Veterans benefits at risk if lawmakers don’t close $3B VA shortfall by Friday, agency says

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.

Defense agency accounts for 700th missing service member from Korean War

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.

US soldiers and WWII veterans join Dutch royalty to mark 80th anniversary of the Netherlands’ liberation

Thousands of Americans died freeing the Netherlands. On Thursday its citizens, including hundreds of schoolchildren, lined streets and festival grounds for commemorative activities.

San Diego’s 3.3 mile open swim race raises awareness for special operations forces veterans

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.

Leadership torch for ’28 Olympics passes to retired Army general

Reynold Hoover sees plenty of parallels between putting on the Olympics and running an Army command.

Legislation tackling ‘difficult problems’ funds sports prosthetics, service dogs and community mental health care for disabled veterans

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.

Military family advocates, volunteers pack boxes of household supplies for new Fort Cavazos families

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.

GOP lawmakers to subpoena VA over decision to register voters at medical facilities before presidential election

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.

Veteran-owned CBD company aims to help

Extract Labs aims to give veterans an alternative form of coping with stress such as PTSD with CBD products.

VA ordered to provide hundreds of additional shelter beds, build nearly 2,000 housing units for homeless veterans in LA

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.

Bobby Body seeks to recruit fellow veterans to para powerlifting after fourth place in Paris

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 Salazar helps in crunch time as US wins gold in wheelchair basketball

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.

Marks to head home from Paralympics with plenty of silverware

Army sergeant first class earns her fifth silver medal of Paris Paralympics games in her final race Saturday, while watching her world record fall.

Marine veteran’s series of comebacks results in silver medal

Dennis Connors launched four attacks after falling behind on climbs to take second in men’s T1-2 race at Paris Paralympics.

DOD overhauls jobs program to emphasize immediate employment for transitioning service members

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.

Senators push $15M bill to study birth defects in children of veterans exposed to toxic chemicals

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.

Driving every mile of the world’s largest yard sale

Dating back nearly four decades, the Route 127 Yard Sale snakes through Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan.

Veterans groups, lawmakers call on Supreme Court to hear Air Force vet’s suit on military medical malpractice

The Feres Doctrine has been used to prevent military medical malpractice lawsuits since 1950 and has even limited the ability of people to bring military rape cases to civil courts. Nearly two dozen veterans advocacy groups want to change that.

Czech man’s tireless mission finds kin of US troops killed in obscure WWII fight

Suppression of information in Cold War-era Czechoslovakia left many generations in the dark about the WWII combat in their lands, including an obscure battle that left dozens of Americans dead.