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Vietnam Veteran Emmitt Yeary tallks about his time in the service and the founding of the Veteran's Park in Abingdon. DAVID CRIGGER/BHC

Emmitt Yeary - Vietnam War

ABINGDON, Va. — Emmitt Yeary was a captain in the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, stationed in Vietnam, when he received a letter postmarked A…

A military surgeon performs an emergency appendectomy as other medical team members assist. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Andrew Brame/U.S. Navy).

‘They’re judge and they’re jury’ — How the military’s malpractice claims process is failing troops and families

Special Forces Master Sgt. Richard Stayskal began having problems breathing in March 2017, and within months he was coughing up blood. Military docto…

The Healthcare Maze #8 - Veterans Medical Debt

We continue our discussion of medical debt in the U.S. This episode focuses on veterans medical debt. We are pleased to have Jerry Ashton as a gues…

Pictured: Col (ret) US Army Mikel Burroughs, Jerry Ashton, Navy vet along with his RIP Medical Debt co-founder Craig Antico — NYC Veterans Day Parade 2017

Coming Together — So That Our Veterans Don’t Fall Apart — the Veteran Mission Possible Campaign Veterans Day Update

Most of us have seen the distressing headlines about our veterans: their rate of suicide, homelessness, drug abuse, incarceration rate, debt and more…

VMP Member Rick Johnson, CEO of VOI Health, Featured in Vermont's "Seven Days"

VMP member Rick Johnson, CEO of VOI Health, was featured in Vermont’s Independent Voice Seven Days article article as one of five of Vermont’s compan…

Judge Orders Navy to Review the Medical Discharges of at Least 3,700 Sailors and Marines

More than 3,770 sailors and Marines who were medically discharged between Sept. 12, 2016, and June 11, 2018, may be eligible for medical retirement f…

I Have Had All I Can Take

“Aren’t you Ernie Pyle?” the man asked. He was an officer—a medic. He held his helmet at his side. Ernie looked up from his champagne cocktail in th…

Be the Story

As part of my participating in the filming of a documentary on vulnerable veterans with Let’s Rethink This founder Jerry Ashton and acclaimed documen…

Illustration - Vic Guiza

Throwing the Dice for $20 million to Reduce Veteran Suicides — A Major VA Gamble

What do you do when you exhaust your tools and approaches to what has become an intractable problem, and find yourself at an impasse? If you are the…

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