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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

Russell Crowe's Gen. Maximus Decimus Meridius wasn't real, which is a shame because someone needs to lead Rome. (DreamWorks)

The Best Real-Life Military Leaders in the ‘Gladiator’ Movies, Ranked

Ridley Scott’s two “Gladiator” movies aren’t exactly real history, but they are based on real history.

Chairman Frank Church, D- Idaho., the Senate Intelligence Committee, holds up a poison daft gun as co-chairman John G. Tower, R-Texas looks at the weapon during a session the panel's probe of the Central Intelligence Agency Tuesday, Sept. 17, 1975 in Washington.

The CIA's 'Heart Attack Gun': A Cold War Weapon for Targeted Assassinations

Of all the Central Intelligence Agency secrets revealed to the world by the so-called Church Committee of the 1970s, perhaps...

Bronze statue of abolitionist Harriet Tubman

On Veterans Day, Harriet Tubman Gets Formal Recognition of Her Military Service

In addition to her work leading slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad, Tubman headed reconnaissance parties and...

A P-51 Mustang flies in formation with U.S. Air Force Capt. Kristin "BEO" Wolfe, the F-35A Demonstration Team pilot, during a heritage flight practice June 16, 2020, Hill Air Force Base, Utah.

The Fighter Pilot Podcast: A Veterans Day Tribute

This Veterans Day, we’re taking a walk down memory lane, revisiting some of our most memorable episodes from among the nearly...

Major Gen. Kamal Abdul-Sattar Barzanjy, Iraqi Air Force commander, presents the Iraq flag to Gen. and Mrs. Hussam Abass Ali, the parents of Capt. Ali Hussam Abass Alrubaeye, during a funeral held at Arlington National Cemetery for the captain and four U.S. Airmen who died May 30 in an aircraft accident in Iraq. (U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Amber K. Whittington)

Why a British Field Marshal and 74 Other Foreign Nationals Are Buried in Arlington National Cemetery

When John Dill died on Nov. 4, 1944, it shook the upper echelons of the United States military, right up through Army Chief...

Pearl Harbor survivor Charles Sehe speaks at the USS Nevada Centennial Ceremony in 2016.

‘He Will Be Missed’: One of Last USS Nevada Veterans Dies at 101

Charles Sehe served on the USS Nevada during Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion at Normandy, France and the 1945 invasions of...

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