Scooter Brown and Donnie Reis believe 2023 could prove a breakout year and an opening act for what they hope to turn into a veteran-inspired War Hippie empire complete with music and television gigs alongside War Hippie-branded clothing and alcohol lines.
At one point, many years ago, Walter Reynolds just couldn’t sleep. He and members of his troop, who were stationed in the Philippines, lived in fear because Japanese soldiers would frequently try to stab them to death as they slept outside at night.
David Foland, an administrative support technician at the Portland, Ore., Military Entrance Processing Station, received the Western Sector Coin for Excellence March 7 for thwarting a would-be shooter at a pub in Troutdale, Ore., in February.
Caitlin Bassett was an intelligence analyst in the Army, attaining the rank of staff sergeant, and she completed three combat deployments — two to Afghanistan and one to Qatar. She says she is grateful to the military for all that it nurtured in her.
A Las Vegas man and Navy veteran with ties to a far-right extremist group advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government has been sentenced to federal prison for sexually abusing a young girl.
A former manager and Army veteran at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center was sentenced to six months in federal prison for accepting thousands of dollars in kickbacks to steer inflated or phony contracts to a Florida couple.
Sarah Jane Cavanaugh, 32, attended public events in uniform where she spoke about the struggles veterans face, bought a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star to wear. In early 2022 she was exposed when a charity she applied to for funds became suspicious and started checking her background.
Two brothers in arms — and death — will be honored this week with the renaming of a Yorba Linda, Calif., post office.
Timothy Soto, the first to give his victim impact statement, honored his mother Nora Conde Villalobos by reminding the court that she was a Marine Corps veteran.
One had been a star high school athlete who enlisted in the Navy. The other was a recent Tulane graduate in mechanical engineering. Both were New Orleans natives who found themselves aboard the same doomed submarine along with 83 other sailors in the Pacific during World War II.
The Veterans Health Administration will pay for some beneficiaries to get a new Alzheimer's disease drug. Leqembi received FDA approval in January as a nonformulary drug. Patients who want to take the medication would have to request it, receive prior approval and meet stringent inclusion criteria.
Instructors with DREAM adaptive and the Whitefish Veterans Support Team partnered for the first time this winter to bring adaptive ski lessons and access to a group of six veterans, who are members of the Blinded Veterans Association.
U.S. Navy Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Anthony Di Petta’s remains were recovered decades after he was killed on a World War II airstrike mission in the Pacific Ocean.
Michael Mackrell, 41, is charged with assaulting an officer, entering a restricted building without lawful authority, obstructing of justice and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
A clinic that provides mental health services to Los Angeles-area veterans, active duty service members and their families, has officially opened its doors in Torrance.
Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet, has been nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as director of naval intelligence, one of several promotions or new assignments announced recently.
Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 departed on a secret mission sanctioned by President John F. Kennedy on Mar. 16, 1962, to fly to Vietnam. The flight went missing and after 61 years, there is still no trace of the plane nor were its passengers ever found.
A veteran of World War I, Oscar Mack received death threats after starting his new government job. Few words were exchanged when a group of men arrived at Mack’s home before shots were fired. A lynch mob searched the city of Kissimmee, Fla., for Mack, but by the end of the week, he was gone.
Pvt. Romay Davis, a 103-year-old World War II veteran from Alabama, received the first Lifetime Achievement Award at the 10th annual Women Who Shape The State event.