6 Events in Military History That Happened on Leap Day Leap Day has a long history -- it's not something we all just arbitrarily decided to do one day.
How the Creator of Pop-Tarts Gave the US a Delicious Treat and a Sweet Foreign Policy Tool Pop-Tart creator William "Bill" Post was also an Army Air Forces veteran who served in occupied Japan after World War II. And...
Support for Afghan Allies Sidelined Yet Again Despite Push from Veterans The whirlwind couple of weeks has essentially put veterans' efforts back at square one and left Afghans still waiting for the...
Veteran Supporters Finally Get Vote on Bill to Help Afghan Allies, But Its Future Remains Bleak Veterans have been pushing to get a vote on the Afghan Adjustment Act, which would create a process for those evacuated to...
Family of Marine Killed in Afghanistan Fails to Win Lawsuit Against Alec Baldwin A lawsuit against Alec Baldwin filed by relatives of a U.S. Marine killed in Afghanistan has been resolved in the actor's...
Hundreds of Airmen Will Receive New Medals for 2021 Afghanistan Evacuation The latest awards include a total of 229 Air Medals, 98 Meritorious Service Medals, eight Distinguished Flying Crosses and...
Pakistan Says Nearly 25,000 Afghans Waiting for Visas to US Won't Be Deported as Part of Clampdown Pakistan’s prime minister has sought to reassure at least 25,000 Afghans waiting in Pakistan for resettlement in the United...
Was the War in Afghanistan Worth It? You May Not Like This Veteran's Honest Answer In "What The Taliban Told Me," a veteran Air Force cryptologic linguist responds to the question he gets asked the most about...
Former US Officials Ask Pakistan Not to Deport Afghans Seeking Relocation to the United States Last week, the United Nations said such forced deportations of Afghans could lead to human rights violations, including the...
Republicans and Democrats Agree That the Afghanistan War Wasn't Worth It, an AP-NORC Poll Shows At a time when Americans are deeply divided along party lines, a new poll shows considerable agreement on at least one issue...
USS George Washington Heads to Japan, Ending Troubled Shipyard Stay That Included String of Suicides The aircraft carrier USS George Washington is finally underway to its new homeport in Japan, following six arduous years in a...
Reports of Mediocre Disability Exams by VA Contractors Prompts Senator's Demand for Answers A prominent Democratic senator is demanding the Department of Veterans Affairs review the quality of its privatized...
New Marine One Helicopters Aren't Allowed to Carry the President Because They Could Scorch the Lawn The VH-92's lawn-scorching problems were first discovered in 2018 during the Trump administration.
Marine Corps Creates Billet to Keep Dual-Military Families Together During Stressful Moves The billet, which is called the dual-military coordinator, will act as a liaison between couples and their career monitors in...
Exposed to Agent Orange at US Bases, Veterans Face Cancer Without VA Compensation The Defense Department has publicly acknowledged that during the Vietnam War era it stored Agent Orange at the Naval...