VA Renews Pledge Vets' Health Care Won't Be Privatized To say the VA Mission Act means privatization is a "myth" and a "red herring," officials said.
CBO Suggests Raising Tricare Fees, Cutting Veteran Benefits to Slash Deficit The Congressional Budget Office published options for reducing the imbalance, including three suggestions on Tricare.
VA Awards Contracts Worth Up to $55 Billion for Private-Sector Care Over the holidays, the VA announced that Optum will manage three Community Care regions.
Senators Want Answers on Unspent VA Suicide Prevention Funds A group of 21 lawmakers has asked the VA to account for $17.7 million.
KBR Files Motion with Supreme Court in Attempt to Nix Burn Pit Review KBR and its former subsidiary Halliburton urged the court not to restore dozens of the lawsuits filed against the companies.
VA Stops Dropping Family Caregivers Amid Program Review The VA has stopped dropping caregivers from a program designed to compensate family who provide care to severely injured...
Military Spouse's Intimate View of Husband's Cancer Fight In the ER, Molly Pearl and her husband made the imperceptible shift between soldier and patient, wife and caregiver.
More Than Half of Wounded, Sick, Injured Post-9/11 Veterans Rated Obese A new survey of more than 33,000 Post-9/11 veterans found that 51.7 percent of them were obese.
Scientists Recommend Health Monitoring for Gulf War, Post-9/11 Vets, Offspring An influential non-profit says the VA and DoD should track troops and their children for environment-related conditions.
Almost Half of Retiree Tricare Dental Users Could Soon Be Uninsured Of the 800,000 military retirees who currently use Tricare's retiree dental program, only about 420,000 have signed-up for a...
Trump Wants a Department of War. A House GOP Amendment Would Give Him One. Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., has filed an amendment to the annual defense policy bill that would formally change the name of the...
F-35 Pilot Was on Phone for Nearly an Hour with Engineers Before Ejection and Fiery Crash The 39-page crash report, released this week, detailed the circumstances of the fiery crash, which completely destroyed the F...
All Services Now Issue Form DD214-1 to Departing Reservists The military's reserve components now issue departing reservists a new record that summarizes their periods of active and...
Veteran Stole $244K in Disability, Then Faked Drowning Death in Maine, Feds Say Gregory P. Heimann Jr. will be returned to Maine, where he will face a charge of making false statements to the government.
US Deportation Flights Hit Record Highs as Carriers Try to Hide the Planes, Advocates Say Immigration advocates gather like clockwork outside Seattle's King County International Airport to witness deportation...