It killed heavy vegetation during the Vietnam War and it left hundreds of thousands of veterans and Vietnam civilians with a lifetime of illness and eventual death. Now, a proposed rule change could ...

Feb. 12 (UPI) --A civilian U.S. military expert praises what he says is the United States making incremental progress in increasing veterans' access to healthcare. Patrick Murphy, the 32nd U.S. Army ...

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A soldier participates in the Norwegian Foot March at Fort Ord National Monument, in Monterey County, California, Oct. 28, 2022. Mounting evidence shows that to kill pervasive poison oak and other ...

Steven Price joined the Army in the 1980s, around the time when the Reagan administration made combating leftist forces in Central America a priority. Price, who trained as a radio operator, remembers ...

During the Gulf War, Pat Abeyta, a former Army welder and mechanic, was among those sent to work the massive pits where rubber, wood, plastics and other trash was burned, sending toxic substances into ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

On a windy evening last weekend, candles flickered defiantly at Uni-Trade Stadium as a crowd gathered before The Wall That Heals. The three-quarter-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial stood ...

People who served where Agent Orange was used and have health conditions caused by exposure to it may qualify. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...