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Byline: Linda F. Hersey A new rule that makes tens of thousands of veterans eligible for benefits previously denied because of less than honorable discharges does not go far enough [...]

Byline: Nikki Wentling The Navy Discharge Review Board must reconsider thousands of cases where upgrades were denied, despite evidence that veterans were struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury [...]

Byline: Alison Bath The US Navy has agreed to review more than nine years' worth of 'bad paper' discharges given to thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans with post-traumatic [...]

Byline: Nikki Wentling The agreement is pending approval by the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. It orders the Navy Discharge Review Board to reconsider cases in which [...]

Byline: Nikki Wentling Certain discharges, also known as 'bad paper,' carry a stigma and prevent veterans from receiving many government benefits, such as Department of Veterans Affairs home loans, health [...]

Byline: Seth Robson and Hana Kusumoto The United States and Japan have been strengthening their alliance as China continues to expand its military with the stated goal of occupying Taiwan, [...]

Byline: Erica Earl YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan - Residents of this Air Force installation in Tokyo need not surrender their favorite American toilet paper brands, after all, the commanding officer [...]

Byline: Erica Earl Residents of at least one American military installation in Japan may have to purchase Japanese toilet paper to keep their plumbing working properly, according to the housing [...]

Byline: Nikki Wentling WASHINGTON - WASHINGTON - A federal court approved a lawsuit settlement this week requiring the U.S. Army to review and potentially upgrade thousands of other-than-honorable discharges dating [...]

Byline: James Bolinger MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan - Shelves at commissaries on military bases across Japan ran short of toilet paper over the weekend as service members prepared [...]

Byline: Nikki Wentling WASHINGTON - As part of a lawsuit settlement reached Tuesday, the U.S. Army would be required to review and potentially upgrade thousands of other-than-honorable discharges dating back [...]

Byline: Steve Beynon WASHINGTON - Veterans kicked out of the military due to negative behavior related to post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and sexual trauma have been upgrading their [...]

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Byline: Nikki Wentling WASHINGTON - The Department of Veterans Affairs has unlawfully turned away veterans with other-than-honorable discharges for decades because of flawed training and guidance that created a 'cycle [...]

Byline: Nikki Wentling WASHINGTON - Two Army veterans, with the help of Harvard Law School, filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday against the Massachusetts treasury, claiming it was unrightfully denying 'welcome [...]

Byline: Nikki Wentling WASHINGTON - The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Thursday that it would begin offering emergency mental health services starting July 5 to veterans with other-than-honorable discharges - [...]

Byline: Nikki Wentling WASHINGTON - More than 13,000 servicemembers separated from the military for misconduct in recent years suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury or another disorder and [...]

Byline: Nikki Wentling WASHINGTON - Eight Democrats in the Senate are seeking more details from the Department of Veterans Affairs about an announcement last week that the VA would provide [...]

Byline: Nikki Wentling WASHINGTON - The Department of Veterans Affairs will begin making mental health care services available to veterans with other-than-honorable discharges who urgently need it, VA Secretary David [...]

Byline: Wyatt Olson The Defense Department announced Friday that it is reviewing and potentially upgrading the discharge status of veterans who might have been improperly discharged for reasons related to [...]

Byline: Nikki Wentling WASHINGTON - While a measure protecting veterans with service-related conditions from receiving other-than-honorable discharges has made its way to President Barack Obama, advocates who led the effort [...]

Byline: Deb Riechmann This story has been updated. WASHINGTON - Even the nation's top cop can get things wrong. FBI Director James Comey stirred interest Thursday when he said former [...]

Byline: Matthew M. Burke and Chiyomi Sumida Origami cranes that President Barack Obama folded and donated to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum during his history-making visit are being loaned to [...]

Byline: Heath Druzin WASHINGTON - The Department of Veterans Affairs has underplayed how many veterans were using the informal disability claims process the department ended Tuesday, and some veterans advocates [...]

Byline: Travis J. Tritten WASHINGTON - Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday there is a 'tortured debate' over whether the United States is at war with the Islamic State [...]

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany - The Defense Department will soon no longer issue paper paychecks, a change aimed at saving millions of dollars in printing and mailing costs, according to a Ramstein [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - A lawsuit involving more than 229,000 veterans with hearing problems that they claim are linked to faulty earplugs issued by the military begins [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - Hundreds of pages of court documents were unsealed last week in a class action lawsuit against 3M regarding allegedly faulty earplugs it sold [...]

Byline: Will Morris A contractor has agreed to pay $9.1 million to the U.S. government for selling defective earplugs issued to thousands of servicemembers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan from [...]

Byline: Jonathan Snyder The Air Force expects that all bases will be ready for digital promotion testing by February, in a transition from paper scantrons to eWAPS - electronic weighted [...]

Byline: Doug G. Ware While the Pentagon generally has had no serious issues with the paper legacy filters, some experts say there is a safer and more efficient option - [...]

Byline: Hana Kusumoto Japan's Ministry of Defense outlined its priorities, and deepest concerns, in its annual white paper that devotes twice as many pages to Taiwan as last year's [...]

Stories in this installment focus on a court ordering the Navy to review thousands of 'bad paper' discharges, National Guard substitute teachers and [...]

Byline: Hana Kusumoto Police discovered three 'stamp-like' pieces of blotter paper soaked with LSD on the unidentified service member when they took him into custody after an Oct. 9 assault [...]

Byline: J.P. Lawrence KABUL, Afghanistan - The paper coins, or pogs, that troops have used at stores and collected as souvenirs on overseas bases for the last 20 years are [...]

Byline: Matthew M. Burke CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa - Sadako Sasaki began folding paper cranes as she lay dying of leukemia in a Hiroshima hospital 10 years after the atomic bombing [...]

Byline: Dan Stoutamire WIESBADEN, Germany - The company responsible for printing the official newspapers for some of Germany's largest U.S. military installations is discontinuing printing for two of its papers [...]

Byline: Meredith Tibbetts WASHINGTON - Eight names written on a piece of paper. All were all part of the 1/41 Infantry, 2nd Armored Division (Forward) during Operation Desert Storm in [...]

Byline: Wyatt Olson BASA AIR BASE, Philippines - On paper, Balikatan might be called an exercise, but the Marine general leading the training prefers to think of it more as [...]

Byline: Erik Slavin MINAMISOMA, Japan - Take papers dyed in springtime colors, fold them into dozens of flower shapes and sew them into a single ball. Add an origami crane, [...]

Byline: Ken-Yon Hardy ANNAPOLIS, MD. - Each year the Naval Academy has the Giving Tree campaign and Midshipmen decorate a tree with paper angel ornaments provided by the Salvation Army. [...]

Byline: Dianna Cahn NORFOLK---On paper, the charges read like an intricate espionage case - top-secret documents containing information about military movements and bomb-making methods, smuggled off Navy computers, potentially putting [...]

Byline: Corinne Reilly The paper had been generating a buzz for weeks when it showed up in Ben Kohlmann's inbox in early April. Authored by a fellow Navy pilot, it [...]

Byline: NEDRA PICKLER WASHINGTON - Hoping to head off another confirmation battle, the White House said Tuesday that it will allow senators to review a secret paper justifying the drone [...]

Marine Corps officials who tried to ban the Marine Corps Times from base newsstands or move it to less visible areas in stores did so because of the paper's reporting [...]

Editor's note/Correction: This story has been updated from its original version. An earlier version incorrectly stated the Stars and Stripes operating budget is $7.2M. That amount is the paper's DOD [...]

Byline: C.J. Lin 'I have not houses to build, except one, which I must erect for the accommodation and security of my military, civil and private papers, which are voluminous [...]

KABUL - The U.S. military is scrapping the Afghan air force's entire fleet of Italian-made cargo planes, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. U.S. and Afghan officials told the paper [...]

Byline: Wyatt Olson Frosty's made of it, kids play in it and Christmas carolers sing about it. And now we know bomb blasts can be hushed with it. That's what [...]

Last May, when Mary Ann Vecchio watched the video of George Floyd's dying moments, she felt herself plummet through time and space - to a day almost exactly 50 years [...]