US Army Leaders Cleared of Wrongdoing in Soldier's Killing Spree Commanders failed to notice Staff Sgt. Robert Bales erratic behavior before his 2012 massacre of 16 Afghan villagers.
Surviving Resignation Calls, VA Official Says 'My Faith Kept Me Here' More than a year after a veterans’ group and the chair of a congressional committee demanded her ouster, Allison Hickey is...
Pentagon Now Says Army Mistakenly Sent Live Anthrax to All 50 States A probe into the service's mistaken shipments of live anthrax spores has widened to all 50 states, nine countries and 194...
HHS Develops an Anthrax Vaccine While DoD Stumbles The Health and Human Services Administration managed to come up with an vaccine without the dangerous shipment of live...
Military Services Turn Blind Eye to Ashley Madison Customers The services appear to be backing away from punishing troops who used .mil addresses to join the adultery website Ashley...
McDonald Says VA Increasingly Taxed by Needs of Vietnam-Era Veterans The latest challenges facing the VA stem in part from a surge in health care needs and claims from Vietnam-era veterans, the...
US Military May Have Also Mishandled Plague and Encephalitis Bacteria In addition to shipping live anthrax, military labs may also have mishandled plague and equine encephalitis bacteria.
IAVA Chief Criticizes Sanders as ‘Apologist’ for Scandal-Riddled VA Paul Rieckhoff said Sen. Bernie Sanders defended the Veterans Affairs Department as the wait-times scandal erupted last year.
American Legion Renews Call for VA's Hickey to Step Down The American Legion has renewed its call for Under Secretary of Veterans Benefits Allison Hickey to resign or be fired.
Congress to Investigate Claims VA Officials Abused Positions for Gain Congress will hold a hearing on Oct. 21 into claims VA officials coerced employees into leaving their jobs so they could take...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
![Veterans Affairs Undersecretary for Benefits Allison Hickey speaks to veterans and VA employees at a "Healthy Heart" event in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 27. KATE HOIT / DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS)](http://images05.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/media/news/people/2015/08/allison-hickey-600x400.jpg?itok=t5jRmer9 "Veterans Affairs Undersecretary for Benefits Allison Hickey speaks to veterans and VA employees at a "Healthy Heart" event in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 27. KATE HOIT / DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS)")
