On January 1, the Department of Veterans Affairs marked an important milestone in its journey to implement the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019. President Donald Trump signed the act into ...

VA Must Pay Retroactive Benefits to Blue Water Vietnam Vets The U.S. Veterans Administration must honor the terms of a 1991 settlement and pay retroactive benefits to thousands of Navy veterans who ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has no plans to challenge a court ruling last week ordering it to make retroactive payments to a small class of "Blue Water Navy" Vietnam veterans and their ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs is reviewing thousands of rejected claims from Vietnam War veterans who were denied benefits but may now be entitled to retroactive compensation. Under ...

The federal government finally ran out of excuses to delay Agent Orange-related claims from “Blue Water” Navy veterans. But the Trump administration’s Department of Veterans Affairs is still dragging ...

Vietnam Vets Take Fight for Agent Orange Benefits to Court The U.S. Veterans Administration should pay retroactive benefits to thousands of Navy veterans who served on ships off Vietnam’s coast for ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. - Willie C. Clark, Deputy Under Secretary for Field Operations, discusses the implementation of the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019 and what Veterans can expect from ...

FILE - In this May 1966 file photo, a U.S. Air Force C-123 flies low along a South Vietnamese highway spraying defoliants on dense jungle growth beside the road during the Vietnam War. (Department of ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Phil Roe spent six terms as the congressman for the First District of Tennessee. He served on the Veterans Affairs Committee and passed several bills to benefit veterans ...

A veteran of the Vietnam War, Bob Meyer remembers his life before, during and after those years. Assigned to the USS Buchanan, Bob spent time in the Gulf of Tonkin in the South China Sea. The USS ...