VA Awards Contracts Worth Up to $55 Billion for Private-Sector Care Over the holidays, the VA announced that Optum will manage three Community Care regions.
Senators Want Answers on Unspent VA Suicide Prevention Funds A group of 21 lawmakers has asked the VA to account for $17.7 million.
KBR Files Motion with Supreme Court in Attempt to Nix Burn Pit Review KBR and its former subsidiary Halliburton urged the court not to restore dozens of the lawsuits filed against the companies.
VA Stops Dropping Family Caregivers Amid Program Review The VA has stopped dropping caregivers from a program designed to compensate family who provide care to severely injured...
Military Spouse's Intimate View of Husband's Cancer Fight In the ER, Molly Pearl and her husband made the imperceptible shift between soldier and patient, wife and caregiver.
More Than Half of Wounded, Sick, Injured Post-9/11 Veterans Rated Obese A new survey of more than 33,000 Post-9/11 veterans found that 51.7 percent of them were obese.
Scientists Recommend Health Monitoring for Gulf War, Post-9/11 Vets, Offspring An influential non-profit says the VA and DoD should track troops and their children for environment-related conditions.
Almost Half of Retiree Tricare Dental Users Could Soon Be Uninsured Of the 800,000 military retirees who currently use Tricare's retiree dental program, only about 420,000 have signed-up for a...
Veteran Leaders Call for Probe of Abuse Allegations at VA Nursing Homes Recent reports allege nurses sleeping on the job and instances of abuse.
Millions in Cost Overruns Hit Effort to Merge VA, Military Health Records A project to provide common electronic health records for the VA and the DoD has been hit with a $350 million cost overrun.
Walks on the Mall, Shake Shack Burgers and a Car Crash: Scenes from the Guard's Deployment in DC What started as an 800-troop mission for the D.C. National Guard has ballooned to more than 2,000 troops as Republican...
Former Space Force Sergeant Fatally Shot Teen in 'Vigilante Violence,' Colorado Officials Say Orest Schur received a 54-year prison sentence after a jury in June found him guilty of second-degree murder and attempted...
Airman Killed in Off-Base AK-47 Shooting Near F.E. Warren Air Force Base Identified An airman stationed at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, who died after being shot by an AK-47 fired through the wall of an off...
VA Processes Record-Breaking Number of Disability Claims This Year, with 62% Approval Rate The department has made changes in the past several years designed to process disability compensation claims faster and...
Air Force Chief's Sudden Retirement Raises Question of 'Who Is Next' in Leadership Shake-Up Policy experts told Military.com that the departure raises alarm amid other leadership changes within the Department of the...
![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)")
