As the service works to meet a congressional mandate to train female recruits at both of its training depots, the Marine Corps needs more female drill instructors as soon as possible, and the service is offering lump-sum bonuses up to $14,700 as an ...
The US House of Representatives voted Thursday to accept thousands more Afghan refugees who assisted American troops as the US military withdrawal nears its close and the threat of Taliban retaliation grows. The Averting Loss of Life and Injury by ...
An Army veteran who claimed to be blind due to a service-related injury pleaded guilty this week to defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs and collecting nearly $1 million in disability benefits. From 1987 through 2017, John Paul Cook ...
A federal website now lets veterans compare patient reviews of care at VA and non-VA hospitals using industry-standard ratings. The ratings for VA hospitals were recently published for the first time, according to USA Today, and a tool called ...
A federal court ruling could require the Department of Veterans Affairs to pay eligible veterans an additional year of benefits under two versions of the GI Bill, a decision that could impact as many as 1.7 million veterans. The case centers ...
A rioter who admitted to setting fire to Portland’s Justice Center and throwing a Molotov cocktail toward police officers during the 2020 civil unrest was sentenced Monday to four years in prison. Police arrested Cyan Waters Bass after a riot ...
A World War II veteran celebrated his 104th birthday earlier this month in Virginia with plenty of fanfare. On July 3, retired Lt. Col. Louis Frazier Martin thought he was heading out to a restaurant for a simple celebration but was instead ...
Two veterans groups are suing the Department of Veterans Affairs for allegedly failing to provide data on racial disparities in disability compensation benefits and health care services. The Black Veterans Project (BVP) and the National Veterans ...
A federal judge ruled this week that the United States Air Force is mostly responsible for a former airman's murdering more than two dozen people at a Texas church in 2017 in the deadliest mass shooting in the state’s history because it failed to ...
United States representatives want the Department of Veterans Affairs to talk to veterans about extremism and conspiracy theories online, according to a draft budget report from the House Appropriations Committee. The committee is requesting ...
The US Air Force released a new artist’s rendering of the highly anticipated B-21 Raider stealth bomber Tuesday, using Edwards Air Force Base in California as the backdrop. Few details or renderings have been released since the military announced ...
The Biden administration announced Friday it planned to allow deported veterans and their immediate relatives to return to the United States legally, saying their removals “failed to live up to our highest values.” Department of Homeland Security ...
Agents with the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations got to learn crime scene documentation skills recently at one of the most recognizable Western movie sets around. Last month, OSI officers from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, just outside ...
The Marine Rapper, aka TMR, and Black Rifle Coffee Company executive vice president Mat Best just released a collaboration years in the making, and it’s a total banger. TMR, who served as a Marine combat correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan, ...
L. Ron Hubbard is best known for founding the Church of Scientology, but before he started a religion, Hubbard had a prolific career as a fiction writer and spent a few years in the US Navy where, depending on who tells the story, he was either a ...
The October sun beat down on the flight line, searing the asphalt around the Black Hawk. Beads of sweat dripped from Luke Peelgrane’s face. It was “balls-hot,” dry, and the former Green Beret was stressed out of his mind as he prepared for a new ...
Johnnie Jones almost didn’t make it to Omaha Beach on D-Day. His ship struck a mine, launching him from the second deck to the first and injuring his back. “I was flying like a bullet,” Jones told VAntage Point. But it wasn't until he waded ashore ...
Oregon lawmakers passed a staggering 22 police reform bills before ending their legislative session Saturday, but reforms still didn’t go as far as some advocates would have liked. In the summer of 2020, after more than 100 continuous days of ...
US Navy veteran Howard Bailey fought back tears as he told legislators how his life, and the lives of his family members, changed after he was deported to Jamaica in 2012, a country he hadn’t lived in since he was a teenager. “I came here with ...
A Marine Corps veteran and his wife have filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department (CYFD), accusing the agency of firing them for identifying unethical activities. Cliff Gilmore, a retired Marine ...
The Biden administration told lawmakers Wednesday the US will soon start to evacuate thousands of Afghans who have assisted American troops for nearly two decades to other countries in an attempt to keep them safe while they apply for entry to the ...
A bipartisan bill requiring the state of Texas to study the therapeutic potential of psychedelics became law Friday without Gov. Greg Abbott’s signature. House Bill 1802, authored by Democratic Rep. Alex Dominguez, directs studies to be conducted ...
After the YouTuber known as Angry Cops published a video detailing allegations of toxic leadership at a US Army infantry battalion, the unit commander’s wife called the social-media creator and asked him to take down the video. After he refused, she ...
After the Purple Heart medal was kept from him for decades because of the color of his skin, a World War II veteran wounded while delivering supplies to the Allied forces on D-Day finally received the medal he earned. Osceola “Ozzie” Fletcher was ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to make gender confirmation surgery available to transgender veterans, VA Secretary Denis R. McDonough announced over the weekend at a Pride event in Orlando. “We’re making these changes not only because ...
The US military prides itself on helping develop cutting-edge technologies, but some of its inventions and tactics seem ripped straight out of Netflix’s Black Mirror, the popular sci-fi series that hooks viewers with its dystopian-fever-dream visions ...
The US House of Representatives voted Thursday to repeal the 2002 Authorization For Use of Military Force (AUMF), the first step in what many lawmakers hope will be a larger effort to scale back presidential war powers. “After nearly 20 years of ...
Portland, Oregon, police officers resigned en masse Wednesday night from the unit responsible for policing protests after one member of their team was indicted for excessive force during civil unrest last year. The Portland ...
A Maryland man was sentenced this week to two and a half years in prison for defrauding a US Department of Veterans Affairs program meant to rehabilitate veterans with disabilities. Francis Engles, 65, owned and operated Engles Security Training ...
Military uniforms may someday monitor and transmit soldiers’ vital signs and provide enhanced battlefield capabilities that sound like they were plucked straight from a first-person shooter on X-Box. Researchers from the ...
