An Air Force reservist who produces early-morning television out of Kentucky has received a regional Emmy Award for her team’s coverage of a deadly UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville. Staff Sgt. Tabitha Awoniyi, a member of the commander’s support staff with the 442nd Force Support Squadron at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, received the award July 25 as part of WLKY-TV’s morning news team. The news team won the Morning, Daytime, or Weekend Newscast Category for its coverage of the Nov. 4, 2025, crash of UPS flight 2976, according to a 442nd Fighter Wing news release. When she is…
A Marine Corps Veteran living in Arizona was prepared to give up his three elderly dogs that had been with his family for over 10 years after he was left homeless and unable to transition them to a new place. An employee at Maricopa County Animal Care and Control helped Rick Dennis find housing where all four of them could remain together. Through the Department of Veterans Affairs, Dennis found alternative means of living. The problem was that the housing was unable to accommodate the animals. With this in mind, the Marine veteran opted to live out of his car…
A veteran takes a lump-sum payment on the way out of the military and files for disability years later. They then move on with life. Eventually, a letter arrives from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The monthly disability check, it says, will not be coming. Not reduced, mind you. Withheld entirely, month after month, until the government recovers separation pay it handed the veteran years or even decades earlier. That is the practice two U.S. senators are now trying to stop. How they would stop it says a lot about what kind of relief disabled veterans might see. A Democrat…
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Tatyana Jordan breathed a sigh of relief, maybe her biggest, as she learned the outcome of a months-long internal Army investigation. Military.com was the first to report how Jordan, 30, of Columbia, S.C., alleged that her superior made derogatory and racist remarks toward her in 2025 as she worked at Fort Jackson. Jordan, a Black female U.S. Army captain and Adjutant General (AG) officer, came to the Chaplain School in January 2025 on active duty and served as a force management officer. She claimed that on Aug. 13, 2025, her supervisor, Chaplain Maj. Edward Blackledge, purportedly made a remark involving…
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Americans have built an enormous nonprofit infrastructure around the men and women who served in the military. There are organizations helping veterans find jobs, navigate benefits, improve their physical and mental health, reconnect with their communities, pursue education, overcome homelessness and make the transition from military to civilian life. More than 40,000 veteran-focused nonprofits have operated across that landscape, according to previous research cited by Time. Yet the sheer number of organizations, and the billions of dollars that flow through the broader veteran-support ecosystem, raises a deceptively simple question: How do we know which programs actually work? For many veteran…
The previously unclaimed remains of 15 U.S. military veterans will be escorted across Pennsylvania on Friday before receiving a funeral with full military honors at the Indiantown Gap National Cemetery. The group includes seven Army Veterans, three Air Force veterans, four Marines, and one Navy veteran, according to a recent announcement from Delaware County. The remains of the heroes were being held at the Medical Examiner’s office in Delaware County before the Missing in America Project helped arrange the proper transfer and burial of the veterans. The dignified transfer was scheduled for 10 a.m. on Friday at the medical examiner’s…
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A U.S. Marine Corps veteran has sued a popular Illinois steakhouse, claiming that their food left him “bedridden” with permanent brain injuries. Attorneys representing Joe Belgio, who became a firefighter after his time in the Marines and is now confined to a hospital bed, announced a lawsuit and fundraiser on his behalf, according to ABC News. The suit claims that Belgio became ill after being served oysters allegedly contaminated with bacteria and other dangerous pathogens during a meal in July 2025 at Gibsons Steakhouse in Oak Brook, Ill. The business started in 1989 in Chicago with the first of its…
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The Pentagon has given major defense contractors 21 days to submit plans showing that they can produce and deliver critical weapons systems at a much higher pace, as recent combat operations around the globe have severely dwindled some stockpiles. Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg issued the directive in an Aug. 5 memo to industry leaders. The memo calls for companies to propose an uptick in production for such weapons systems deemed critical. “Years-long development cycles are not acceptable,” Feinberg wrote. “We must dramatically accelerate our program schedules and expand our production capacity now.” The memo was directed toward major defense…
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Veterans owned about 1.6 million U.S. businesses in 2023, generating roughly $1 trillion in receipts. But their share of American business ownership has been shrinking as older veteran entrepreneurs retire and fewer younger veterans replace them. A free New York University program accepting applications this month is aimed at veterans and military spouses trying to enter that pipeline. NYU Tandon School of Engineering has opened applications for VET-1, a six-session online entrepreneurship course for people who are new to business ownership. The evening program begins Sept. 8, requires no previous business experience and is free to participants. Applications are due…
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