Tag: Veterans

Mr. President, it is with great disappointment that I inform your office that despite your efforts to reform VA, the agency has done little to improve its operations to enhance Veteran access to healthcare. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Beltway Confidential

Whistleblower calls for VA czar in open letter to Trump

Scott Davis · October 30, 2017 11:00 am

Fox News aired a segment on Oct. 8 featuring John Garofalo, during which the Navy veteran showed off a glass and bronze presidential seal he made for President Trump. Garofalo later admitted he lied when he said he was a Navy SEAL who served in Vietnam and was awarded two Purple Hearts. (screenshot)

National Security

Fox News apologizes for airing piece highlighting fake Navy SEAL

Melissa Quinn · October 20, 2017 3:15 pm

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, center right, and veterans, signs an Executive Order on "Improving Accountability and Whistleblower Protection" at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Thursday, April 27, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

A good start at reforming the Veterans Administration

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2017 4:01 am

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and President Trump have been fighting since Trump's presidential campaign, with Trump notably saying that McCain isn't a war hero even though he was tortured as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War because "I like people who weren't captured." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

John McCain responds to Trump’s warning that he will ‘fight back’

Katie Leach · October 17, 2017 6:02 pm

Marshall Bush, 3, with her grandfather, President George H W Bush, as he greets veterans of war at a memorial ceremony on May 27, 1990 in Kennebunkport, Maine. A local townsman who was killed in Vietnam was honored during the brief ceremony. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander)

Washington Secrets

At 93, Bush 41 still first in line to help veterans

Paul Bedard · October 9, 2017 3:49 pm

Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford passes during the first half of an NFL football game against the Carolina Panthers, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)

National Security

Majority of veterans think NFL players have right to protest, but 40 percent won’t watch because of those protests

Kyle Feldscher · October 8, 2017 9:50 pm

The Veterans Affairs Department's internal watchdog has reportedly launched an investigation into a 10-day trip taken by Secretary David Shulkin and his wife earlier this summer.

VA watchdog launches probe of David Shulkin’s 10-day European trip

Gabby Morrongiello · October 3, 2017 6:50 pm

On an NFL Sunday filled with protests, the most indelible image might have been former Army Ranger and Pittsburgh Steelers Offensive Lineman Alejandro Villanueva (pictured). The Army Ranger veteran stood alone with his hand over his heart. His team could not agree on a unified means of demonstration -- stand, kneel, or sit -- so they opted to remain in the locker room. (Lake Fong/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

Taking a knee on the NFL

Jack King · September 30, 2017 4:01 am

Several VA workers asked openly if the reconnection effort was mostly a drive to keep up funding levels, instead of helping veterans. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Employees worried VA used veterans as ‘cash cows’ to boost funding

Eric Hannel · September 26, 2017 1:00 pm

Jacksonville Jaguars players lock arms and kneel down during the playing of the U.S. national anthem before an NFL football game. The commander of a veterans group said, "There are many ways to protest, but the national anthem should be our moment to stand together as one United States of America." (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

National Security

Veterans groups: NFL players who kneel during national anthem are ‘ungrateful’

Travis J. Tritten · September 25, 2017 6:45 pm

The hero here is Villaneuva, who served three tours in Afghanistan, then joined a football team, and doesn't care how his president disses him, or how his team turns their back on the president and their anthem. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Beltway Confidential

Alejandro Villanueva, not Trump, is the only hero in the NFL protest debate

Nicole Russell · September 25, 2017 4:44 pm

First lady Melania Trump met Prince Harry on Saturday before the opening ceremony of the Invictus Games in Toronto. Trump and Harry shook hands and exchanged pleasantries as they posed for photos. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Melania Trump meets Prince Harry ahead of Invictus Games

Mandy Mayfield · September 23, 2017 7:39 pm