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  • Disabled Veterans Golf Clinic underway in Iowa

    Disabled Veterans Golf Clinic underway in Iowa

    Disabled Veterans Golf Clinic, week-long adaptive golf program presented by VA and DAV, promotes rehabilitation for Veterans with specific life-changing disabilities

  • Explore employment opportunities for disabled Veterans

    Explore employment opportunities for disabled Veterans

    AbilityLinks works to increase employment for disabled Veterans through a free online job board and other resources.

  • Helping Veterans overcome misconceptions about VA health care: Part 2

    Helping Veterans overcome misconceptions about VA health care: Part 2

    Because of misconceptions, many eligible Veterans don’t get their health care through VA. This blog helps Veterans understand VA health care.

  • Helping Veterans dispel myths about VA health care: Part 1

    Helping Veterans dispel myths about VA health care: Part 1

    Many eligible Veterans don’t get their health care through VA. This two-part blog dispels myths and helps Veterans understand the VA health care they deserve.

  • DAV state commander connects Veterans with VA telehealth

    DAV state commander connects Veterans with VA telehealth

    The state commander of the Oklahoma DAV eagerly tells Veterans about the services VA offers. She knows because she and her husband use them.

  • #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Stanley C. Ashford

    #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Stanley C. Ashford

    Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Stanley C. Ashford, who served as a paratrooper and senior noncommissioned officer.

  • Veteran VA Employee talks prosthetics, programs to help amputees

    Veteran VA Employee talks prosthetics, programs to help amputees

    In Bill Van Aken’s eight years in the prosthetics department, he has seen a lot of changes. A change that directly impacted him? Doorknobs.

  • DAV volunteers clean, highlight American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial

    DAV volunteers clean, highlight American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial

    In a sign of pre-pandemic times, Disabled American Veterans volunteers met May 22 to clean the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial in Washington, D.C.

  • DoD answers top 10 questions on expanded commissary, exchange, MWR access

    DoD answers top 10 questions on expanded commissary, exchange, MWR access

    The Defense Department recently announced expanded commissary, military service exchange and MWR access Jan. 1 and established a standard for physical access to military installations. Below are the top 10 questions Veterans have asked the Defense Department about the expanded access.

  • Commissary, Military Service Exchange, and MWR access extended to more Veterans beginning January

    Commissary, Military Service Exchange, and MWR access extended to more Veterans beginning January

    Starting Jan. 1, service-connected Veterans, Purple Heart recipients, former prisoners of war (POW), and primary caregivers can use commissaries, exchanges, and morale, welfare and recreation (MWR) retail facilities, in-person and online.

  • LifeWaters provides adaptive scuba programs to disabled Veterans

    LifeWaters provides adaptive scuba programs to disabled Veterans

    LifeWaters is a non-profit that improves the lives of disabled Veterans by offering scuba and scuba certifications as part of recreational water therapy.

  • How the Xbox Adaptive Controller is helping VA medical centers support Veterans

    How the Xbox Adaptive Controller is helping VA medical centers support Veterans

    Microsoft is partnering with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to provide Xbox Adaptive Controller units to 22 initial VA rehab centers across the U.S.

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Last updated December 11, 2025

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