows the veteran using his mind to wirelessly play a video game.

Skeletal remains found abandoned in Michigan 28 years ago have been identified this week as Benjamin Harrison Fountain, a World War II veteran who was born in Virginia in 1926 and later lived in West Virginia and Detroit.

The case involved $80 million in refunds for illegal overdraft fees charged to service members and other customers. Navy Federal stopped the practice in 2022 and had partially refunded customers. 

The organization builds six to 10 affordable homes every year, one of which is reserved for a local veteran family.

Former Navy SEAL Matt Maasdam said he’s running for Congress as a Democrat, aiming to challenge first-term Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett in mid-Michigan’s tossup 7th District.