It takes more than 30 years on average after a service member is initially exposed to toxins for the Department of Veterans Affairs to acknowledge the illness, leaving tens of thousands of veterans waiting decades to receive compensation and health care, according to a new analysis.
How Natasha Rothwell confronted loneliness and self-worth in her new Hulu series, 'How to Die Alone.'
A proposed rule at the Department of Veterans Affairs to make it easier for veterans with a rare lung condition to qualify for disability benefits is being criticized by some veterans and a pulmonologist because the change requires tests and assessments that often fail to detect the chronic disease.
Lawmakers have until Friday to close a nearly $3 billion budget gap at the Department of Veterans Affairs to ensure millions of veterans and their survivors receive their monthly benefits on time in October.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced last week that it has identified the 700th service member listed as missing from the Korean War. More than 7,400 remain missing.
Thousands of Americans died freeing the Netherlands. On Thursday its citizens, including hundreds of schoolchildren, lined streets and festival grounds for commemorative activities.
Military veterans, first responders and civilians will compete Saturday at 8 a.m. in the Swim for SOF, a 3.3 mile open-water swim from Coronado Island to the USS Midway Museum to raise awareness and funds to support special operations forces veterans transitioning to civilian life.
Reynold Hoover sees plenty of parallels between putting on the Olympics and running an Army command.
Several pieces of legislation focused on providing unconventional resources and assistance that are not part of traditional medical care at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Roughly two dozen workers from a food distribution company spent Wednesday morning packing 240 boxes filled with dry goods, toiletries and household supplies to help newly arrived military families at Fort Cavazos.
House GOP lawmakers pushed through a subpoena to force the Department of Veterans Affairs to identify its third-party partners conducting voter registration at some VA hospitals and clinics in battleground states before the presidential election.
Extract Labs aims to give veterans an alternative form of coping with stress such as PTSD with CBD products.
The Department of Veterans Affairs must establish hundreds of additional shelter beds within 18 months and build another 1,800 units of subsidized apartments by 2030 after a federal court ruled the agency has failed to comply with an agreement to develop a Los Angeles campus with housing for disabled homeless veterans.
Army veteran who was medically discharged after a knee injury turned to powerlifting in 2014 after a therapist told him to work out his aggression.
Marine veteran Jorge Salazar has been aiming for gold since starting wheelchair basketball in 2013 after losing his legs below the knee during an IED blast in Afghanistan in 2012. The victory Saturday sealed the U.S. program’s three consecutive Paralympic gold.
Army sergeant first class earns her fifth silver medal of Paris Paralympics games in her final race Saturday, while watching her world record fall.
Dennis Connors launched four attacks after falling behind on climbs to take second in men’s T1-2 race at Paris Paralympics.
The Defense Department is overhauling SkillBridge, its job training program for transitioning service members, with tougher requirements for employers, the creation of a centralized tracking system to measure outcomes and a greater focus on moving participants into full-time work after an internship.
The generational effects of chemical warfare agents and other hazardous materials on the descendants of service members would be evaluated under a bill to fund $15 million in research on birth defects identified in the children and grandchildren of toxic-exposed veterans.