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Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald has described 2016 as a "make or break year" for the department.
But the outcome largely depends on whether Congress can pass major legislation to change the disability appeals process, access to VA health care and accountability procedures for senior executives at the department.
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Military Times
Two companies have joined UnitedHealthcare in protesting military contract awards worth up to $58 billion to manage the Tricare health program, including one of the winning bidders, Government Accountability Office officials said.
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The Washington Times
A London-based think tank has concluded that more than 33 percent of Western anti-Islamic State fighters are American and usually military veterans.
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue recently released a report titled "Shooting in the right direction: Anti-ISIS foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria," referring to the terrorist group by an acronym. The nonprofit organization used a database of over 300 foreign fighters from Western nations to glean an American subgroup of roughly 100 men, mostly veterans.
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Los Angeles Times
It's been a symbol of honor that no one wants.
The gold star denoting a family member who died in combat dates back to World War I, but before last week, the phrase "Gold Star family" wasn't as widely known as it was during World War II.
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Military.com
Marine veteran Joyce Ralph sometimes stays at home in Massachusetts instead of going for a bike ride or doing other things she likes to do. She feels too anxious because of her post-traumatic stress disorder. Army veteran Paul Miosek sometimes feels isolated at his home in New York. No one else he knows is in a wheelchair.
The two were among a group of about 50 veterans who took part in July in the Veterans Affairs New England Summer Sports Clinic in Rhode Island. For a week, they kayaked, water skied, cycled and sailed — activities designed to get them and other veterans thinking more about what they can than can't do.
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The Washington post
The new chief executive of the Wounded Warrior Project, one of the nation's largest veterans charities, said he anticipates laying off an undisclosed number of employees and cutting the amount of financing it provides smaller veterans groups amid a restructuring that follows scrutiny of the nonprofit organization's spending.
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Yahoo Finance
Struggling military veterans will have access to new housing and resources to help end the cycle of homelessness, as construction is now underway for a new, affordable-housing community in Minneapolis.
During a ceremonial groundbreaking for Veterans East, veterans groups, project partners and community leaders heralded the new development as vital in helping end homelessness among military veterans in Minnesota. According to Heading Home Minnesota, a public-private partnership to end homelessness, more than 10,000 Minnesotans are homeless on any given night, including more than 279 veterans.
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