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VA accelerates effort to get new employees at their jobs sooner to keep up with health care demands

The Department of Veterans Affairs will hold events in November to rush new employees into place and fill vacant posts faster as the agency works to hire 50,000 workers yearly to keep up with the demands and trends affecting veterans' health care.

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Texas veterans’ startup is creating a digital app for military K-9 record-keeping

A tech startup in Texas is modifying software designed for combat medicine and putting it to work tracking the health and wellness of military K-9s.

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Washington veteran returns from harrowing Ukraine front-line duty

Iraq War veteran Carl Larson spent many tough weeks in the front-line trenches of northeast Ukraine. Since his return home, he has been raising money to buy generators and other supplies for the International Legion of Defense of Ukraine troops.

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From Camp Pendleton to Cuba: Marine remembers the invasion that almost happened

When Thad McManus, a retired teacher who lives in Poulsbo, Washington, spoke about the Cuban Missile Crisis to his history students at Sammamish High School in Bellevue, he wasn’t quoting from a book. He’d been there.

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Daniel Smith, Army veteran and one of the last children of enslaved Americans, dies at 90

Daniel Smith, an Army veteran who was 90 when he died at a hospital in Washington, D.C., was one of the last remaining children of enslaved Black Americans, and a rare direct link to slavery in the United States.

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Louisiana prison program built upon military pillars is changing inmates' lives

A handful of inmates at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in Louisiana began a veterans mentorship program in 2018. The program has spread to four tiers in one of the dormitories and includes over 130 participants.

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District judge exploring need for veterans treatment court

A Maryland District Court judge is studying if Frederick and Washington counties need a court to specialize in criminal cases involving veteran defendants.

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