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People who never served will not understand life in military. 20 Duncanpup Sep 2025 Sep 2025 15 4506
Mass Deportations Ensnare Immigrant Service Members and Veterans 0 douglas9 Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 3171
POW Witness: He Was Forced to Watch an Execution of U.S. Soldiers/80 Years After WWII, His Story Sparks a Search 0 douglas9 Sep 2025 Sep 2025 11 3472
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Duncanpup Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 1123
The Dark Truth About Life on a US Aircraft Carrier (Sailors Never Sleep) 5 YoshidaYui Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 2328
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 Duncanpup Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 1253
Trump's SHOCKING Offer to J6 Rioter SPARKS OUTRAGE 1 YoshidaYui Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1399
'We Need to Terminate Treatment': VA Mental Health Providers Say They Are Under Pressure to Limit Care 3 douglas9 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 2329
Troops deployed to US-Mexico border will get a new medal 6 douglas9 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 1758
Bipartisan House Bill Would Restore Relocation Efforts for Afghan War Allies 0 douglas9 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 1116
Senate vote could lead to rapist's removal from San Antonio cemetery 7 douglas9 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 1778
Laura Loomer unites vets from both sides of aisle after Medal of Honor rant 5 douglas9 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 12 1788
Trump Tells Purple Heart Recipients: 'It Wasn't That Easy for Me Either' 7 douglas9 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 13 2023
My Job Was Army Cook. But Ranger School Didn't Care, and I Wasn't Going Home Without a Tab 2 douglas9 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 1722
New Login System Coming for Defense Department and Some VA Websites 0 GP6971 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 0 1110
VA to Give Veterans One-Year Authorizations to Seek Care from Private Providers in 30 Specialties 0 GP6971 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 1139
The Big Money and High Cost of the US Military's On-Base Slot Machines 2 douglas9 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 1374
Navy Scraps P-8 Poseidon That Ran Off The Runway In Hawaii Two Years Ago 0 douglas9 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1325
Police HANDCUFFED Me for Mowing Veteran's Lawn for FREE! 8 Jacson6 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 19 2537
Pentagon shifts $200 million from barracks, schools, facilities to border wall 1 douglas9 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 1206
'Nobody to Watch My Twins.' Military Spouses Quit Jobs, Families Bust Budgets in Scramble for Child Care 2 douglas9 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 1461
Am I the first Legionaire to notice political bias coming from leadership? 19 70sEraVet Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 3398
ICE agents will patrol gates of Oahu's Marine Corps Base in pilot program 11 douglas9 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 2322
For veterans sensitive to sound or light this July 4 0 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 1719
Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S. 1 AZProgressive Jun 2025 Jun 2025 14 1839
Breakfast yesterday with wounded warriors. 2 Duncanpup Jun 2025 Jun 2025 20 1776
Trump's VA cut a program that's saving vets' homes. Republicans have questions 2 littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 1546
We Asked An Expert Why Soldiers Were Marching So Badly In Trump's Military Parade, And Her Reasoning Makes Sense 7 douglas9 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 21 3392
Tricking Veterans: Using Suicide and Mental Health Struggles as a Guise for Privatizing the VA 3 GP6971 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 1648
Who's Winning the Multibillion Dollar Battle Over Veterans Benefits? 0 douglas9 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 1481

Veterans Continued...

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Any military person ordered to violate our Constitution can call 877-447-4487 0 Granny Blue Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 1490
My Dad's photo of the crew on his submarine, the Blackfish 7 Beringia Jun 2025 Jun 2025 45 3100
Bill would cover 'Forever Chemical' exposure at bases under VA benefits 0 douglas9 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 1430
Your "new" VA. 2 usonian Mar 2025 Jun 2025 6 2165
@SenatorBaldwin Today, I was in Madison hearing from Wisconsin veterans about what's at stake if the Trump administrati 2 riversedge May 2025 May 2025 8 1773
Why aren't the names of these 74 sailors on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall? 0 douglas9 May 2025 May 2025 5 1624
The moment you as a private standing in line at the range OSUT infantry training realize you should have not enlisted. 10 Duncanpup May 2025 May 2025 5 3237
On Sale for $2: A Soldier's Act of Heroism, Right Next to Used Books and an Old Toaster 5 douglas9 Feb 2025 May 2025 9 2561
VetsinTech Launches Fed Vets-to-Tech to Connect Displaced Veterans with Cybersecurity and Tech Roles 0 usonian May 2025 May 2025 4 1453
Trump's Assault on Veterans Is Already Taking a Toll 2 Eugene May 2025 May 2025 12 2032
Their Bombs Destroyed-and Still Threaten-Villages. Vietnam-Era Veterans Are Going Back to Help and Heal 0 douglas9 May 2025 May 2025 6 1568
I Left My Platoon a Day Early. I Listened as the Viet Cong Killed My Replacement 12 douglas9 Apr 2025 Apr 2025 54 4547
USS Harry Truman Was Evading Houthi Attack When F/A-18 Super Hornet Rolled Off Its Deck 8 douglas9 Apr 2025 Apr 2025 11 2608
Sailor wins $7,500 settlement after his car was towed and auctioned off while deployed 6 douglas9 Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 2319
Veterans Reunite with 'Precious Cargo' 50 Years After the Fall of Saigon 3 douglas9 Apr 2025 Apr 2025 61 3014
Crossing the Delware in 1776 2 Jacson6 Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 1792
Please welcome a new Veterans Group Moderator - GP6971 6 denbot Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 2862
Marine awarded Navy Cross at battle of Hue remembered as 'magnificent,' humble leader 3 douglas9 Feb 2025 Apr 2025 6 2114
Not Your Grandfather's Navy 0 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1762
When rank-and-file troops leak secrets, they often go to jail 0 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1570
Following backlash, U.S. Army republishes article on Japanese American unit that fought in WWII 2 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 2106
WWII, Last Surviving Battle of Britain Pilot Dies, John Hemingway of Dublin,105, RAF, Shot Down 90 Enemy Planes 1940 1 appalachiablue Mar 2025 Mar 2025 11 2148
History of the Nisei 'Go For Broke' WWII unit removed from Army website 8 bluestateboomer Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 2693
Photographing the Final Days of World War II in Germany 5 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 13 2183
Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic, and women veterans 5 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 21 3218
After the march on March 14th. 2 usonian Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 1738
? Is there a veterans march being organized for noon 3/14/2025 6 Duncanpup Feb 2025 Mar 2025 9 2797
When Drunks, Felons and Rapists control the histories of our heroes 0 70sEraVet Mar 2025 Mar 2025 15 1643
Battered by Cuts and Firings, VA Employees Describe Serving Veterans Under 'Invisible Cloud of Dread' 1 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1639
Veteran entrepreneurs say VA cuts have gutted their businesses 1 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1605

Veterans Continued...

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SecVA recent address pisses me off.. 3 bluescribbler Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1989
Veterans not mentioned once in the make-up splattered traitor's speech last night 1 Mysterian Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1494
WW2 Airman From Cleveland, Ohio Accounted for after 80 Yrs Missing, 2nd Lt. KIA, Baltic Sea, Denmark 2 appalachiablue Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1934
VA plans to lay off as many as 83,000 employees this year 2 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 2052
Veterans Affairs Advises Employees To Reply To Insulting OPM Email 3 Eugene Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1836
Fired VA health workers reinstated, but new staff don't trust Trump and Musk 1 Eugene Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 1727
Just a reminder about Moscow Mitch's evil. 7 The Polack MSgt Oct 2019 Feb 2025 2 3874
Senate rejects PACT Act protections, sending 'signal' that benefits could be cut, vet group says 3 douglas9 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 2182
Elon and Donald Have Declared War on Veterans 1 usonian Feb 2025 Feb 2025 13 1670
Fort Moore Was Named After My Parents. A Letter Mom Wrote Shows Why It Shouldn't Go Back to Benning 2 douglas9 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 12 1689
VA Disability Benefits at Risk 8 GP6971 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 22 2649
PTSD treatment wiith Hypobaric Oxygen Therapy 0 Desert grandma Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1501
For my dear friend Aristus. 5 Duncanpup Feb 2025 Feb 2025 31 2501
Wish I'd have known this back in 1971 11 KS Toronado Jan 2025 Jan 2025 8 3636
Harry Chandler, Navy Medic Survived 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor, Helped Injured Sailors, Dies at 103 4 appalachiablue Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 2577
He Survived the Battle of the Bulge & Stormed the Normandy Beaches. At 104, He Still Golfs 3 Days A Week 2 appalachiablue Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 2005
63 Years Ago Today, the First US Soldier Was Killed in Vietnam 2 C0RI0LANUS Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 1976
The cold hard truth of the matter,.. 7 YoshidaYui Dec 2024 Dec 2024 11 2502
From TRICARE Fees to Lower COLA, These Budget Options Could Gut Service-Earned Benefits 1 tinymontgomery Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 1667
Is Project 2025 Coming for Your VA Benefits? VA Disability Group PLLC 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2024 Dec 2024 6 2156
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