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When George Blackard found out about the Billings Vet Center, it was by accident. We just needed an office for a little event we were doing, the commander of the Andrew Pearson American Legion Post

Calling a vet to the farm used to mean an animal was sick, but new approaches by government and other agencies are opening the way for military veterans to assume a prominent place in the

VALLEY FALLS Amorici Vineyard is participating in the Return the F.A.V.O.R. program. The acronym stands for Find & Assist Veterans of Record, a discount program for military veterans. The Rensselaer County farm winery is offering

LIMA World War II veteran Robert Bohyer took in a screening of the new film, Unbroken, the story of a World War II soldier who ended up surviving the ordeal of a Japanese POW camp.

As a gunner’s mate in the U.S. Navy, Morris Barton served aboard the Lady Luck, a landing craft support ship, in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Judging from the festivities held in

Troops transitioning out of the military often worry that the jobs they did in uniform will be irrelevant to the jobs they want out of uniform. They’re often wrong. “We’ve seen that 85 percent of

  Many types of medical conditions get worse over time. If you are a veteran receiving disability benefits from the VA, you have the right to request that your rating be increased if your medical

ROCKVILLE, Md., Dec. 29, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Five-hundred severely disabled veterans will benefit from rehabilitation programs in winter sports and recreation through a $500,000 grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs to Disabled Sports

  Last week, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that a security lapse in the network of an undisclosed telehealth services contractor potentially exposed the health data of more than 7,000 veterans, Health IT Security

About a month ago, Army veteran Patrick Welsh got a tattoo on his arm: 22 periods and a semicolon. The message isn’t a grammatical one. An estimated 22 military vets kill themselves each day and

The consultant who provided fired Veterans Affairs hospital director Sharon Helman with thousands of dollars in gifts, including an all-expense paid trip to Disneyland, is a retired VA executive who had once been her boss.

LARGO No one is quite sure when Frank Bartlett lost the five medals he earned while serving in World War II, but Monday they were finally replaced. Bartlett, 102, served as a surgical technician in