Tibet Ergul, left, and Chance Brannon, an active-duty Marine then stationed at Camp Pendleton, Calif., are seen on still images from surveillance footage, as identified in court documents provided by the Justice Department. Both have been convicted on charges related to domestic terrorism.
Marine who planned domestic terrorism attacks sentenced to 9 years in prison

Chance Brannon, 24, was motivated by neo-Nazi ideology when he threw a Molotov cocktail at a Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022, according to documents filed in federal court for the Central District of California.

A judge sentenced two veterans Friday for being part of a conspiracy to bilk Tricare, the militarys health care program, out of more than $65 million. Joshua Morgan and former Kyle Adams were sentenced to 21 months and 15 months in prison, respectively.
Veterans who recruited troops for $65 million insurance fraud scheme sentenced to prison

Two veterans convicted for their roles in bilking more than $65 million from U.S. military health insurer Tricare have been sentenced and ordered to pay back millions of dollars, the Justice Department said Friday.

A video screen grab shows Navy SEAL veteran Tim Sheehy speaking at a campaign event posted on April 4, 2024.
GOP Senate candidate in Montana builds campaign on once-secret Navy exploits

When Tim Sheehy completed Navy SEAL training in 2009 and shipped off to Iraq, the elite fighting force was not a household name. That all changed in 2011, when a SEAL team conducted the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a shift that took Sheehy, now the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Montana, by surprise.

In this photo taken in March 1944 in the Pacific, Richard Bong, then a captain in the U.S. Army Air Force, sits in the cockpit of his P-38 fighter plane adorned with an image of his girlfriend, Marge, and a scoreboard tallying his 25 aerial victories over Japanese aircraft.
Missing Marge: Search expert sets sights on wreckage of famed fighter flown by WWII ace

Justin Taylan, director of the nonprofit search-and-recovery organization Pacific Wrecks, is preparing to lead a team to Papua New Guinea to locate one of the most famous aircraft from World War II: a P-38 named Marge flown by ace fighter pilot Richard Bong.

A $500,000 remediation project has been launched at the Veterans Memorial Home at Menlo Park to address the apparent growth of mold behind the walls of the state-operated nursing home.
COVID killed 200 at NJ veterans homes, exposing failures; here’s how the state is responding

Widely criticized for failing to prevent the spread of COVID-19 that killed 200 inside the state’s three nursing homes for veterans, the Murphy administration on Wednesday outlined its plans to spend millions of dollars in improvements and create a new agency focused on veterans’ health.

VA secretary: ‘We’re at a critical moment for shaping and securing veteran health care’

The $369 billion spending plan that the Department of Veterans Affairs proposes for fiscal 2025 is “a maintenance budget” that tightens the workforce and pulls back on construction but continues to prioritize disability and health care benefits for veterans.

Increasing payments for survivors of military members, cutting red tape for veterans’ disability claims pushed in new bills

The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs subpanel on disability assistance and memorial affairs examined several pieces of legislation that would modify existing regulations for determining disability and indemnity payments for veterans and their survivors.

More than a dozen volunteers and workers at New Beginnings in Tampa, Fla., have left since February.
At Tampa homeless veterans shelter, claims of racism and false identity

Military veterans arrive at New Beginnings of Tampa having survived war zones and months, if not years, of homelessness. But former staff and volunteers say founder Tom Atchison fostered a hostile workplace, hurling racist comments as they tried to serve the region’s most vulnerable.

Wilmer Puello-Mota, a member of the 66th Security Forces Squadron, speaks during a gate dedication and renaming ceremony at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts, on Oct. 2, 2018. Puello-Mota, a U.S. Air Force veteran and former elected official in Massachusetts who fled the U.S. after being charged with possessing sexually explicit images of a child, told his lawyer he joined Russia’s army, and video appears to show him signing documents in a military enlistment office in Siberia, Russia.
US military veteran accused of having explicit images of a child apparently joined Russian army

A U.S. Air Force veteran who fled a charge of possessing sexually explicit images of a child told his lawyer he joined Russia’s army, and video appears to show him signing documents in a military enlistment office in Siberia.

The Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters building as seen in Washington, D.C., on July 6, 2022.
‘Cost estimate is stratospheric’: House lawmaker blasts VA’s plan for multibillion-dollar supply management system

Lawmakers sharply criticized the Department of Veterans Affairs for failing to provide a budget or keep them informed about a plan to modernize its supply chain management system that is projected to cost as much as $15 billion.