Omar ‘Crispy’ Avila tried smoking a couple of times as a teen, but he didn’t like it. But when he joined the Army after high school, it seemed like he
This article is an opinion essay written by Jasper Cravens and Russell B. Lemle of the Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute. Task & Purpose welcomes submissions on Project 2025 and veteran’s
Project 2025, a policy guide that could be the blueprint for a Donald Trump second term, would revamp the Department of Veterans of Affairs with proposals to increase privatization, narrow
A World War I veteran is the first person identified from the more than 100 bodies found in a mass grave from the Tulsa Race Massacre, 103 years after his
This editorial on the naming of July 16 as National Atomic Veterans Day is written by Abigail Spanberger, the U.S. Representative for Virginia’s 7th congressional district. From 2006 to 2014,
A medical study of long-term chronic pain in combat veterans found troubling results for two groups of women: not only were women who faced heavy combat overseas more likely to
In mid-April, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, and Sen. Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, sent a letter to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough demanding to know why
Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne during a 2021 all-female flight and airborne operation, in which two C-17s flown and crewed by women dropped almost 200 female paratroopers at then-Fort Bragg,
A candidate helps carry a simulated patient during Special Forces Assessment and Selection at Camp Mackall, North Carolina January 18, 2024. Army photo by K. Kassens. Special operators are asking
Before performing a military operation, the first thing any unit does is gather as much intelligence about the objective as possible. In fact, creating an action plan without first conducting