North Highlands resident Ericka Butler served in the Navy for four years and the Air Force Reserve for six. Stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, she worked in one of the largest Navy shipyards in the ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to expand eligibility for Agent Orange disability benefits to Vietnam-era veterans who served at 129 locations in the U.S. during specific time frames, as well ...

When Congress created the PACT Act in 2022, it expanded the Department of Veterans Affairs health care and disability compensation available to Vietnam-era veterans who may have been exposed to the ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – The Blue Water Navy is back in Washington, this time to help service members that were exposed to Agent Orange in other locations during the Vietnam War. “Our veterans in Guam ...

During the Gulf War, Pat Abeyta, a former Army welder and mechanic, was among those sent to work the massive pits where rubber, wood, plastics and other trash was burned, sending toxic substances into ...

An Air Force C-123 flies low along a South Vietnamese highway spraying defoliants on dense jungle growth to eliminate ambush sites for the Viet Cong in May 1966. (Department of Defense) Thousands of ...

Sam Genco, a "Blue Water" Navy Vietnam veteran who lives in Pine Knoll Shores, N.C., is not automatically eligible for disability benefits even though he has a health problem known to be linked to ...

The Trump administration should stop blocking Vietnam veterans with bladder cancer and three other diseases the government does not recognize as tied to Agent Orange from getting the benefits they ...

WASHINGTON – New Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie has come out against extending benefits to veterans who served off the coast during the Vietnam War, citing high costs and ...

John Callahan figured that if he died in Vietnam, it would at least be in heroic fashion while fighting for his country. Callahan, a Hartford native, enlisted two weeks before his 17th birthday and ...