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Senior Chief Operations Specialist Douglas Reece leads a training session on extremism in the ranks aboard the USS Curtis Wilbur in February 2021. The session was part of a Defense Department-wide stand down.

An investigation of a San Diego Marine is raising questions about the military's extremism policy

The Marine Corps investigated whether the reservist son of a former San Diego Republican official tried to join a white supremacist group. But the outcome of the case provided little clarity into the military's new anti-extremism policy.

El Paso County, Col. resident Liz Rosenbaum spends about 70 dollars per month on bottled drinking water rather than drink from her tap.

Despite A Massive Cleanup Effort, People Near Some Military Bases Still Can't Drink Their Tap Water

The military is spending millions of dollars to clean up water contamination around bases throughout the country. But people living with the contamination…

The Department of Veterans Affairs administers COVID-19 vaccines in a repurposed dining area at the Durham, North Carolina VA medical center.

The VA Has Vaccinated Millions Of People. Congress Is Asking It To Inoculate Many More

Congress has told the Department of Veterans Affairs to offer COVID-19 vaccines to some 24 million people who don't usually get their health care through the VA.

A protester holds a sign at a Washington, D.C. demonstration against the Trump Administration's budget cuts Feb. 28, 2025.

Veterans long enjoyed federal hiring preferences. Now, they're especially at risk of being fired.

The federal firings have affected an estimated 6000 veterans, who make up a disproportionate share of the government workforce.

A memorial honors the victims of a 2017 mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. A federal judge ruled that Devin Kelley might not have been able to buy the weapon he used in the shooting if the military had reported his criminal history to the FBI background check database.

Inconsistent military domestic violence policies allow troops with criminal histories to buy guns

More than four years after a former airman killed 26 people at a rural Texas church, advocates say the military still needs to do more to prevent violent service members and veterans from owning guns.

Women Fight Their Way Through Army's Grueling Ranger School

At Georgia's Fort Benning, female soldiers are fighting a two-month battle. Their enemies? Hunger, fatigue, even hallucination. They're fighting their way…

Construction projects at the Durham VA hospital include a 10-bed hospice wing, a radiation oncology wing, and expanded space for primary and dental care.

VA Building Boom Cuts Wait Times For Many North Carolina Veterans

New Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities in Fayetteville, Charlotte, and elsewhere have reduced wait times. But the VA concedes it must do...

Gene Popiolek, 68, (left) visits his father Bernie, 95, at an assisted living facility outside Baltimore. Bernie, a WWII veteran, pays to live here with help from the VA's Aid and Attendance benefit.

A VA Program Can Help War Veterans Pay For Long-Term Care, But Applying For It Can Be An Ordeal

The VA Aid and Attendance benefit can help some vets and spouses pay for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home health care. But the…

101-year-old Joe Cooper survived the 1945 kamikaze attack on the USS Ommaney Bay. He calls it a "miracle" that divers have found and identified the wrecked aircraft carrier off the coast of the Philippines.

78 years after Joe Cooper survived a kamikaze attack, the Navy has identified his ship's wreckage

101-year-old Joe Cooper was a crew member of the USS Ommaney Bay, which was attacked by a Japanese suicide pilot in World War II.

This wanted poster provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows Leonard Francis, also known as "Fat Leonard," who was on home confinement, and allegedly cut off his GPS ankle monitor and left his home on the morning of Sept. 4, 2022. Multiple agencies were searching for Francis on Tuesday Sept. 6, but they acknowledged he may already be in Mexico with the border only a 40-minute drive from his home. (U.S. Marshals Service via AP)

Eleven years after his arrest, 'Fat Leonard' faces sentencing in a massive Navy corruption scandal

Military contractor Leonard Glenn Francis bribed more than thirty Navy officials in one of the biggest military corruption cases in U.S. history.

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