October 30, 2019 Army Reserve officer runs while carrying binder with names of US service members who died in Vietnam Lt. Col. Frederick Moss carries a binder filled with more than 58,000 names of American service members who died serving in Vietnam every time he runs a military-oriented race. Two of those names are of his father and uncle.
October 26, 2019 US Marine combat veteran, a convicted felon, deported to El Salvador A 38-year-old Marine combat veteran and convicted felon — who grew up in California after being brought to the U.S. at age 3—was deported to El Salvador this week after being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody for more than a year, his attorney said.
October 21, 2019 Deep-sea explorers discover second WWII-era Japanese warship from Battle of Midway The aircraft carrier Akagi was found in nearly 18,000 feet of water more than 1,300 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor; insight from naval historian Frank Thompson.
October 20, 2019 Vietnam Marine veteran in New Mexico hospice care reunites with beloved dog one last time A New Mexico man who served with the Marines in Vietnam said a final goodbye last week to the beloved dog he had to put up for adoption when he entered hospice care.
October 19, 2019 Navy veteran's family plans to sue VA over suspicious hospital death ruled a homicide The family of an 87-year-old U.S. Navy veteran who died suddenly in June 2018 -- reportedly due to a wrongfully administered insulin dose at a Veterans Affairs hospital in West Virginia -- plans to sue the federal Department of Veterans Affairs over the death, which has been ruled a homicide.
October 18, 2019 Navy vet completes journey to all 50 states collecting stories of fallen service members from Gold Star families When U.S. Navy veteran Keith Sherman began his journey to visit each of the 50 states and interview Gold Star family members there, he had no idea how much the journey would completely change the course of his life.
October 17, 2019 Another Iwo Jima flag-raiser was mis-ID’d, Marine Corps confirms: report The U.S. Marine Corps admits it has long misidentified one of the service members who took part in the Iwo Jima flag-raising – three years after admitting a similar error.
October 16, 2019 Former VA secretary claims Trump weighed closing parts of health system Former Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin has claimed that President Trump considered issuing an executive order to close parts of the VA health system without consulting Congress.
October 15, 2019 Man drives tractor 5,600 miles around US to support wounded vets Florida resident C. Ivan Stoltzfus on Saturday completed a 5,600-mile journey around the country driving his 1948 John Deere Model A tractor to raise awareness for wounded veterans and the nonprofit Operation Second Chance, a group committed to serving injured and ill veterans.
October 15, 2019 Veteran gets groundbreaking penis transplant after Afghanistan blast injuries Nine years ago, a US Navy corpsman was tending to wounded soldiers after an ambush by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan when an IED detonated beneath him.