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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

BEREA, Ohio — When Jon Reiss of Berea left military service, he knew he wanted to help fellow veterans. The former Army Signal Corps officer is now executive director of the Cuyahoga County Veterans Service

In 2009, our country made a goal of ending veteran homelessness by the end of 2015; since then the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), along with a vast network of partnering nonprofits nationwide, have worked

Veterans Affairs and Defense Department officials have promised that in 2015 they will make available new information that could help troops and vets figure out which schools are the best values for their education benefits.

Long before news broke that the Veterans Affairs hospital in Phoenix had manipulated waiting lists to hide the fact that veterans were facing long delays to see doctors, senior department officials in Washington had been