Obesity Is Not a Service-Connected Disability: VA You can't blame the military for your girth, according to an official ruling.
VA Now Accepting Applications for New VET TEC GI Bill Program A new high-tech training program is accepting applications. Funding is limited, so apply ASAP.
Pentagon Seeking Survivors to Test Grief Support Apps The apps are designed to help families adapt to loss.
Got a VA Rating? You Can Get a Free Lifetime National Parks Pass Military veterans with a VA disability rating qualify for a free National Parks Access Pass.
LinkedIn Premium Now Free for Veteran Caregivers, Fry Scholars Want a free year of LinkedIn premium? Veteran caregivers and Fry Scholarship users can now snag the freebie.
'Military Update' Ends After 25 Years of Reporting for and About the Military My intent always was to produce clear and accurate explanatory journalism for military and veteran communities.
Armed Forces Retirement Home Accepting Applicants New regulations allow married couples to live in the homes.
As Commissary Sales Plummet, Pentagon Seeks 21 Percent Subsidy Cut The fiscal 2020 defense budget asks Congress to slash funding for commissaries by $271 million, or 21 percent.
Harvard to Offer Full Rides to 50 Veterans and Civil Servants for Master's Degrees in Public Policy The $100,000 fellowships are being offered at a time when the school has come under attack from President Donald Trump, who...
Fort Hood Senior Noncommissioned Officer Arrested a Second Time on Child Sex Assault Charges Sgt. Maj. Victor Manuel Rivera was arrested on June 18 and released on a $90,000 bond on June 30. He is facing a first-degree...
Trump Taps Air Force and Space Force Generals as Next Service Vice Chiefs Nominations were put in front of the Senate for Space Force Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton and Air Force Gen. Thomas Bussiere to...
The New VA Budget Pushes to Privatize Care, Risking the Veterans Health System "We are watching the slow dismantling of the VA from the inside out, buried in a budget document. If left unchecked, this...
21-Year-Old Soldier Hacked Databases, Threatened to Leak Stolen Data, Feds Say John Wagenius was stationed at Fort Cavazo and at a U.S. Army base in South Korea throughout the scheme between April 2023...
![A new Wounded Warrior Project survey of more than 33,000 Post-9/11 veterans found that 51.7 percent of the respondents were obese, according to their body max index, or BMI. Of that total, 6.2 percent were rated as "morbidly obese." (Getty Images photo)](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2018-12/obeseman1800.png.jpg?itok=b_MOXvOV "A new Wounded Warrior Project survey of more than 33,000 Post-9/11 veterans found that 51.7 percent of the respondents were obese, according to their body max index, or BMI. Of that total, 6.2 percent were rated as "morbidly obese." (Getty Images photo)")
