How extremist groups target veterans, and what can be done about it
Over the past three decades, the number of veterans involved in extremist crimes has shot up 350%, according to data from the National Consortium for…
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Veteran jobless numbers stagnant, but experts say that’s no cause for concern
The veterans unemployment rate has remained stagnant for the past four months even as national rates have steadily dropped, but outside experts say they see…
Oklahoma governor, AG sue Defense Department over vaccine requirement
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s Republican governor and the state attorney general filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday, challenging the Defense Department’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate…
‘We just feel it’: Racism plagues US military academies
Eight years after he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Geoffrey Easterling remains astonished by the Confederate history still memorialized on the…
In the annual football uniform dispute, 2021 Army trumps Navy
Every year, West Point’s Black Knights and the Naval Academy’s Midshipmen duke it out on the football field to fanfare mostly stemming from the rivialry…
Senate passes stopgap funding bill, avoiding shutdown
The Senate passed a stopgap spending bill Thursday that avoids a short-term shutdown and funds the federal government through Feb. 18 after leaders defused a…
WWII vet who survived COVID-19 honored on 105th birthday
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A World War II veteran from Alabama who survived COVID-19 last year will be honored on his 105th birthday Friday with the…
3rd military medical team sent to Michigan amid COVID surge
LANSING, Mich. — A third 22-member medical team from the U.S. military is being deployed to Michigan, where hospitals are grappling with record-high numbers of…
Army reports the most racist extremism cases, Marines the most anti-government
Even before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Congress ordered the Defense Department to do a better job reporting and tracking extremist behavior among…
VA won’t fire employees for refusing the COVID vaccine until after the holidays
Veterans Affairs employees who refuse to get the coronavirus vaccine likely won’t be fired before the end of the year, but they could face other…