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...
The Army Has Officially Deployed Laser Weapons Overseas to Combat Enemy Drones A pair of laser weapons has been deployed by the Army to an undisclosed location overseas to blast incoming enemy drones out...
Fired After 6 Months: Army Sacks Commander of Germany Unit Meant to Bolster NATO Against Russia Lt. Col. Eric Ackles, commander of 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, was relieved of command, the service...
Toxic Exposure Screenings: Vets Report Spotty Follow-Up on Questionnaire Meant to Boost Health Care and Benefits Rolled out with great fanfare in November 2022, toxic exposure screenings for all VA patients were mandated by the PACT Act...
Feds Settle Case for $2 Million After Skydiving Plane Took Out Marine Corps Osprey on Runway Nearly four years after a civilian skydiving aircraft collided with a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey sitting on a San Diego runway...
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...