Franchise giveaway targets U.S. military veterans. Enlistment has been brisk for Operation: Take Command, 7-Eleven, Inc.s first franchise giveaway contest targeted exclusively to U.S. military veterans. With the Jan. 25 deadline less than two weeks… Read More
The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee will discuss the path forward on a bill to strengthen suicide prevention efforts among military veterans next week, according to the panels chairman. The committee will come together for an… Read More
WASHINGTON For the second time in five weeks, the U.S. House has approved a Tim Walz-sponsored bill aimed at reducing a suicide epidemic that claims the lives of 22 military veterans every day. A bill… Read More
The United States House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill aimed at preventing suicides among veterans. The Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act was passed with 403 votes in favor of… Read More
Suicide is a serious national epidemic. It is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. However, for America’s veterans, it is an even more serious epidemic. Veteran’s make up 10 percent of… Read More
It took Navy Airman Apprentice Elena Giordano nine years to be granted service-connected disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs for the post-traumatic stress disorder she suffered after multiple sexual assaults. Until recently, she… Read More
Post-9/11, the most prominent narratives about veterans are a study in extremes. Not all veterans are decorated heroes and not all veterans are victims. More than 200,000 warriors return to civilian life each year, and… Read More
Doctors at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Tomah, Wisconsin, hand out so many narcotic painkillers that some veterans have taken to calling the place Candy Land. They call the hospitals… Read More
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a contract for its long-promised new medical clinic in Savannah to Johnson Development of Birmingham, Ala., which will build and manage the expanded… Read More
A U.S. Army vet who found out he had terminal cancer after he fought the Veterans Affairs Department in Georgia for more than a year to get a cancer check-up has died. Norman Spiveys delayed-treatment… Read More