1+ hour, 42+ min ago  (678+ words) House and Senate members, along with prominent veterans" organizations, hope 2026 will be the year Congress passes legislation to give 54,000 wounded veterans their military retirement pay and Veterans Affairs disability compensation " without one offsetting the other. In the past two weeks,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (455+ words) A pharmacy technician airman at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and his spouse were recently indicted in a plot to defraud the Department of Defense of millions of dollars in an effort to "curate and maintain a luxurious lifestyle." U.S. Air…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (543+ words) Andrew Laffon has joined forces with several law firms to petition the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to review the regulation, which was issued Tuesday as an "interim final rule" and immediately went into effect. The rule clarified…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (805+ words) The Department of Veterans Affairs has ended a practice that prevented veterans who can't manage their finances from owning guns, a change officials say will restore constitutional rights to nearly 200,000 former service members. The VA announced Tuesday it will immediately…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (484+ words) An immigration judge has dismissed the deportation case against a landscaper who was arrested in Southern California last year, and the father of three U.S. Marines is now on a path toward legal permanent residency in the U.S. The June detention of…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (794+ words) Service members sickened by hazardous exposures at the Pentagon on 9/11, as well as some exposed to radiation while serving " without related documentation " would be eligible for broader access to Veterans Affairs benefits under several bills being considered by Congress. A…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (390+ words) Certain state veterans cemeteries across the country received a near total of $80 million in grants in fiscal 2025 for their improvement from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, officials recently announced. The department granted 20 state veterans cemeteries over $77 million in fiscal 2025 for…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (669+ words) DeBlanc entered U.S. Navy flight training in July 1941, then transferred to the Marine Corps upon completion. Commissioned a second lieutenant on April 3, 1942, and rated a naval aviator on May 4, he joined Marine fighter squadron VMF-112 10 days before it shipped overseas " just…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (625+ words) President Donald Trump said he's dropping " for now " his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that comes after legal roadblocks held up the effort. "We will come back, perhaps in a…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (508+ words) A federal appeals court this week upheld a federal district court ruling ordering the Department of Veterans Affairs to dramatically expand housing for unhoused, disabled veterans on its West Los Angeles campus. In a decision filed Dec. 23, a three-judge panel…...