Marines Fly Flags at Half-Mast After Revered Former Commandant Al Gray Dies at 95 Gen. Al Gray was lauded by Marines, current and former, for his no-nonsense, salt-of-the earth approach to leading the...
Veterans, Advocates Want Blood Cancers Added to PACT Act List of Burn Pit-Related Conditions The Department of Veterans Affairs is studying whether acute and chronic leukemias and multiple myeloma should be considered...
Barbie and Ken Went to War Long Before the 'Barbie' Movie Before they left Barbieland in search of the real world, Mattel's signature Barbie and Ken dolls left home in search of a...
Got Gulf War Illness? These Researchers Want to Hear from You and Other Vets The study aims to understand symptoms that have plagued up to 210,000 veterans of the 1990-91 war in Iraq and Kuwait.
21 Facts About the First Gulf War Remember The First Gulf War? Persian Gulf War? Desert Storm and/or Desert Shield? They’re all the same war.
'Lot of Heartache' Raising Money, But Ground Finally Broken for Desert Storm Memorial The National Desert Storm War Memorial Association has faced headwinds in raising funds and working through the complicated...
A Sailor Survived Getting Sucked into a Jet Engine During Operation Desert Storm While preparing an A-6E Intruder for takeoff at night, 21-year-old flight deck crewman John Bridges found himself pulled into...
Researchers Think They've Found the Cause of Gulf War Illness A Texas researcher who has investigated Gulf War illnesses has found evidence that some service members have a weak form of a...
Army Division Bars Leaders from Bothering Their Soldiers After Work Hours Maj. Gen. David Doyle, commander of the Fort Carson, Colorado-based 4th Infantry Division, issued a memo last week barring...
Marine Corps Creates Billet to Keep Dual-Military Families Together During Stressful Moves The billet, which is called the dual-military coordinator, will act as a liaison between couples and their career monitors in...
Exposed to Agent Orange at US Bases, Veterans Face Cancer Without VA Compensation The Defense Department has publicly acknowledged that during the Vietnam War era it stored Agent Orange at the Naval...
Reports of Mediocre Disability Exams by VA Contractors Prompts Senator's Demand for Answers A prominent Democratic senator is demanding the Department of Veterans Affairs review the quality of its privatized...
A Group Aims to Rebuild Tun Tavern, Birthplace of the Marines, as a Tavern and Restaurant National Park Service rangers in the historic district field questions all day from visitors. One of the most-asked is:...