Decorated Australian Veteran Loses His Defamation Appeal over Killings in Afghanistan Australia’s most decorated living war veteran, Ben Roberts-Smith, lost his appeal of a civil court ruling that blamed him for...
2025 Memorial Day Events Memorial Day is a solemn day to reflect on veterans and military personnel who are deceased.
On the Ninth Floor of a VA Hospital, I Listen and Write Down the Lives, Loves of Veterans Patients find it’s healing to have someone’s undivided attention and then a written story about their lives. And the stories...
Bill that Includes Expansion of Medical Marijuana Access for Vets Approved by Texas House Military veterans would be given special access, and their doctors would be allowed under the law to prescribe low-dose THC...
Wisconsin Veterans Voice Concerns as Trump's VA Cuts Loom With 2,400 Veterans Affairs employees fired by the Trump Administration, and DOGE plans to cut about 80,000 more, the...
Last WWII Vets Converged on Normandy for D-Day and Fallen Friends and to Cement Their Legacy Veterans of World War II, many of them centenarians and likely returning to France for one last time, pilgrimaged to what was...
102-Year-Old World War II Veteran Died En Route to D-Day Commemorations in Europe A World War II Navy veteran was being mourned following his death while en route to France to commemorate the 80th...
Veterans Organizing 'Call to Action' Rally on D-Day Anniversary in Nation's Capital The march, touted as a nonpartisan, pro-veterans employment and benefits protection rally, is expected to draw veterans...
Access to Care Could Have Saved My Son's Life. Other Vets Should Have a Chance. Long wait times aren't always an option for mental-health care, so the Community Care Program is often a lifeline veterans...
Veterans Crisis Line Employees Were Caught in Mass Firings. A New Bill Aims for Staff Protections. The bill comes after the Department of Veterans Affairs acknowledged in a letter to senators last month that 24 support...
Trump Pardons Former Army Officer Convicted of Disobeying COVID-19 Safety Rules President Trump pardoned a former junior Army officer who was found guilty in a 2022 court-martial of violating orders to...
He Was a Sailor. I, a Marine. Our Romance Was Forbidden by Regulation. I was the new “WM”—Woman Marine—on deck, and I felt the weight of all eyes watching me for every right or wrong move I made...
American Military Jeeps Are Rising from the Ashes in Vietnam A company called Van Daryl is rebuilding the Jeeps the American military left behind in Vietnam, and you’ll hardly recognize...
Pentagon Weighs Bigger Army as Service Sees Early Recruiting Success As of Monday, the Army had brought in 59,875 new active-duty enlisted soldiers with a total goal of 61,000 for fiscal 2025...
Space Command Headquarters in Colorado 'Not Sustainable' Without New Construction, GAO Finds The political fight over Space Command's future in either Alabama or Colorado has been a partisan tug-of-war for more than...
![World War II Navy veteran Robert "Al" Persichitti](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-06/ApNewsroom_D-Day_80th_Anniversary_Veteran_Dies_28197.jpg?itok=l1IOThBQ "This undated photo provided by the National WWII Museum, shows World War II Navy veteran Robert "Al" Persichitti, of Fairport, N.Y. Persichitti is being mourned, Thursday, June 6, 2024, after his death en route to France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. (Courtesy of The National WWII Museum via AP)")
