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VA support program to buy up veterans’ defaulted home loans
The Department of Veterans Affairs will start buying veterans' failing mortgages to help them stay in their homes.
Support services for homeless veterans set to expire
Aid programs for homeless vets will end unless Congress speeds through new legislation.
Pandemic pounds push 10,000 Army soldiers into obesity
Increases were seen in the Navy and the Marines, too.
By Jonel Aleccia, AP
The fallout of the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate
Controversy around the COVID-19 vaccine may have increased general anti-vaccine sentiments in military.
Veterans Affairs drops mask requirement for all agency medical offices
Masks will still be mandated for some high-risk areas or facilities with rising virus numbers.
Troops discharged after vaccine waiver was denied can now rejoin
The services' policies for rejoining, based on DoD guidance, are basically the same.
By Karen Jowers
The COVID-19 pandemic is ‘over’ — and the GI Bill needs to adapt
About 900,000 veterans and members of the military-affiliated community use the VA’s educational benefits annually to attend school.
By Colin Andersen
Pentagon sets deadline for services to stop enforcing vaccine mandate
The services have until March 17 to end all enforcement of the former COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
The Marine Corps lifts its deployment COVID-19 vaccine requirement
The Navy also recently scrapped its vaccination requirement for deployments.
Marines scramble to recruit female drill instructors after COVID slump
There will be fewer female E-4 to E-6s available and eligible to meet drill instructor requirements in coming years.
Coast Guard vet lunges into fitness franchise
Cancer and COVID-19 both tried to throw curveballs at Christopher Alcala’s post-military career plans.
By Dave Lubach