'The Enemy Is Lurking in Our Bodies' -- Women Veterans Say Toxic Exposure Caused Breast Cancer From fiscal year 2000 to fiscal year 2015, Veterans Affairs saw the number of women diagnosed with breast cancer increase by...
After Outcry from Female Vets in Congress, Pentagon Revives Committee on Women in Service Committee supporters have pointed to DACOWITS' track record as a reason to keep the group.
Female Vets in Congress Decry Proposal to Disband Pentagon’s Advisory Panel on Women Two senators and four House members told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that they owe their careers to the ground-breaking...
VA Calls on Female Veterans to Enroll in World's Largest Medical Research Biobank The Million Veteran Program is a biobank used by federal, academic and private researchers to study chronic and rare medical...
History-Making U-2 Pilot Puts Her Toughness to the Test in CBS Reality Show 'Tough as Nails' Viewers can see for themselves the inner toughness that enabled her to be a pioneer despite all the challenges.
The VA Is Now Offering Transition Services Specially Tailored for Female Veterans Female veterans use VA services less often than their counterparts. This new program aims to fix that.
Full Senate to Take Up ‘Deborah Sampson’ Landmark Bill on Female Veterans' Health A landmark bill designed to improve women's health services in the VA took a step closer to becoming law.
VA Wants Female Veterans to Enroll in a Genetic Study It is designed to help develop gender-based treatments.
This Retired Navy Nurse Left Millions to a Military Charity A retired Navy nurse with no family left a huge sum to the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society.
Unemployment Rate for Post-9/11 Veterans Rises Again Overall joblessness is at a 50-year low in the U.S.
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...
