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 ...

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 ...

Feb. 9 (UPI) --The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on Friday proposed changes that will expand veteran access to healthcare benefits for service members exposed to Agent Orange while serving ...

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As a young GI at Fort Ord in Monterey County, California, Dean Osborn spent much of his time in the oceanside woodlands, training on soil and guzzling water from streams and aquifers now known to be ...