A mentally ill US Army veteran is going to prison after he confessed to firebombing a California family’s car and hurling Molotov cocktails into their home in 2018. On Monday, May 23, in San Diego, Senior US District Judge Anthony J. Battaglia ...
As inflation soars to levels not seen in four decades, veterans are poised to get another cost-of-living increase in their benefits payments at the end of the year. Federal lawmakers have introduced bipartisan legislation that would provide ...
A Florida veteran who limped into his VA appointments using a cane and wearing an adult diaper was really a gym rat grifter who lied about being in combat and stole years of disability payments from taxpayers, prosecutors said. Zachary Ryan ...
A retired soldier who parlayed his 20-year military career into a civilian gig at Fort Bragg is going to prison after shaking down contractors for bribes. On Wednesday, May 18, in Wilmington, North Carolina, Chief US District Judge Richard E. ...
Veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxic chemicals while deployed overseas could soon see sweeping changes to their health care and disability benefits after federal lawmakers spent more than a year haggling over the specifics of ...
More than 30 years after Gulf War veterans began suffering from mysterious medical conditions, researchers said they have proven that exposure to sarin nerve gas caused the illness. Around one-third of the 700,000 troops who deployed to the Gulf ...
Hank wore a pink bandana, matching Sarah Cole’s dress. As a camera snapped, William Cole leaned over to pet Hank. All three of them smiled. It was a big day for the young couple, William and Sarah, a gender reveal party with ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs is adding nine rare respiratory cancers to the list of illnesses presumed to be caused by exposure to burn pits, giving veterans afflicted with those diseases an easier path toward obtaining disability ...
Standing on the ramp of a C-130 in the dead of night, at 5,000 feet, in thick clouds over the Indian Ocean 12 miles east of the Horn of Africa, Terry Houin and his five teammates, all part of a secretive intelligence unit within ...
The week before she died from stage 4 breast cancer, Marine Corps veteran Kate Hendricks Thomas considered attending a press conference in support of burn pit legislation. She had frequently testified about the issue, shared about her own struggles ...
Long before CBS cast Tyler Grey as operator Trent Sawyer on the hit show SEAL Team, he was a real-life Army Ranger sniper turned operator assigned to the US Army’s secretive counterterrorism special missions unit. He deployed multiple times to Iraq ...
It’s an ongoing fraud case that allegedly involves sexual favors, home-cooked scallops, Syracuse University basketball tickets, public corruption, and fraudulent construction contracts at the US Army’s Fort Drum — and two of the three figures ...
Shahab donned a shirt he hadn’t worn in weeks, said goodbye to his family, and left the cramped apartment in Mazar-i-Sharif on Sept. 2, 2021. The father of eight had started walking to the money exchange when Taliban foot soldiers ...
Five VA medical centers will soon launch a service dog training pilot program for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Wednesday, March 30, that the pilot program would be available at the ...
In 2004, Naval surgeon Dr. Richard Jadick volunteered to deploy into Iraq with 1st Battalion 8th Marine Regiment at the front of the line and right into the thick of the combat. Almost 20 years later, he was back in harms way. This time, for ...
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — Leroy Petry had shaken so many hands that he finally had to make a joke about it. As he addressed a crowd of admirers and well-wishers Friday, March 25, he pointed to the mechanical hand he now uses as a prosthetic, which ...
The National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington, Texas, Friday, March 25. The museum, which is scheduled to open in 2024, will celebrate the service of the more than 3,500 ...
In January 2003, Chappelle’s Show premiered on Comedy Central and planted itself firmly in America’s collective consciousness, quickly exploding as a titanic cultural phenomenon and one of the greatest sketch comedy shows ever produced. Anyone ...
Mike Glover knows about survival. As a Special Forces soldier, Glover completed at least 10 combat tours and every special tactics training school the US Army could offer him before he left military service and turned his expansive training and ...
After being lured to Iran to meet a woman, Navy veteran Michael White was arrested, he said, and he spent nearly two years enduring “brutal physical and psychological torture” in an Iranian prison, held as a pawn in a diplomatic game with the United ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Tuesday, March 22, that it will pause dismissals from a popular stipend program for veterans and their caregivers after policy changes resulted in thousands of families being deemed ineligible for ...
Special operations forces have fought side by side with military working dogs on some of the most intense, high-stakes missions. On May 2, 2011, a Belgian Malinois named Cairo helped SEAL Team 6 clear Usama Bin Laden’s compound during the operation ...
A woman accused of defrauding veterans charities out of more than $240,000 by passing herself off as a decorated Marine Corps combat veteran suffering from stage 4 cancer has been arrested and charged with fraud in federal court. Sarah Cavanaugh ...
Alejandro Villanueva, the former Army Ranger who earned a spot as an offensive tackle with the Pittsburgh Steelers after leaving the Army in 2015, is retiring after a seven-year career in the National Football League. The two-time Pro Bowler played ...
In a building just a couple hundred feet from the fence line of Joint Base Lewis-McChord in DuPont, Washington, Army veteran Jared Wharton tugs the control grip of an MH-6M Little Bird, and a steady stream of the India pale ale ...
In a ceremony on Capitol Hill Wednesday, March 9, the military working dog who served in the SEAL Team 6 raid that took down Usama Bin Laden and a secret service dog who stopped a White House intruder in 2014 were honored alongside four other ...
Hunter Army Airfield, Ga. - Leaders and Soldiers from across the 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, gathered to witness Lothar “Joe” Funke, a U.S. Army Vietnam War Veteran, receive his gold spurs after 50 years, Feb. 17 at Hunter ...
There is pain when it comes to riding a motorcycle. On a bike, exposed to the elements, the little things are painful. At 75 miles per hour, raindrops batter exposed skin. A piece of road gravel kicked up by a passing car feels ...
Both of Keith Buckmon’s legs and one arm had to be completely reconstructed after he was injured in a 2008 suicide bombing in Iraq. “You know how you have bones in your legs?” Damaris Buckmon, Keith’s wife and caregiver, said. “He has metal. So he ...
Thousands of US Navy and Marine Corps veterans will have their general and other-than-honorable discharges reviewed following a settlement agreement announced Tuesday, Feb. 15, in a class-action lawsuit. The suit, Manker v. Del Toro, stemmed from ...
