Wednesday, September 30

A jailed veteran has accused a veterans affairs coordinator of stealing approximately $65,000 from her while she was incarcerated. The unnamed victim allegedly hired Jessica McVay, a veterans affairs coordinator at the public defender’s office, to handle financial administration like paying her bills while she was in Manatee County Jail,…

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii—Some 300 days after leaving Hawaii, the guided-missile destroyer Frank E. Petersen Jr. was welcomed home Monday with delighted cheers, jangling cowbells, handmade posters, and fresh flower leis.  The ship—part of the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group—did 40 days of combat operations and spent six months in…

The rush to build the next generation of military technology has drawn startups, Silicon Valley investors and former employees of companies such as SpaceX into the defense industry. One longtime investor says some newcomers are entering a field they barely understand. Van Espahbodi, a former Raytheon employee who was a…

New legislation in Congress calls for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide rural veterans with direct loans so they can build their own homes. U.S. House Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) and Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) introduced the Veterans Owner-Buider’s Rights Act on Monday to expand VA home loans…

Classic deer cartridges didn’t cement their legacies overnight. Instead, decades of deer camps, proven track records, and crowded meat poles speak to why these rounds remain reliable favorites even today.If you’re the camp member that’s been using the same rifle since there was an East and West Berlin, you’re in…

A few years ago, I spent my whole opening week in Kansas hunting a green soybean field full of browsing scars but didn’t see a single deer. When I finally stepped into the woods to find them, I found an area that looked like a feedlot—trampled to bare dirt with…

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is adjusting its guidance on prescribing psychotropic medications. The VA announced Monday that it would put in place guidance on informed consent which it said would increase transparency for veterans before they receive psychotropic medications, which include antipsychotics, stimulants, antidepressants, anxioloyctics and opioids. Psychotropic…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: On June 9, 1844, a squad of 15 Texas Rangers was patrolling the hill country northwest of San Antonio, looking for Comanche raiders. This was during the years when Texas was still an independent country, eight years after the Alamo, still a year before it would enter…

Military horror movies have been sending troops into haunted trenches, cursed jungles and secret Nazi laboratories for decades. This Halloween, you can watch a surprising number of them without paying for another streaming subscription or dropping $5.99 on a rental. Military.com previously rounded up some of the best military horror…

For many veterans, filing a claim with the Department of Veterans Affairs can feel like pulling teeth. The process has its own language, rules, and requirements that are tough to navigate. DeWayne Kimble understands that frustration from both sides of the process. Before building an online audience of more than…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed U.S. Cyber Command and military intelligence agencies to prioritize countering foreign threats to the upcoming elections, ordering intelligence collection and coordination with the Department of Homeland Security.The Sept. 22 memorandum was released publicly Monday and instructs the defense intelligence enterprise to gather and analyze information…

The U.S. Space Force is going even more high-tech by developing new software that will combine commercial and military flight tracking data into one component to deliver more timely and accurate information. Col. Barry Croker, who heads up the Space Force’s Mission Delta 2, and spoke at this month’s annual…

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