Nearly 80 percent of senior executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs got performance bonuses last year despite widespread treatment delays and preventable deaths at VA hospitals and clinics, a top official said Friday.
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President Barack Obama on Thursday said he was dispatching up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to help quell the rising insurgency in the crumbling state. He called on Iraqi leaders to govern with a more “inclusive agenda” to ensure the country does not descend into civil war.
With a fellow pilot’s life on the line, Nellis Air Force Base Capt. Greg “Fangs” Farrell knew exactly what to do as he flew his Fighting Falcon jet through the darkness over the Atlantic Ocean looking for him: Never give up.
A “white shirt” on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier walks us through the final exterior checks on a VFA-87 F/A- 18C Hornet before a catapult launch.
Rep. Joe Heck of Nevada and other Iraq veterans on Capitol Hill watch almost helplessly as Islamic militants push through the country that Americans fought to stabilize following the U.S. invasion in 2003.
After Lisa Freeman’s marine son Matthew died in Afghanistan, she sought a way to comfort the young ones who grieved. Her answer — turn military uniforms into cuddly bears of remembrance.
U.S. Rep. Joe Heck of Nevada is preparing a bill to cut red tape that hinders doctors at Nellis Air Force Base from treating veterans needing specialized care not available from the VA hospital in North Las Vegas.
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl spoke of his frustration with the world and his desire to change the status quo, in Facebook posts written before he vanished from his military base in Afghanistan.
Congress is moving with what one senator called “lightning speed” to help thousands of military veterans enduring long wait times for VA medical care. The Senate was poised to vote by Thursday to let veterans go to local doctors and have the VA foot the bill.
Five American troops were killed in an apparent coalition airstrike in southern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday, in one of the worst friendly fire incidents involving United States and coalition troops since the start of the nearly 14-year war.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev, charged mismanagement Monday at the veterans medical center in North Las Vegas after it was flagged for further investigation following a nationwide audit of patient wait times
A couple of Army Ranger veterans, Jerry Hocking and John B. Alexander, are seeking help to form a Las Vegas area base, or chapter, for the national nonprofit U.S. Army Ranger Association.
Career Navy veteran Ron Deanne of Henderson will do what Army Pvt. Ed Jennings couldn’t do in 1984 and pay his respects to those who participated in the Normandy invasion 70 years ago.
Just a week after the president announced that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl had been freed in Afghanistan, details emerging about the soldier, the deal and how the rescue came together are only adding to the list of questions. Here’s a look at what’s known — and unknown — about saving Sgt. Bergdahl.
Seventy years after the D-Day invasion of Normandy to liberate France from the grip of Germany’s Nazi regime, Las Vegas barber Gaetano “Guy” R. Benza, part of the Allied Expeditionary Force, returned there today to reflect on his life-changing experience.
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