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The case of Katherine Glover, a Navy veteran who suffers from PTSD and was turned down for every request for disability benefits until the VA started using "a revised set of guidelines for handling claims involving sexual trauma."

March is Professional Social Work Month and more than 9,000 master's level social workers serve as licensed independent practitioners in VA's healthcare system.

Marine Corps Veteran Rey Santiago, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, discusses recreation programs with Lindsey Bernier, social worker.

Green Bay Press Gazette Wisconsin must do more to find employment for the thousands of military veterans who return from the Middle East without the promise of a job, the state's veterans affairs chief said Tuesday.

Veterans Affairs officials say they are meeting requirements laid down in a 2010 law mandating the agency to improve health care to veterans and their familes.

Edmonton Journal In the year after release from the military, veterans see a spike in income: a combination of their military pension, severance and any disability pay.

To ensure the Alabama Veterans home in Alexander City remains a comfortable and safe residence for Veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs is awarding nearly $350,000 for improvements to the kitchen at the state-run facility.

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta welcomed Secretary of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki today to the Pentagon for the latest in a series of regular meetings the two secretaries have held on issues of common interest to both departments.

If Marjorie Newman hadn't asked for help, she believes she would be living under a bridge or dead." Newman is one of the "16 veterans living at the Veterans Life Changing Services home and hoping for a better life.

Haru Okuda, MD, National Medical Director for the Simulation Learning, Education and Research Network presents Denise Cochran the 2012 Under Secretary for Health’s Excellence in Clinical Simulation Training, Education and Research Practice Award.

In my earlier writings about the Google+ platform I suggested to my readers that this Google product was perhaps the most significant leap in social media technology since the invention of the telephone.

The 82nd Airborne Division in World War II played a central role in the Battle of the Bulge, with paratroops fighting in or near scores of Belgian towns.

February is heart month and VA researchers are working hard on identifying ways to improve care for Veterans with heart disease.

Home loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs continue to have the lowest serious delinquency and foreclosure rates in the mortgage industry.

Nine employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, including Deputy Secretary W. Scott Gould, are among the top 100 leaders in the IT industry, according to the “Federal 100” created by Federal Computer Week.

On February 13, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki participated in the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the National Association of State Veterans Affairs Directors and VA.

I was invited to attend a symposium at the US Naval War College in Newport, RI last summer to learn something about how our Navy deals with terrorist threats to our fleets worldwide.

VA partnered with the First Army at Camp Shelby, Miss., to launch a streamlined version of its online application for VA health benefits (VA Form 1010EZ) for Servicemembers returning from deployment.

Political appointees serving as chief operating officers at five departments named their top accomplishments at a panel hosted by the nonprofit National Academy of Public Administration on Wednesday.

Men and Women in the military know that they risk their lives when they go into combat. What they have not anticipated is that they might be exposed to chemicals or toxins that could cause cancer many years later

Heart disease is the #1 cause of death for women and women Veterans. VA encourages all to recognize National Wear Red Day, Friday, Feb. 3, by sporting some red to help raise awareness of heart disease for all women.

“My ex-wife didn’t serve in Vietnam, I did. She wasn’t forced to killed people, I was. She wasn’t the one severely wounded, I was.

The National Veterans Small Business Conference, the government’s premier event for Veteran-owned small businesses, is coming to Detroit’s Cobo Center June 25-29.

Captain May, I am writing for The Washington Examiner, and have come across your posts on the VT website. I can hardly believe the treatment you have endured, and wish to expose the abuse veterans receive from Veterans Administration hospitals. — Sincerely, Samantha Gilman, Opinion Page

On January 19, VA held a ribbon cutting ceremony to launch a special internship program to prepare newly-returned Veterans to become federal contract specialists. View photos

The US Department Of Veterans Affairs "formally launched its new program designed to train wounded vets to become acquisition professionals with a ribbon-cutting ceremony held Jan. 19 at its Frederick, Md., facilities.

The Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center was recently selected as a Women’s Health Practice-Based Research Network Member Site by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

She walked onto the campus of the West LA Veterans Hospital in her Anne Taylor outfit and instantly could feel her throat tighten. "You OK Ma'am?" said one of the VA tour guides, a young male half her age.

The Department of Veterans Affairs mourns the passing of its first Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Edward Joseph Derwinski, who was appointed by President George H.W. Bush and served America's Veterans from March 15, 1989 to September 26, 1992.

VA will host its first Veteran Career Fair and Expo on Jan. 18 in Washington, DC. The free event is for Veterans and will provide information on education, benefits, jobs, health care, and small business opportunities.

Beyond two locked security doors on the seventh floor of Seattle's Veterans Affairs hospital (VA) on Beacon Hill, patients are treated for some of the more severe cases" of PTSD.

Two U.S. Army combat brigades will be withdrawn from Europe as part of a new Pentagon defense strategy that aims to find efficiencies while also shifting more strategic focus to Asia.

It's not just the troops who go to war, but families as well. Read about the experience of war on the homefront, told by the father of an Iraq Veteran, on VAntage Point.

As the Pentagon scales back amid looming budget cuts, it envisions a smaller, more flexible and technologically advanced force.

VA and Housing and Urban Development recently released a national report that shows Veteran homelessness fell nearly 12 percent between January 2010 and January 2011.

An Ohio-based "company is building vehicles used as mobile centers to expand veterans' access to counseling" and healthcare.

A joint US-South Korean investigation team announced that it discovered no evidence of Agent Orange during its probe into claims that the toxic defoliant was buried on Camp Carroll.

Veterans of the Gulf War with undiagnosed illnesses have an additional five years to qualify for VA disability benefits. The eligibility window has been extended to December 31, 2016.

Treatment for physical and mental wounds of war doesn’t always come in the form of medication or therapy. Rehabilitation can take other forms that speak to the expressive side of people as they sort out the difficult moments that happen during a deployment.

The Military Construction and Veterans Affairs portion" of a fiscal 2012 omnibus bill "includes larger-than-expected reductions.

The Pentagon has tapped elements of four brigade combat teams to lead the mission shift this spring, according to the Army.

The holiday season can be a time of joy, happiness and family get-togethers. But for some Veterans, it is a time of loneliness and anxiety about their future.