An Army Reserve veteran who was the driving force behind last year’s sweeping reform of health care for toxic exposure was awarded nearly $2.5 million in a Texas courtroom after a jury agreed he was forced out of his job as a Texas state trooper because of war-related illnesses.

Lt. Col. Andrew Mettler – an F/A-18 Hornet pilot based at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort who died in a crash during a training flight near MCAS Miramar, Calif., on Aug. 24 – was remembered as a hard worker who cared about people and his fellow Marines and possessed a “warrior’s spirit.”

A five-day bike ride through Central and Southern Illinois honoring fallen men and women of the U.S. military stopped in Effingham as families along for the ride shared memories of the loved ones they lost.

More than 80 years after Pfc. Glenn Harris death, the fallen soldier is finally coming home.

Roughly 70% of veterans older than 70 who do not have enough to eat are not using government food assistance programs, according to a research report released this week.

For some, it would be their first time seeing the war memorials — a physical tribute to battles fought, lives lost and sacrifices made to guard the nation’s freedom. But as quiet fell over the airplane, they prayed like it would be their last time.

Phil Paxson’s car plunged off Snow Creek bridge in Hickory, N.C., after Google Maps directed him to the bridge, which collapsed nine years ago, the lawsuit says.

A Navy veteran squared up with a massive grizzly bear in Montana and lived to tell the tale — using a whiteboard from his hospital bed, according to his family.

Thousands of LGBTQ veterans kicked out of the military for their sexuality under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy could see their honor restored under a new initiative that the Pentagon unveiled Wednesday.

A federal judge has set the stage for a possible trial next year in a lawsuit challenging leases of land on West L.A.’s Veterans Affairs’ campus to UCLA and a private school and the slow progress of the VA’s promise to build housing for homeless veterans.