VA Has Come a Long Way in Serving Female Veterans, But More Could Be Done, New Report Says A new report by Disabled American Veterans makes recommendations to the department to improve mental health care for women...
VA Won't Cover Gender-Affirmation Surgery for Transgender Veterans Until It Reviews PACT Act Effects The Department of Veterans Affairs will not move forward with covering gender-affirmation surgery for transgender veterans...
Stress Getting you Down? The VA Is Offering Phone-Based Meditation Sessions Meditation has long been proven to have mental and physical benefits.
9 Fitness Challenges to Help You Become a Healthier Adult If you are considering joining the military, you are required to meet a certain level of fitness and health.
Reversing 'Alarming Erosion' in Military Quality of Life Requires Biden Funding Request, Top Lawmakers Say In a letter dated Feb. 16 and released publicly Tuesday, the chairmen and ranking members of the full House Armed Services...
Navy Survey Shows Continued Problems with Stress, Burnout Among Sailors, But Progress on Culture The data shows that more than one-third of sailors surveyed reported feeling severe or extreme levels of stress in 2023. The...
Why Flexibility, Mobility and Stability Are So Important to a Successful Fitness Routine If we regularly stretch, move, balance and strengthen our muscles and joints, we will improve our flexibility, mobility and...
Survey: More than Half of US Veterans Who Own Guns Store Them Unsafely A new survey published in the Journal of Affective Disorders finds that, although the number of veterans storing firearms...
3 Fitness Activities We Need to Keep Doing (or Add to Our Routine) As We Age Risks can be mitigated through the three key activities to longevity: cardiovascular training (activities such as walking...
Pregnant Troops and New Military Moms Would Get Expanded Mental Health Care Under Lawmakers’ Proposal The bill comes after a Government Accountability Office report in 2022 found service members face mental health conditions...
How the Government Shutdown Impacts Veterans and the VA While most vets won't be impacted by the ongoing government shutdown, concerns may ramp up the longer it persists.
Hegseth Wants 'Male Standard' for Combat Roles. Many Female Veterans Say That's Already the Case Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an address to the military’s top leaders waded back into a topic that nearly derailed his...
The Forgotten Military Vehicles of ‘M*A*S*H’ Between all the martini-fueled hijinx and medical drama, “M*A*S*H” featured some pretty special military vehicles.
Hegseth's Decision on Wounded Knee Medals Sparks Outrage in Native American Communities Native American communities that had long wanted the removal of military honors for the soldiers involved in the 1890 Wounded...
Airman Confronts and Shoots Armed Neighbor on Deadly Rampage, Iowa Officials Say Harrison Friar, a senior airman, was with his wife and children at their home in Glenwood on the evening of Aug. 6 when they...
