Just as older veterans are redefining what it means to live as a senior citizen, VA, since 2021, has been reconstructing the landscape of health care for the nation’s veteran population. The future of health care requires bold approaches that truly value older veterans, consider their wishes, address their unique needs, and provide them with the best care possible. VA’s concern for older veterans has motivated the Department’s Office of Geriatrics and Extended Care to

The United States Air Force (USAF) celebrates its 77th birthday this Wednesday, September 18. World War II was over two years before and the Korean War lay three years ahead when the United States Air Force ended a 40-year association with the Army to become a separate service. With the signing of the National Security Act of 1947 by President Truman on September 18 of that year, the Air Force was created to establish airpower

Constitution Day and Constitution Week commemorate the adoption of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787. Constitution Day this year falls this Tuesday. The observance of Constitution Week runs annually September 17-23. Officially enacted on August 2, 1956, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower from a congressional resolution petitioned by Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Constitution Week carries the tradition of a Presidential Proclamation that continues today. A major purpose of the observance week is

Multiple Veterans Service Organizations, including BVA, joined together this week to call on Congress to pass supplemental legislation before September 20 in what is expected to be a government budget stopgap continuing resolution. Besides a $3 billion shortfall for the remainder of the year, VA officials have confirmed that they are asking Congress to include, in the same bill, an additional $12 billion for the Department’s 2025 medical budget. The measure must be passed by