An Army Ranger famous for a viral photograph taken during a bedside Purple Heart ceremony says he will likely miss the 2022 Paralympic Winter Games due to the new vaccine mandate. The US Olympic & Paralympic Committee announced that all ...
He dug trenches to shield wounded soldiers, snuck food to fellow prisoners, rebelled against Chinese reeducation programs, and spurned the rules by holding a sunrise Easter Mass while in captivity. Now, 70 years after he succumbed to illness and ...
The top two military leaders from the Pentagon advised President Joe Biden against removing all troops from Afghanistan ahead of last month’s chaotic withdrawal, but Biden never seriously considered the suggestion. Secretary of Defense Lloyd ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs is now administering COVID-19 vaccine booster shots to certain patients and employees under emergency use authorization. The VA announced Friday, Sept. 24, it would follow the Centers for Disease Control and ...
A memorial to those who served in the Global War on Terror got one step closer to being built after lawmakers passed the National Defense Authorization Act Thursday, Sept. 23, in the House of Representatives. Gold Star families have spent years ...
Veterans could see an unusually large boost in their cost-of-living benefits payments because of legislation that Congress passed this week. The Senate approved the Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act on July 21. On Monday, Sept. ...
Zahra didn’t know what was happening. The Marines were leading her out of Hamid Karzai International Airport. They wouldn’t let her go back to get her bags, which were stuffed full of jewelry, money, and most of her legal documents. She was certain ...
Thousands of LGBT veterans kicked out of the military for their sexual orientations will now be eligible for full Department of Veterans Affairs benefits despite their other-than-honorable discharges, the VA announced Monday, Sept. 20. Officials ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs is implementing monthly enrollment verifications for veterans using Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits. Veterans using other programs, such as the Montgomery GI Bill, have had to verify their attendance for decades, but ...
One of Oregon’s most beloved coffee chains ended its first day of public trading with a share price nearly 60% higher than where it started. Dutch Bros Coffee's initial public offering debuted Wednesday, Sept. 15, at $23 a share and ended the day ...
On Aug. 29, 2021, the United States military carried out a drone strike against a suspected ISIS-K operative in Kabul, Afghanistan, claiming the strike was necessary to prevent an attack on Hamid Karzai International Airport. When pressed by ...
The head of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations threatened to subpoena Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to testify about the US withdrawal from Afghanistan after Austin declined to appear Tuesday, Sept. 14, at a hearing on the ...
An Army veteran was found decomposing in an emergency exit stairwell at his care home a month after he was reported missing, according to a federal report that strongly criticized police and the care home's staffers. The 45-page report by the ...
The first woman to lead Army Rangers in combat operations described her infantry path as “pretty typical.” Capt. Shaina Coss graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point in 2016, then became one of the first 10 women to ever complete Army ...
The country’s oldest living World War II veteran celebrated his 112th birthday Sunday with a street parade outside his home in New Orleans. Lawrence Brooks was born Sept. 12, 1909, in Norwood, Louisiana. He was drafted by the United States Army in ...
The Navy corpsman killed in a suicide bombing Aug. 26 during the Kabul evacuation in Afghanistan has been posthumously promoted and, along with the 12 other service members killed during the attack, awarded the Purple Heart. The 13 service members ...
The veteran suicide rate dropped significantly in 2019 but remained substantially higher than that of nonveterans in the United States, according to newly published data. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ 2021 National Veteran ...
Gold Star families are frustrated, saying numerous pleas for Congress to move forward with building a Global War on Terrorism memorial in the nation’s capital have gone largely unanswered, stalling progress on the yearslong effort. “As we pass a ...
Army Sgt. 1st Class Elizabeth Marks broke a world record in the 100-meter backstroke Friday, Sept. 3, winning gold and leaving the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games with three medals total. The 31-year-old Arizona native had tears in her eyes as she ...
Cyclists Ryan Pinney, Alicia Dana, and Alfredo “Freddie” de los Santos raced their way to a bronze medal in the mixed H1-5 team relay Thursday, Sept. 2, at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Pinney is an Air Force veteran and de los Santos served in ...
With bans on evictions now lifted in many states, the Department of Veterans Affairs is reminding veterans of resources they can tap into to remain in their homes. Lawmakers “adopted a limited, temporary moratorium on evictions” when the ...
Pensacola, Florida, police officers and volunteers gathered around the railroad overpass on 17th Avenue armed with rollers, brushes, and gallons of paint. They slathered red, white, and blue across the concrete. Holding a small detail brush dipped in ...
A US Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan won cycling gold Tuesday, Aug. 31, in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Shawn Morelli finished first in the Women’s C4 Time Trial. She completed the 24-kilometer race with a time of 39:33.79 on ...
A Marine from Norco, California, was among the 13 US service members killed Thursday, Aug. 26, in a suicide bombing at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui graduated from Norco High School in 2019, according to a ...
As athletes from around the world made their entrances during the Paralympic Games opening ceremony earlier this week in Tokyo, Afghanistan’s delegation was conspicuously absent, represented only by a volunteer carrying the nation’s flag in a show of ...
The US Department of Education has retroactively waived interest on student loans for more than 47,000 veterans and active-duty service members. Under the Higher Education Opportunity Act, certain military personnel who deployed to areas of ...
Sgt. 1st Class Elizabeth Marks won Team USA its first swimming medal of the 2020 Summer Paralympic Games, taking silver Wednesday, Aug. 25, in the 50-meter freestyle at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Marks set a Paralympic record time of 33.16 in the ...
Navy Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt made history Aug. 19 in San Diego, California, becoming the first woman to take command of an aircraft carrier. Bauernschmidt took command of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln during a ceremony ...
The delayed Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games are underway, and nearly two dozen veterans and active-duty service members are among the athletes representing the United States. Team USA wore masks and waved to a mostly empty stadium during the opening ...
Tens of thousands of US and Afghan citizens have been evacuated from Kabul since the Taliban took over, but the flood of people into Hamid Karzai International Airport shows no signs of waning. More than 58,000 people have been evacuated from ...
