Part 3 of 3: What the rest of us can do to help

Over the past two days, we’ve detailed how and why the Department of Veterans Affairs’ disability-claims backlog came to be, and what the government is doing about it.

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The U.S. military has been routinely flying warplanes out of Qatar’s al Udied air base, just west of the Gulf state’s capital of Qatar, since 1991’s Persian Gulf War, and running the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq …

Army Major Kacie Lee flew UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters as a platoon leader for the 101^st Airborne Division in Mosul in 2003, in the first of her two deployments to Iraq.

In this December interview with the Combat Studies …

Part 2 of 3: What’s the VA doing about the backlog?

It’s bad; no one disputes that.

Monday, I detailed how the backlog came to be. Today I’ll provide details on the backlog and what VA is doing to address it.

Taken …

How do you lose a 50-ton U-30 tractor designed to tow huge C-17 cargo planes around airfields?

Better not ask the Air Force.

But feel free to ask Air Force Master Sgt. Ernest Harrison, who stumbled upon the behemoth at an …

NAGAOKA, Japan – Seven decades after the death of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in an aerial ambush in the South Pacific, Japan is still struggling with how to remember the charismatic naval commander who opposed war with the United …

The Pentagon want to kill two birds with one stone.

First, drones are all the rage in military circles. They can fly longer, don’t risk a pilot, and – sometimes – are even cheaper than manned aircraft.

Secondly, …

Part 1 of 3: How we got here.

You may have heard: there’s a big disability claims backlog at the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), the part of the Department of Veterans Affairs that handles vets’ disability …

There’s been a nasty fight going on over the huge backlog of claims among U.S. military veterans seeking disability payments for their military service. It has led critics, including our own Joe Klein as well as a guest post on …

While Pyongyang’s Kim regime hasn’t yet collapsed, a mosaic wall erected to honor the dynasty did, on the eve of the April 15 Day of the Sun festivities meant to celebrate the birthday of North Korean founder Kim Il …