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Nation salutes Purple Heart veterans
August 6, 2025 — Purple Heart Day is a time to honor and remember service members who were wounded or killed by an instrument of war in the hands of an enemy or while prisoners of war. ... MORE

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Finding the missing is the nation's 'ironclad commitment,' Austin says
September 23, 2024 — Locating and identifying the remains of service members killed in conflicts is the nation's 'ironclad commitment,' Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said during a National Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Recognition Day ceremony at the Pentagon... MORE

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Learn more about the AFJROTC SkillBridge Program
July 30, 2024 — The Department of Defense SkillBridge Program has established a significant partnership with Headquarters Air Force Junior ROTC, providing Air Force members with valuable internship opportunities at over 800 AFJROTC high schools across the globe. This collaboration offers a unique pathway for retiring service members to gain civilian work experience and successfully transition into post-military careers, including the opportunity to work as Aerospace Instructors in AFJROTC programs... MORE

Veterans have options to upgrade discharge characterization
June 5, 2024 — Individuals who left the military with a discharge that's less than fully honorable retain the right to upgrade that discharge even years later through the Discharge Review Board or Board for Correction of Military/Naval Records... MORE

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Around the Air Force: SECAF Flight Test, Rapid Autonomous Aircraft, JROTC Instructor Expansion
May 17, 2024 — In this week’s look around the Air Force, the SecAF experiences autonomous flight in a VISTA, researchers create and deploy sUAS in a few hours, and JROTC instructor positions are open to veterans and Guard and Reserve Airmen... MORE

In this week’s look around the Air Force, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall experiences autonomous flight in the front seat of the VISTA aircraft, researchers create and deploy small unmanned aerial systems in just a few hours, and JROTC instructor positions are open to veterans and currently serving Guard and Reserve Airmen. (U.S. Air Force graphic)

Air Force Junior ROTC expands opportunity to actively serving Guard and Reserve members
April 30, 2024 — The opportunity to serve as an Air Force Junior ROTC instructor has expanded significantly, adding thousands of newly eligible personnel. The 2023 National Defense Authorization Act created for the first time, the eligibility for non-retired, currently serving members of each military service’s Guard and Reserve components, as well as some honorably discharged veterans, to serve as Junior ROTC instructors... MORE

Air Force Junior ROTC cadets along with JROTC cadets from the other services now have a new Career Technical Education pathway at high schools across the nation and many countries and U.S. territories around the world, effective Sept. 1, 2021. (U.S. Air Force courtesy graphic)

Military OneSource provides options to military spouses, family entrepreneurs
April 25, 2024 — The Department of Defense, in partnership with other federal agencies, has options available to help budding entrepreneurs within the military community start and maintain their businesses... MORE

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Air Force Junior ROTC expands opportunity to actively serving Guard and Reserve members
April 17, 2024 — The opportunity to serve as an Air Force Junior ROTC instructor has expanded significantly, adding thousands of newly eligible personnel. The 2023 National Defense Authorization Act created for the first time, the eligibility for non-retired, currently serving members of each military service's Guard and Reserve components, as well as some honorably discharged veterans, to serve as Junior ROTC instructors ... MORE

Drill-status Air National Guard members are now eligible to apply as Air Force Junior ROTC instructors.

Military well prepared for civilian transition, official says
October 19, 2023 — Service members are better prepared for their transition to civilian life today than at any other time in history, the acting undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness said... MORE

Biden moves to improve opportunities for military spouses
June 12, 2023 — President Joe Biden signed an executive order designed to strengthen economic opportunities for military and veteran spouses, caregivers and survivors... MORE

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Operation Resiliency aims to counter veteran suicides
December 15, 2022 — Operation Resiliency seeks to take advantage of the bonds forged in combat to help end the epidemic of suicides among U.S. veterans... MORE

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Commissaries offer veterans benefits year-round
November 10, 2022 — The Defense Commissary Agency recently implemented a series of new benefits for its patrons... MORE

Basic military training commander completes first Iowa ride with Air Force Cycling Team
September 1, 2022 — The Air Force Cycling Team, known as the "Guardian Angels of the Road," recently participated in Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, or RAGBRAI. The oldest, largest, and longest multi-day bike ride in the world, the ride takes place across Iowa and is now in its' 49th year, and is quite an achievement for avid bike riders... MORE

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Air Force Cycling Team completes ride across Iowa representing Air Force, Space Force
August 16, 2022 — The Air Force Cycling Team completed a 500-mile trek across Iowa on road bicycles July 30, 2022, traveling as part of the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, or RAGBRAI, ending in Lansing, Iowa... MORE

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Review Appeal Review Board gives vets another chance to upgrade discharge characterization
May 31, 2022 — Veterans who left the military after Dec. 20, 2019 with a discharge that's less than honorable will now have the opportunity to appeal that discharge characterization via the Discharge Appeal Review Board and have their military record changed. ... MORE

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Digital memorial pays tribute to service members who died
January 18, 2022 — The Defense Department recently launched the Military In Lasting Tribute webpages to honor service members who died while serving on active duty... MORE

Bob Dole, GOP senator, presidential nominee and decorated WWII veteran, dies at 98
December 6, 2021 — Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, a wounded World War II veteran who represented Kansas in the House of Representatives from 1961 to 1969 and in the Senate from 1969 to 1996, died Dec. 5. He was 98... MORE

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DOD, VA work hand in hand for better outcomes for veterans, officials tell Senate
November 4, 2021 — Strategic planning is the bedrock of the joint effort between the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness told a Senate committee Nov. 3... MORE

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VA partners with Cybercrime Support Network to teach veterans how to fight cybercrime
October 7, 2021 — The Department of Veterans Affairs is partnering with the Cybercrime Support Network to protect veterans who are disproportionately targeted for identity theft and other online scams... MORE

The Department of Veterans Affairs is partnering with the Cybercrime Support Network to protect veterans who are disproportionately targeted for identity theft and other online scams.

Veterans with Veteran Health ID Card can shop at Military Exchange starting Jan. 1
December 5, 2019 — The Department of Defense has announced expanded commissary, Military Service Exchange and MWR access beginning Jan. 1, 2020, and established a standard for physical access to military installations... MORE

The Defense Department has announced expanded commissary, Military Service Exchange and MWR access beginning Jan. 1, 2020, and established a standard for physical access to military installations. Veterans and primary family caregivers who are eligible and want to take advantage of in-person benefits must have a Veterans Health Identification Card, or VHIC. Primary family caregivers must have an eligibility letter from the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Community Care.