Category: Veterans

By offering complimentary travel to veterans on Honor Flights, priority boarding for active duty military and donations to numerous non-profit military organizations, Alaska Airlines has long been a proud supporter of the United States military. But today, Alaska unveiled its largest (and heaviest) honor to date – a Boeing 737-900ER with a customized paint job […]

US refuses to add sailors’ names to Vietnam Memorial because they were ‘outside the Vietnam combat zone’ when their ship sank during a training exercise  74 US Sailors died in a 1969 ship collision between the USS Frank E. Evans and an Australian aircraft during the Vietnam War Survivors and relatives of those killed have […]

Worldation writes- The floor is just as comfortable as a bed During training and on deployment, there are many times when a soldier will have to grab a few minutes of sleep on the nearest flat surface. That surface is usually a floor and has become just as comfortable as a bed, and our backpack […]

Trump awards Purple Heart on first trip to Walter Reed “When I heard about this … I wanted to do it myself,” President Donald J. Trump said during a brief ceremony at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. http://cbsn.ws/2pp05CE Posted by CBS News on Saturday, April 22, 2017 Posted by CBS News on Saturday, April […]

Colorado Closer to Allowing Medical Pot for PTSD  Military news wrights DENVER — Colorado is closer to becoming at least the 15th state to allow medical pot for post-traumatic stress. The state House on Thursday approved a bill adding PTSD to the list of qualifying conditions for medical pot. Though marijuana is legal for all adults […]

VA Launches ‘New, Unique’ Tool to Help Prevent Veteran Suicides Military news writes WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs recently unveiled a new program that reviews veterans’ health records to identify which ones might attempt suicide. The VA launched the new analytics program nationwide this month. It uses a computer algorithm to comb through […]

VFW Blasts Proposed GI Bill Enrollment Fee as ‘Tax on Troops’ Military writes The Veterans of Foreign Wars ripped the House Veterans Affairs Committee Tuesday for considering a proposal to slap troops with a so-called “enrollment fee” for access to GI Bill education benefits. “This new tax on troops is absurd,” Brian Duffy, National Commander […]

Sens. Moran and McCain: A great day for veterans and Veterans Choice Fox News In our hyper-partisan political environment, there’s not much that Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill agree on. But when it comes to our veterans, all Americans believe that our nation’s heroes deserve the best possible health care when they separate from […]

This Was Sent to me by a personal friend of the deputy-read it On Saturday 8/15/2015 at 2:18AM 35-year-old United States Marine Corps Veteran and Carson City Sheriff’s Deputy Carl Howell was dispatched along with several Deputies to a Domestic Violence call. It was reported that a man was brutally attacking a woman and there […]

Veterans Affairs secretary David Shulkin said Thursday that he would initiate a top-down review of the VA medical center in the nation’s capital after an urgent watchdog report warned that patients were being put at risk due to bad inventory practices from potentially dirty syringes to medical supply shortages. (FOX)- Shulklin said he had installed one […]