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VA releases Equity Action Plan to tackle barriers, assist underserved veteran populations The Department of Veterans Affairs has unveiled its Equity Action Plan, which the agency said would remove hurdles for marginalized veterans to access health care, benefits and services. Read more >

Senate advances bill giving subpoena power to VA inspector general The Strengthening Oversight for Veterans Act would authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of Inspector General to compel witnesses to participate in its investigations. Read more >

North Carolina veteran escapes Ukraine with aid from group that extracts people from global hot spots Creed Burleson checked into the Radisson Blu in Kyiv on Feb. 22 with big plans. He would set up a new website design business in Ukraine over the coming days. Instead, Burleson, 62, an Army veteran, ended up in the hotel’s garage-turned-bunker two days later as Russia’s bombardment began. Read more >   Home again: Korean War veteran’s remains delivered to Maryland For more than 70 years, Sgt. Roy “Buddy” Charles DeLauter’s family wondered what became of him after his unit was sent to fight in the Korean War. On Tuesday, Buddy came home. Read more >   Eastern Iowa Honor Flight sets its sights on Washington, DC With about 89 veterans on the first flight of the year taking off early Tuesday, the Honor Flight will visit eight veteran memorials and sites over a 15-hour round-trip to Washington, D.C. Read more >

Feds: Former Special Forces soldier charged in Jan. 6 riots held secret military documents A federal grand jury in Tampa last week returned an indictment alleging that Jeremy Brown had unauthorized possession of the documents, which relate to military activities that occurred in 2004 and 2005. Read more >   ‘They’re alive because he said something’: Army vet may have saved others during Spokane shooting before he was shot Nathanael Beier yelled for people to get down before a bullet struck him in the head during last weekend’s drive-by shooting outside Lucky’s Irish Pub in downtown Spokane. Read more >   Naval Medical Center Portsmouth still trains medics on live animals; veterans and activists want it to stop Live tissue training involves sedating an animal and inflicting wounds that are then treated and then humanely putting down the animal before it wakes up, according to medical journal documents. Read more >   Special mission: Army veteran leads Pittsburgh university program to develop autonomous vehicle for others with disabilities Rory A. Cooper, a disabled Army veteran, has spent most of his adult life trying to make life easier for people with disabilities. To fulfill that mission, he proposed and created the University of Pittsburgh's Human Engineering Research Laboratories, which he has headed since 1994. Read more >   Senate advances bill giving subpoena power to VA inspector general The Strengthening Oversight for Veterans Act would authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of Inspector General to compel witnesses to participate in its investigations. Read more >   Army veteran recounts experience delivering relief supplies in Ukraine Steve Castlen, who was a legal clerk and then a military lawyer during his tours in Germany, was very much aware of the possibility of the Soviet Union launching an attack on West Germany and the NATO alliance. But he said he has been shocked by the horror he has seen caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Read more >

 

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