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In 2021, a class action lawsuit was filed against the Air Force by the name of Johnson v. Kendall. The lawsuit was filed to challenge the separation practices of the Air Force. The plaintiffs contended that other-than-honorable discharges unfairly punish veterans...
Some servicemembers come from a military family and want to follow the example set by their parents or grandparents. Others may end up fast-tracked toward military service because they attend certain high schools or colleges. There are also some people who look at...
Normally, a Veteran may not receive both disability compensation from the VA and military retired pay. This may force a Veteran to decide if he would rather receive VA compensation or their retired pay. Whichever one they chose, it would be subtracted dollar for...
VA physicians are encouraging younger women veterans who served near burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan to get free breast cancer screenings at the VA to identify potentially serious health issues as early as possible. The VA will be making breast cancer risk...
An article recently published by Military Times shows that Carcinogens were found at a Montana Nuclear missile site. The samples from Malmstrom Air Force Base were ordered after several men and women who lived in and around the air base received cancer diagnoses. The...
When seeking to obtain entitlement to service connection for various conditions, Veterans are required to establish that certain conditions had their onset, in one way or another, during their active duty service. Unfortunately for those individuals who served many...
In an attempt to better treat PTSD, the Orlando VA Medical Center is pioneering the use of virtual care combined with specialized treatment to treat high risk Veterans. This cutting edge approach combines the use of technology allowing Veterans to receive treatment...
Gulf War Illness is a term used to refer to an assortment of unexplained or ill-defined symptoms suffered by Veterans who served in the Gulf War theatre of operations from 1990 to 1991, affecting an estimated 175,000 to 250,000 Veterans. Even now, over 30 years after...
Under the PACT Act, which stands for Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics, Veterans who served in U.S. Central Command from 1991 to 2021 in many countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, qualify for benefits if they develop certain presumptive conditions...
VA was scheduled to initiate the next stages of the rollout plan for VA’s new electronic health records system in Michigan in June with training to begin April of 2023. However, safety and reliability concerns surrounding the software signals the latest delay for the...