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May 3, 2016

‘I know how to defend myself’: SEAL who killed bin Laden responds to ISIS threat

Rob O'Neill, the Navy SEAL who killed Usama bin Laden during the May 2011 raid in Pakistan, played down the recent threat from ISIS that labeled him its top target and reportedly posted his home address online.

May 3, 2016

Army veteran shot in the back after baseball game may never walk again

An Army vet may never walk again after he was shot in the back while leaving a St. Louis Cardinals home game on Friday.

May 3, 2016

U.S. Navy veterans reunited after nearly 50 years

The last time Patrick Switzer saw Leno Martinez, they were 19 year olds serving on the USS Boston in 1968.

May 3, 2016

Report blames VA's handling of contract, change orders for Denver hospital's huge cost overrun

An investigation into massive cost overruns at a new veterans hospital outside Denver found VA officials didn't understand the complicated contract process they adopted and says they mismanaged change orders.

May 3, 2016

WWII vet transmitted news of Japanese surrender 70 years ago

By the end of the war, Stephen Dennis was a shipboard radioman helping news organizations get the word out to the world that the Japanese had officially surrendered on Sept. 2, 1945.

May 3, 2016

VA cites progress on benefits backlog, says it's one-sixth the size of 2013 record

The Department of Veterans Affairs says it has fewer than 100,000 disability claims older than four months, a "historic milestone" that is one-sixth the size of a long-term backlog that reached a record 611,000 claims in 2013.

May 3, 2016

Lester K. Metz, fought during D-Day, dead at 98

Lester K. Metz, an army veteran who took part in the D-Day invasion and later worked as a rocket powder manufacturer, died Sunday in his Salt Lake City home, his family told the Associated Press. He was 98.

May 3, 2016

Idaho residents line up outside veteran's house, protest fears of possible gun confiscation

A group of residents in northern Idaho lined up outside a U.S. Navy veteran's house on Thursday to protest claims that federal officials are planning on confiscating the man's weapons.

May 3, 2016

VA to review disability status for Marine veterans affected by tainted water at Camp Lejeune

The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will begin reviewing the disability status of Marines who developed cancers and other conditions due to exposure to chemicals that contaminated the water at Camp Lejeune (luh-ZHERN') for more than 30 years.

May 3, 2016

22 unclaimed veterans laid to rest in Utah

The unclaimed remains of 22 military veterans who died in Utah as long ago as 1996 were laid to rest on Saturday, as a large crowd came to pay the departed soldiers a final tribute.