Nearly 80 years after a devastating fire tore through a Japanese military prison during World War II, a Defense Department agency is working to identify American prisoners of war who died in the blaze.

In this week’s episode of The BLUF, it’s all about our veteran athletes — and some Army soldiers — as we look at how they represented Team USA at the 2024 Olympic Games. We also take a look at this summer’s other events — the National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic and the National Veterans Golden Age Games.

Service members looking to leave the military could fill an important space in their workforce, according to offshore wind labor leaders and developers.

President Donald Trump wants to change the name of Veterans Day to ‘Victory Day for World War I,’ saying it would better highlight American military achievement.

A U.S. Navy veteran was sentenced to two years in prison for scamming fellow veterans and active-duty sailors out of some $300,000 in an investment fund scam.

Jeffrey Hutchinson, an Army combat veteran whose Gulf War experience triggered severe mental problems, was executed Thursday evening in Florida for the 1998 murders of his girlfriend and her three young children.

Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill., chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, is asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate whether former Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough and other agency leaders violated federal law when they made an urgent request for $3 billion to close a budget shortfall that did not exist.

In this week’s episode of The BLUF, host Sarah Kallassy takes a look at how to use the GI Bill Comparison tool to find the right school for you to use your GI Bill benefits. She also talks about how you can skip the emergency room by calling VA Health Connect.

The national network of more than 150 state veterans homes would benefit from greater oversight from the Department of Veterans Affairs and annual VA inspections, a government watchdog agency said Tuesday.

Funding suicide prevention efforts at local agencies that are close to where veterans live was prioritized by senators as they considered reauthorizing — and possibly expanding — a $174 million grant initiative that pays for community-based outreach services, mental health screenings and emergency clinical services.