988 Nationwide Suicide Hotline Crashes, VA Offering Alternatives The nationwide suicide and mental health hotline experienced a service outage Thursday; the cause has not been disclosed.
Former Marine Sues VA, Alleging 'Years' of Discrimination Against Black Vets Seeking Benefits Connecticut resident Conley Monk Jr. says generations have been affected by rulings that disproportionately favored white...
VA Unveils New Scholarships for Future Mental Health Workers as Agency Works to Combat Shortages The program would award scholarships to those looking to earn degrees in social work, psychology, mental health counseling...
15 Republican Attorneys General Warn of Legal Challenge to VA Abortion Policy The attorneys general argued that the VA's abortion policy implemented earlier this years is "deeply flawed" and that a...
VA Not Consistently Asking Vets Having Thoughts of Suicide About Firearms, IG Finds The VA called safe firearm storage a "critical priority" in its suicide prevention efforts and said it would implement the IG...
The Type 2 Diabetes Epidemic Among Veterans Is a National Tragedy. Let's Fix It. The VA is now facing a health care crisis among veterans that cannot be ignored.
VA to Move Veterans with Cancer to Front of the PACT Act Line McDonough also vowed the department "will not rest" until "every veteran gets the care they need and the benefits they...
Vets Who Took Paxlovid Less Likely to Get Long COVID, VA Study Finds An analysis of more than 56,000 veterans infected with COVID-19 found that those treated with the new Pfizer drug had a 26%...
VA Staff Providing Abortions May Not Be Protected in Some States, Democratic Lawmakers Warn The Department of Veterans Affairs should do more to clarify legal protections for employees providing abortion care in...
Class-Action Suit over Limits on Combat-Related Disability Pay Goes Before Supreme Court The Supreme Court will hear arguments in Soto v. United States, a case that challenges a six-year limit on back pay for...
Veterans Reunite with 'Precious Cargo' 50 Years After the Fall of Saigon One woman's quest to say ‘thank you’ led to the colonel who ran her refugee camp and the aircraft maintainer who may have...
48 Hours with Marines and Soldiers on the US Southern Border Amid President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, military assets and personnel are increasingly being relied upon for a...
'Everything Is on the Table': Army Eyeing Expansion of Privatized Barracks As part of a pilot program, construction is expected to begin this summer on a new privately managed facility at Fort Irwin...
Army Suspends Fort McCoy's First Female Commander Amid Trump Portrait Display Controversy The incident, which sparked a wave of right-wing criticism, centered on the base's chain of command wall display -- a common...
![Marines at the border wall](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-04/staff-border-wall-marines-wire-1800.jpg?itok=a3dIOHTu "Marines were deployed here to reinforce barriers during President Donald Trump's first term, but they were not armed with the long guns their Guardian Angels carry now, NPR reported. An old policy from the very unit these Marines come from said Guardian Angels must watch over their units' security with an "ambush mentality." (Drew F. Lawrence/Military.com)")
