VA Press Secretary talks PACT Act
Terrence Hayes is the Press Secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs and he’ll be heading up the ongoing communications around the PACT Act, scheduled to take effect on January…
4 real things Vietnam vets experienced that you won’t see in movies
We all know Hollywood tends to get a lot wrong about the military. Uniform items, tactics, and even people from history get mixed up, dropped, and/or lost along the way. But Hollywood also glamorizes a lot of what the military is and what military l…
The ‘most significant’ veterans bill in history is in the Senate right now
So-called “burn pits” have been used to dispose of waste material at American military bases overseas since the 1990s. They were used to keep potentially sensitive materials out of local…
Jon Stewart urges congress to support burn pit veterans
“Welcome to another exciting episode of when is America gonna start acting like the great country we keep telling ourselves we are?” asked Jon Stewart in a press conference in…
Why the Supreme Court’s ruling on burn pits will have catastrophic effects
Burn pits are, without a shadow of a doubt, the post-9/11 veteran’s Agent Orange. Countless troops have been exposed to the toxic gases given off by the mishandling of dangerous substances, and twelve veterans have died as a direct result …
DOD & VA to hold ‘closed door’ conference on burn pits
Defense Department and Department of Veterans Affairs officials are meeting in March 2019 in Arlington, Virginia, for a two-day symposium on burn pits and airborne p…