Congress takes up expansion of Troops to Teachers
Frank McBryde says there are plenty of parallels between serving in the U.S. military and teaching. "You're not going to become rich, you need loyalty and you need to be dedicated to a task," said McBryde, 54. | 11/07/09 00:01:00 By - Rob Hotakainen
World just learning mystery of Vietnam-era Marine hero
On the morning of Aug. 12, 1968, amid a sweep through Quang Nam Province, Lance Cpl. Kenneth Worley awoke to shouts: Grenade! With little time to think, Worley threw himself on the grenade and absorbed its blast. He died. His colleagues lived. Worley received the Medal of Honor. But little of his life was known. Indeed, his real name wasn't even Worley. | 10/30/09 17:10:00 By - Michael Doyle
Almost 40 years late, unit honored for bloody Vietnam battle
Pfc. Paul Evans was rocking and rolling on his M-16 on a long-ago afternoon in Vietnam, spraying fire toward an unseen enemy hidden deep within the jungle. He was a terrified 18-year-old who knew, as other men fell around him, that he was about to die. Then out of nowhere, American tanks thundered out of the jungle, Evans later recalled. Alpha Troop had arrived. Tuesday, nearly 40 years after the battle, President Barack Obama gave about 100 veterans of Alpha Troop the Presidential Unit Citation, the highest award for valor that a military unit can earn. | 10/20/09 18:01:00 By - Barbara Barrett
Senators ask Obama to review personality-disorder discharges
At issue is whether the Pentagon is avoiding treating soldiers for post-traumatic stress disorder by claiming they had a personality disorder before they were sent to Iraq or Afghanistan and discharging them from the military. Four senators wrote Obama this week, remding him that as a senator he fought for better mental-health care for troops. | 10/20/09 17:22:00 By - David Goldstein
Israeli soldier captured 3 years ago shown alive in video
Israel on Friday released 19 Palestinian women prisoners after it received a two-minute videotape of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit holding an Arabic language newspaper dated Sept. 14, 2009 — proof that Shalit is still alive three years after his capture. | 10/02/09 00:14:00 By - Cliff Churgin
Obama says 'no' to pensions for WW II Alaska guards
In a strongly worded message to Congress outlining its priorities for a military spending bill, the Obama administration today said it disapproved of including money for pensions for 26 elderly members of the World War II-era Alaska Territorial Guard. The Guardsmen were assigned to protect Alaska from the Japanese during World War II. | 09/25/09 18:18:29 By - Erika Bolsted
90-year-old SC man relives WW II parachute jump in Holland
In 1944, T. Moffatt Burriss was a paratrooper landing in a Dutch field. On Friday, he jumped into Holland again. "It brought back memories," he said. "But it was a little different back then. People were shooting at me." | 09/19/09 16:52:15 By - Jeff Wilkinson
On 9/11, remembering Lt. Cmdr. Otis Vincent Tolbert
Lt. Cmdr. Otis Vincent Tolbert, a naval intelligence officer, was killed in the Pentagon on 9/11. He's buried at Arlington National Cemetery, amid his Pentagon brethren who also died that day. In the years since, Tolbert has been honored in different ways, in many different places. | 09/11/09 17:07:00 By - Michael Doyle
GOP calls VA pamphlet a 'death book.' Experts say it isn't
While Republicans are calling a Department of Veterans Affairs health planning booklet a "death book" that encourages veterans to kill themselves or forgo care, ethicists and legal and medical experts say it's a reasonable attempt to help America's veterans plan for the end of their lives. | 09/02/09 17:21:00 By - Chris Adams
Marine killed in Afghanistan served country in many ways
Marine Sgt. Bill Cahir spent his life as a public servant. He served as a congressional staffer, as a journalist, as a political candidate and, finally, on patrol as a Marine reservist in Iraq and Afghanistan. | 08/31/09 19:12:00 By - Barbara Barrett
VA won't pay benefits to Marine injured by vaccine
It wasn't a bullet or roadside bomb that felled Lance Cpl. Josef Lopez three years ago after nine days in Iraq. It was an injection into his arm before his unit left the states. | 08/30/09 06:00:00 By - David Goldstein
Facing discharge, Air Force pilot fights military's expulsion of gays
Some 13,000 service members have been pushed out under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," and being outed by an unreliable source with an ax to grind has not been a mitigating factor. Just ask Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach, a decorated 18 year Air Force veteran. | 08/24/09 00:32:11 By - Dan Popkey
Is VA a model for health care? Hard to know, says CBO
The Department of Veterans Affairs has made significant improvements to its health system over the past two decades, but the fragmented way that most veterans receive medical care makes comparing the VA with other systems difficult, according to a new report. | 08/14/09 17:42:00 By - Chris Adams
Illinois man battles PTSD he brought home from Vietnam
Kenny Euge, 59, discovered his passion for sculpture as a soldier in Vietnam. It's his therapy for the post-traumatic stress disorder he brought home from the war. | 08/09/09 15:47:16 By - Mike Fitzgerald
U.S. rolls out new GI bill for Iraq, Afghanistan veterans
This month, the U.S. government is rolling out its most generous educational benefits in generations, providing the opportunity for a free college education to any Iraq or Afghanistan veteran under what is known as the post-9/11 GI Bill. The benefits are better in Texas than elsewhere. | 08/02/09 16:42:49 By - Chris Vaughn
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