Your commissary benefit just got even better, thanks to additional funding the DoD is providing as part of its “Taking Care of Service Members and Families” initiative. DoD recognizes that military members and families make significant sacrifices in support of our nation, and it is committed to doing right by them, including designing this program…

Do you remember roller skating, school dances, physical education classes? For many of us, moving our bodies was a daily thing when we were young. Not all of us were athletes, but we still had opportunities to get the blood flowing with movement. Maybe it has been many years since you have done any sort…

Cindy Miller never had the chance to meet her grandfather, but she was able to honor him at Fort Gibson National Cemetery 77 years after he was lost at sea. One month shy of his 36th birthday, Joseph West enlisted in the Navy on March 29, 1944. He was married with four small children at home…

November 6, 2022: Walter “Wally” Schirra Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Walter “Wally” Schirra Jr., who served as a Navy pilot during World War II and the Korean War before becoming a NASA astronaut. Walter “Wally” M. Schirra Jr. was born in New Jersey in 1923. He graduated from high school in 1940 and enrolled…

The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) has named Marika Widmann of South Texas VA as 2022 Pathway Nurse of the Year in the category of direct care. Every year, the ANCC selects two nurses from Pathway to Excellence designated organizations around the world as a “Pathway Nurse of the Year,” one for leadership and one…

November 5, 2022: Leon Day Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Leon Day, who served during World War II and took part in the Invasion of Normandy. Leon Day was born in October 1916 in Alexandria, Virginia, and moved to Baltimore, Maryland, with his family when he was only six months old. As a young child,…

Are you a nursing night owl? Do you bring your best between dusk and dawn? Right now, the VA Maine Healthcare System needs registered nurses in a number of positions to fill out their night shift team, which makes this a perfect opportunity to make the move to a VA career. Opportunities to explore Our…

Vietnam Veteran Tom Mano, the 24,000th Veteran from the Seattle area enrolled in the Million Veteran Program, “really believes” in the program. Mano was a 22-year-old college student at the University of Washington when his life changed forever. It was February 1970 and like 2.2 million other American men drafted to fight in the Vietnam War,…

VA, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness announced preliminary results of the 2022 Point-in-Time (PIT) Count for Veterans, November 1, 2022. The PIT Count is the annual effort to estimate the number of Americans, including Veterans, without permanent housing. The data show that on a single…

November 3, 2022: Arthur Whitaker Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Arthur Whitaker, a World War II Army Band Leader and civil rights activist. The Rev. Dr. Arthur Whitaker served in the military to fulfill an Army draft but later found his service to be a starting point for his civil rights activism work. He had…

If you’re interested in practicing law and would like to put your expertise to good use in support of our nation’s Veterans, VA’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) has several outstanding opportunities in Washington, D.C., that may be a perfect fit for you. They’re particularly suited to recent law school graduates or those in the…

Do you have questions about VA claim exams? Not sure what to expect? Veterans filing disability claims may feel a sense of relief when they submit their claim but still have lingering questions about what comes next in the claims process. Many Veterans wonder what will happen at their VA claim exam (also known as…