Veterans Affairs Deems More Than 130 Occupations Ineligible for Trump's Deferred Resignation Plan Nurses had been among those who received the original offer, but their unions had discouraged them from accepting, saying an...
VA Nurses Are in Short Supply. Unions Say Trump's Deferred Resignation Plan Could Make Things Worse Nurses caring for military veterans through the Department of Veterans Affairs comprise the largest group of federal...
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, Who Was the First Black Woman in Army Nurse Corps, Has Died Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this month at a New York nursing home, was remembered by...
'No Hesitation': Vietnam's Lifesaving 'Dustoff' Medevac Crews to Get Congressional Gold Medal To honor those who flew more than 496,000 Army medevac missions from May 1962 through March 1973, the House last week passed...
Military Medical Commands Developing Plans to Put Freeze-Dried Plasma in Hands of Medics, Corpsmen Carried by special operations troops for more than 10 years, freeze-dried plasma is making its way to the services' medical...
Making the Transition from Special Ops Medic to a Medical Career Your time in the military can be a great opportunity to gain experience for a future career.
Newly Approved Rapid Blood Test for Traumatic Brain Injury Could Speed Up Treatment for Troops The diagnostic test was developed by Abbott Laboratories and an arm of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command...
Major to Be First Air National Guard Flight Nurse Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross Maj. Katie Lunning and her team rescued and cared for at least 20 patients in the aftermath of the attack on Abbey Gate at...
Training Oversights Could Leave Military Medics Unprepared for Combat, Report Finds The U.S. armed forces have 73,000 medical personnel who need to be ready to provide care in combat theaters at any time.
It's Raining Blood: Air Force Tests New Way to Resupply Battlefield Medics The Air Force, in April, practiced parachuting 350-milliliter bags of blood secured in a cooler out of a C-145A Skytruck.
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...
