VA Still Challenged to Provide Veterans Timely Health Care, Watchdog Says After more than a decade, veteran access to timely health care is still the No. 1 challenge for the Department of Veterans...
GOP Accepts Biden's Spending Boosts for VA, Pentagon in Debt Ceiling Deal Spending on defense and veterans health care would both see bumps next year under a deal between the White House and House...
This Memorial Day, VA Adds More than 300,000 Veterans to its Legacy Memorial Project Site The website contains interactive landing pages for 4.8 million veterans buried in VA cemeteries and elsewhere.
Veteran High-Tech Job Training Program Could Be Renewed for 5 Years The House on voted 409-9 to approve a bill that would extend the Veteran Employment Through Technology Education Courses...
VA Issues New Warning that Default Could Have 'Catastrophic' Effects for Veterans VA Secretary Denis McDonough said Wednesday there is "no blueprint for what could happen."
VA Can't Account for $187 Million in Emergency COVID-19 Funding The department received nearly $37 billion in additional funding to address the COVID-19 pandemic but now says it is free to...
VA Claims Backlog Expected to Grow to 400K, Largely Due to the PACT Act The VA expects its disability claims backlog to spike in the coming year but has a goal to reduce it to 100,000 by 2025.
VA Signs New, Tougher Contract with Company Handling Faulty Electronic Health Records Rollout The new contract calls for five renewable one-year terms, rather than another five-year term, to provide the VA more leverage...
Republicans Vow to Boost Veteran Spending Amid Debt Ceiling Fight The GOP bill would give the VA about $153 billion in discretionary funding in 2024, up from $135 billion that the department...
How Veterans Benefits Could Be Delayed in June by a US Default Billions of dollars of veterans benefits could be imperiled if the U.S. defaults on its debts, though the full extent of the...
Bribery Prosecution of 4-Star Admiral Opens Window into Navy Cultural Issues, Defendants Say The new ongoing corruption prosecution, which is much more limited in scale and largely rests on a single, problematic...
Joint Chiefs Chairman Caine Decides Not to Keep Senior Enlisted Adviser, Breaking with Past Precedent Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Troy Black will depart the post and retire from military service after the newly confirmed Joint...
Governors 'Alarmed' by Looming Transfer of Air National Guard Units to Space Force A bipartisan group representing all U.S. governors is sounding the alarm about a looming move to transition Air National...
As Controversies Pile Up, Trump Allies Increasingly Turn on One Another The latest turmoil threatens to engulf the Pentagon, where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has pushed out top advisers and...
New Army Fitness Test: No More Ball Yeet, Higher Standards for Combat Arms Among the most notable adjustments, which will likely be met with glee across the ranks, is the removal of the Standing Power...
![Members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment place flags in front of each headstone at Arlington National Cemetery.](http://images01.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-05/AP%20Arlington%20Memorial%20Day%201800x1200.jpg?itok=xOBInHru "Members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment also known as The Old Guard place flags in front of each headstone for "Flags-In" at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Thursday, May 25, 2023, to honor the nation's fallen military heroes ahead of Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)")
