Thousands of student veterans have still not received education and housing payments from the US government due to a series of glitches plaguing the Department of Veterans Affairs' information and technology system, top VA officials confirmed during a congressional hearing Thursday.
Catch up on one of these three excellent new (one just new-ish) television shows that have veterans as their central focus.
MESSAGE FROM THE COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS
Marine and Vietnam Veteran Sgt. Leo Stokely passed away with no known family. His funeral was to be for an unclaimed veteran. Friday, a crowd saw just how powerful our country's respect for those who served can be.
Veterans Affairs is on the mend, said Wilkie, whom the Senate confirmed July 23. “The turmoil of the first half of the year is gone,” Wilkie said an interview at the New Orleans Convention Center on Thursday morning
This year's midterm elections have brought a wave of veteran candidates, and experts say if they win their seats it could bring more bipartisanship and foreign-policy oversight to Congress
President Trump has proclaimed November 2018 to be National Veterans and Military Families Month.
The number of homeless veterans decreased by about 5 percent this year according to new estimates from federal researchers, an encouraging turnaround after disappointing results the year before.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Dorchester was vandalized this week, and State Police are searching for those responsible for the defacement, which left the stone memorial damaged and an American flag cut in half.
Democrats have seized on a campaign strategy that they believe combines the best of patriotism with progressive bona fides: enlisting military veterans to run for Congress in the midterms Nov. 6.