When it comes to life after service for military veterans, civilians likely do not consider – much less realize – how discharge status can impact a veteran’s life.

Veterans are served by and serve at the United States Postal Service. Like the military, the Postal Service serves society at-large and it is based on a communal culture intended to fulfill the aims of American society.

Over the past three years, the Trump Administration and Congress have made military and veteran mental health issues as well as the epidemic of military and veteran suicide a top priority.

I was telling another nurse about my chronic tinnitus - ringing in the ears. Sometimes it gets so bad, it keeps me from sleeping.

When we commissioned the report, The VA’s Vacancy Crisis last year, no one predicted that a pandemic would sweep across the globe.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed America’s worst-kept secret. Our nation has failed to provide its citizens with an adequate healthcare system that is flexible enough to regularly care for us and respond swiftly and equitably in times of crisis.

On February 28, the San Francisco VA Health Care System will join with the Greater San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) for a one-day conference on ‘Advances in Safe Storage of Firearms and Preventive Strategies for Veterans at Risk for Suicide.’

Veterans’ health care is unique to American health care: it is the largest and only publicly-funded, fully integrated health care system in the country.

Anyone who thinks the privatization of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) will work out well for veterans should read the latest article in the New York Times on the privatization of military housing.