'Complex' Veterans Crisis Line Calls Passed Off to Undertrained Responders, Watchdog Report Finds In response to the GAO findings, the VA promised to assess the outcomes of calls to the complex unit compared to the main...
Veterans in Minneapolis VA Study Used Mindfulness to Combat Chronic Pain VA researchers have been providing mindfulness training to veterans, alone and in groups, and finding it accelerates pain...
This Soldier Was Born into a Life of Crime. Somehow, He Became a Medal of Honor Recipient. Charles Barger and his assistant automatic rifle gunner, Jesse Funk, received the Medal of Honor for their actions during the...
Tricking Veterans: Using Suicide and Mental Health Struggles as a Guise for Privatizing the VA While attention remains focused on the looming crisis of Department of Veterans Affairs employees facing termination, an even...
Navy Unit Commanders Fall Short in Suicide Crisis Planning, Watchdog Finds The service meets standards for collecting data on suicide prevention and response, but nearly 30% of commanders didn't have...
Music as Meditation: Guitars for Vets Provides Outlet for Those Who Served Guitars for Vets is a national organization that provides free guitars and music lessons to veterans.
Veterans with Mental Health Conditions Face Challenges Getting Care Outside VA, Study Finds New research says that veterans with mental health conditions report worse overall experiences with community care than vets...
Grief Is Never Easy, but Military Families Can Bear Added Burdens The death of a loved one is never easy, but survivors who've lost someone in the armed services experience it in ways others...
How Prolonged Sitting Undermines Your Health and What You Can Do About It Research indicates that doing nothing will reduce blood flow and oxygen levels to the brain, negatively impacting cognitive...
How ‘My Dead Friend Zoe’ Reflects its Director’s Real-Life Military Experiences "My Dead Friend Zoe" -- now available on several streaming services -- is inspired by the experiences of director and co...
VA to Give Veterans One-Year Authorizations to Seek Care from Private Providers in 30 Specialties The move allows veterans to get 12 months of private treatment without having to request a reauthorization.
Air Force Investigating After Security Forces Kill Civilian Who Crashed into Arizona Base Gate An airman from the base's Security Forces Squadron "shot and fatally injured" the civilian after several of the troops used...
Broken Altimeter, Ignored Warnings: Hearings Reveal What Went Wrong in DC Crash that Killed 67 Over three days of sometimes contentious hearings this week, the National Transportation Safety Board interrogated Federal...
Senators Seek Answers on Hawaii Veteran Ordered to Self-Deport U.S. Sens. Mazie Hirono and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut have sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem...
Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson Rock On: ‘Our Military Upbringing Helped Us in Many Ways’ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart have never served in any branch of the military. But the...
