Obesity Is Not a Service-Connected Disability: VA You can't blame the military for your girth, according to an official ruling.
VA Begins New Claims Appeals Process Next Month The change is an attempt to speed up the process, which used to take years.
It's Official: Disabled Vets to See Biggest Raise Since 2012 Veterans with the highest ratings will get about $100 extra each month.
Retirees, Disabled Vets Get Biggest Raise in 7 Years for 2019 The cost of living increase gives more cash to one in every five Americans.
Vet Lawyers Got Desired 'Undiagnosed Pain' Case To Win On Appeal The ruling means that more than 11,000 veterans may be eligible for disability compensation.
VA Finalizes Rule Paying Special Monthly Compensation to Some With TBI Those with TBI should now find it easier to be approved for SMC benefit.
Veterans Work to Bridge Info Gap on Gulf War Illness A GAO report showed that 90 percent of VA medical examiners had not been trained on how to conduct exams for Gulf War Illness...
VA Offers Provisional Compensation for Claims The VA announced a plan to tackle its disability claims backlog by awarding provisional compensation to thousands of vets.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
![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)")
