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‘A new challenge’: Air Force vet becomes two-time living organ donor
Air Force veteran Lindsay Gutierrez is a two-time living organ donor after giving a kidney to a fellow veteran and part of her liver to another recipient.
By Clay Beyersdorfer
O’Rourke proposes new ‘war tax’ to fund veteran health care
The former Texas congressman, now seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, unveiled his proposal Monday before attending a veterans’ roundtable in Tampa, Florida, ahead of the first Democratic presidential debate in Miami on Wednesday.
7 bikers connected to Marine JarHeads motorcycle club die in crash with pickup truck
The crash in remote northern New Hampshire involved members of Marine JarHeads MC, a motorcycle club that includes Marines and their spouses, authorities said.
How far should victims have to go to prove military sexual trauma?
The Department of Veterans Affairs is opposing a new bill that would expand access to disability benefits for survivors of military sexual trauma.
By Natalie Gross
Making home ownership easier for war-wounded veterans
Advocates want to extend adaptive housing grants to make it easier for disabled veterans to buy a second home.
For veteran families, not everything about the GI Bill is worthy of celebration
Policies governing transferability of GI Bill benefits have the capacity to negatively affect some of our nation’s longest-serving veterans, says this author.
By Vadim Panasyuk
This bill would make airport security easier and ‘less intrusive’ for disabled vets
The bipartisan legislation would grant TSA PreCheck privileges to veterans who are blind or paralyzed, as well as veteran amputees.
By Natalie Gross
Thousands of veterans had education derailed when for-profit college chains abruptly closed
The vast majority of school closures have come from the for-profit sector.
By Natalie Gross
Opinion: Veterans Defend Right to Attend Career Colleges
A new movement, Veterans for Career Education (VCE), is shining a light on an overlooked group in the veterans’ community: military veterans, servicemembers and their families who graduated from or are attending taxpaying career schools (read for-profit colleges for those that continue to demonize the sector).
By Michael Dakduk and Larry Goerzen
Veterans suicide prevention efforts will include more discussions on firearm safety
VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said broaching the topic is important to save more veterans lives.
Opinion: Close the GI Bill loophole
Unfortunately, the Post-9/11 GI Bill has also failed thousands of American veterans in the last 11 years by allowing low-quality, for-profit educational programs to take their GI benefits and leave them with little in return.
By U.S. Rep. Donna Shalala