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The Next Deadline for Backdated PACT Act Payments Is Coming Soon. Here’s What You Need to Know

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VA Fertility Benefits for Military Veterans

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Fertility Benefits for Active-Duty Service Members

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Military Child Care Fees

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The Mental Burden of Using Military Benefits

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Other Than Honorable Discharge: Everything You Need to Know

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Honorable Discharge: Everything You Need to Know

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PACT Act: Agent Orange Toxic Exposure

The John J. Pershing VA Medical Center held its third face-to-face PACT Act town hall Thursday afternoon in Pocahontas, Arkansas, and we were able to bring vital information to a number of Veterans. (Department of Veterans Affairs via Facebook)

What to Expect When Filing a PACT Act Claim

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Latest Military History Stories

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'The Man Who Calculated Death': A Journalist Explores Her Hidden Ties to the Creator of Nazi Germany's V1 Flying Bomb

When the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq began in March 2003, journalist Suzanne Rico was at the anchor desk of KCBS in Los Angeles...

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Bronze Statue of Tuskegee Airman Found After Theft from Detroit City Park

The statue of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson was reported missing Wednesday evening from Rouge Park on Detroit's far west side...

"The Restless Wave" by Adm. (ret.) James Stavridis is in bookstores now. (Penguin Random House)

'The Restless Wave': A Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander's Engrossing World War II Parable for Today's Great Power Conflict

"The Restless Wave" came about because Stavridis' publisher approached him with the idea of writing the American version of...

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How These US Military Aviators Became the First to Fly Around the World

To say the least, the eight Army Air Force aviators who departed Seattle on April 6, 1924, did not face an easy assignment.

(Forces News)

The Unbelievable Way Allied Pilots 'Rammed' Nazi Cruise Missiles Out of the Sky

Nicknamed "buzz bombs" because of the distinctive sound of their pulsejet engines, the V1 created the drain on morale their...

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The Best World War I Movies, According to Service Members and Veterans

These are the best World War I movies of the past eight decades, according to a Military.com survey of U.S. service members...

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