It's been nearly a year since last year's audit detailing just how dire things are for veterans in need of medical attention , and apparently, not all that much has changed. According to veteran Ted Koran, he recently called the VA's suicide hotline only to be be put on hold for up to ten minutes at a time—multiple…
Army veteran Darin Welker, 36, has been raising 14 ducks as a form of therapy after sustaining a back injury in Iraq in 2005. Welker started keeping the ducks in the yard of his West Lafayette, Ohio home since March of this year, and has since received citations from town officials, who are demanding he get rid of…
President Obama plans to announce Monday his nomination of Robert A. McDonald, the retired CEO of Procter & Gamble, as the next secretary of the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs. McDonald's nomination will be one month from when Eric Shinseki resigned from the same post amid allegations that patients were…
According to a new audit of the hospitals and clinics run by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, more than 57,000 patients have been waiting more than three months for medical care.
Now that Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki has fallen on his sword, the agency can finally give our growing population of ill and aging vets the care they deserve, right? Not according to the many frazzled VA employees who have sent Gawker their stories. Here's one.
We've brought you three previous installments of true stories from military veterans about dealing with PTSD and life after war. Today, two more stories from friends of soldiers.
According to the Army Times, Veterans regional offices will be closed and "nobody will answer their phones beginning Tuesday morning as the government shutdown forces furloughs of 7,000 employees of the Veterans Benefits Administration." Support our troops, indeed.
We are collecting and publishing true stories from U.S. military veterans about their experiences on the homefront, dealing with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the aftereffects of military service. This week: PTSD survivors speak out.
The US Department of Veterans Affairs is struggling to improve its backlog of hundreds of thousands of claims from injured veterans. Meanwhile, the veterans themselves struggle with physical and mental trauma. These are true stories from U.S. military veterans about their battle on the home front.
