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In the continuing effort of ensuring a safe and secure environment, while still providing open and accessible service, the Department of Veterans Affairs would like to remind you that possession of firearms is illegal, under Federal law, at all VA facilities and properties.

Michigan Senior Veterans have an experience attorney to assist them in claiming their non-service connected pension, otherwise known as the Aid & Attendance VA Benefit.

VA is hosting a free Veteran Hiring Fair in Detroit June 26-28. The event will coincide with the National Veterans Small Business Convention and offer career opportunities, workshops, and resume building.

Brianna and Andrew Pavlak go grocery shopping on weeknights when there are fewer shoppers because Andrew, a National Guard veteran, gets nervous in crowds.

If so, VA Research would like to invite you to register and attend our national forum event on Thursday, April 26 in Washington, DC. This year’s theme is, Caring for Veterans through Discovery and Collaboration.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki today announced that the department would add approximately 1,600 mental health clinicians – to include nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers as well as nearly 300 support staff to its existing workforce of 20,590 mental health staff as part of an ongoing review of mental health operations.

The Department of Veterans Affairs Voluntary Service (VAVS) joins a grateful Nation to celebrate National Volunteer Week, April 15-21.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is awarding more than $2.4 million to make improvements, including energy conservation measures, to the Colorado State Veterans Home at Rifle.

Every Sunday for the last four years, 70-year-old Bob Rosebrock has faithfully manned his post at the corner of Wilshire and San Vicente boulevards, just feet from a sprawling park at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus.

The Veterans Affairs Department is making progress on its pledge to end homelessness among veterans, with a focus on getting all homeless veterans off the streets by 2015, VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki told American Forces Press Service.

African American Veterans with hard-to-control diabetes made significant gains in keeping their blood sugar under control after working with “mentors” with similar health problems, according to a recent study by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The ongoing disgraceful disrespect toward America's Veterans and the American Flag at the Los Angeles Veterans Home and Hospital defies anything in modern-day history.

Five years after suffering a traumatic brain injury in combat, Chris Carver is among a growing legion of veterans from operations in Iraq and Afghanistan who have discovered the healing power of helping other wounded warriors on their road to recovery.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) received a second- and third-place ranking in the annual Human Capital Management for Defense Awards given to federal agencies at a Washington ceremony March 14.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is awarding nearly $800,000 to renovate the heating, ventilation and air conditions systems at Fairchild and Shermanske halls at the Wisconsin Veterans home in Union Grove.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has released the second in a series of annual reports from its Gulf War Veterans Illnesses Task Force, outlining how the department will address the concerns of Veterans deployed during the Gulf War of 1990-1991.

As disabled veterans gathered at the base of Snowmass Mountain to tackle their first ski runs on adaptive skis during the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic, they had an unexpected cheering squad: U.S. Paralympians, including two training for the 2012 Summer Games in London.

More than 67,000 Veterans spent one night homeless, living in emergency shelters, transitional housing units or on the streets in 2011, according to last year’s “point in time” count conducted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in coordination with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

A federal judge Friday declined to dismiss the ACLU Foundation of Southern California's lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs over the agency's alleged failure to provide housing and services for thousands of mentally impaired veterans.

Marines may have unknowingly been exposed to radiation in Hangar 296 at closed California base.

After a decade of war, more than 1 million active-duty military personnel are expected to join the ranks of America’s 22 million Veterans over the next five years.

Three homeless Southern California veterans suing the U.S. Department Veterans Affairs for failing to provide proper housing say court-ordered mediation has not worked and are requesting the case be brought to trial in June.

The VA Western New York Healthcare System held its 'Hire a Hero' job fair at the VA hospital in Buffalo on Saturday.

As a leader in health research, VA prides itself on delivering care to Veterans that is supported by scientific evidence and input from experts.

Since the Post-9/11 GI Bill was enacted in 2008, VA has issued approximately $17.24 billion in benefit payments to 702,576 individuals and their educational institutions.

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

The summer of 2005 began as an ordinary summer for Marine Corps Veteran Calvin Bowman. He would go to work, come home, eat red beans and rice with crawfish or shrimp and listen to some good ole jazz.

The number of women Veterans attending VHA for healthcare has doubled between 2000 and 2010.

A special group of Veterans gather at VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS) once a month for guidance on handling vision loss and updates on services available from both VA Pittsburgh and the community.

The sole purpose and responsibility of the VA is to assist our nation’s veterans. I believe the law is clear that the VA is required to give priority consideration to qualified Veteran Owned and Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses for contacting opportunities in the VA.

A major university, the National Association of Manufacturers and an international software developer have been honored by the Department of Veterans Affairs for their contributions to a new digital badge program that will make it easier for Veterans to document the skills they learned in uniform for civilian employers and institutions of higher education.

The letter from the Philadelphia VA Regional Office was thick. It wasn’t a love letter. The package was received on my daughter’s birthday, February 28, 2012. It contained the VA’s denial of my pending disability compensation claim.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people.

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.

Thanks to the expanded Post 9/11 G. I. Bill, many veterans are opting to return to school. With more than 1,000 approved post-secondary educational programs, Virginia has a lot to offer veterans.

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.

Veterans enrolled in the health care system of the Department of Veterans Affairs have begun to receive personalized booklets that explain their health care benefits and contain other useful information.

VA Secretary Meets with Business Leaders VA has partnered with a number of companies in an effort to find meaningful employment for Veterans.

After years of dialogue with administration, marches, rallies, petitions, and public resolutions, the Living Wage Campaign of U.Va. began a Hunger Strike on Feb. 18th to urge U.Va to enact a living wage policy.

Tiger Woods has been one of the highest-paid professional athletes in the world and has been awarded “PGA Player of the Year” a record ten times.

Business Office staff throw creative efforts into making Valentine's Day cards.

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.