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Joel Searls

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The early projections for the VA’s 2026 disability COLA increase

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This 71-year-old Air Force veteran will compete in pickleball at the National Senior Games

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Vietnam veteran and billionaire founder of FedEx Frederick W. Smith dies at 80

Military & Veteran Entertainment Awards pin ups

Veteran creatives honored at the first-ever Military & Veteran Entertainment Awards

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‘The Pursuit of Happyness’ was Navy veteran Christopher Gardner’s incredible real-life underdog story

The life and career of Army veteran Clint Eastwood

Legendary director, ‘Dirty Harry’ actor and Army veteran Clint Eastwood turns 95

Jessie James Decker at the 2023 Baby2Baby Gala held on November 11, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)

Jessie James Decker talks military family, songwriting, and patriotism

Loretta Swit sitting in a jeep during the filming of television show M*A*S*H, United States, August 1976. She plays the character Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Loretta Swit, popular MAS*H star, passes away at 87

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Ally Racing to honor fallen Vietnam veteran during Coca-Cola 600 with custom car

UNIVERSAL CITY, CA - OCTOBER 15: Director George Lucas (R) and Darth Vader onstage during Spike TV's "Scream 2011" at Universal Studios on October 15, 2011 in Universal City, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)

Why the Air Force wouldn’t take George Lucas as an officer

Mr. T was in the US Army before he became a 1980s cultural icon

A middle-aged man wearing a white cowboy hat with a brown band featuring star decorations, a white collared shirt, and a light mustache, smiling warmly. The background shows blurred indoor furniture.

How Gordon Logan went from the Air Force to founding Sport Clips

PARIS - SEPTEMBER 13: American author Clive Cussler poses while on a visit to Paris,France on the 13th of September 2004.(Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)

Before Clive Cussler was a best-selling novelist, he served in the Korean War

Air National Guard veteran Jack Nicholson celebrates 89th birthday

(GERMANY OUT) Deutschland, Saarland, Neunkirchen - Hooters Bar im Wasserturm Neunkirchen.- 30.11.2005 (Photo by Becker & Bredel/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

How two Army veterans built Hooters internationally

American actors Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise on the set of Top Gun, directed by Tony Scott. (Photo by Paramount Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

‘You can be my wingman anytime:’ Val Kilmer dead at 65

Two men in formal attire stand outdoors with trees in the background; the older man wears glasses, a dark suit, white shirt, and patterned tie, while the younger man wears a dark suit, white shirt, and colorful tie, with his arm around the older man's shoulder. Four soldiers in camouflage uniforms and tan boots stand on a dirt ground, eating sandwiches wrapped in paper; one soldier holds a wooden plank, and the sky is clear and blue.

Peter Buck, Subway founder and nuclear physicist, worked on nuclear reactors for the US Navy

Sunray promotional poster

Exclusive interview with the Royal Marine Commandos who created ‘Sunray: Fallen Soldier’ film

HAMBURG, GERMANY - JULY 02: George Foreman poses before the WBC Heavyweight World Championship fight between Wladimir Klitschko of Ukraine and David Haye of England at Imtech Arena on July 2, 2011 in Hamburg, Germany. (Photo by Martin Rose/Bongarts/Getty Images)

George Foreman, two time World Heavyweight Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist dies at 76

Actor and military veteran Kurt Russell continues to grace the screen

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