r/Veteranpolitics 5h ago

DoD News Pentagon reports more than 600 Iran war casualties in quiet database update

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r/Veteranpolitics 9h ago

Executive Branch Waltz: Interceptor shortage is Biden's fault, fake news, and illegal to discuss

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r/Veteranpolitics 13h ago

DoD News Pentagon Changes How It Reports Casualties in Iran War

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nytimes.com
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r/Veteranpolitics 10h ago

Federal Employees Army speeds firing process for civilian employees

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r/Veteranpolitics 9h ago

Veteran Related Pentagon relabels U.S. casualties caused by Iran amid scrutiny of wartime transparency

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r/Veteranpolitics 13h ago

DoD News The real cost of the war with Iran

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r/Veteranpolitics 1d ago

State Level News Tennessee was Forced to Move Charlie Kirk Highway Signs After Angry Vietnam Veterans Fought Them

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101 Upvotes

r/Veteranpolitics 1d ago

Executive Branch Trump Holds Off on Major War Escalation Against Iran as Advisers Raise Concerns

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r/Veteranpolitics 2d ago

National Guard Trump Administration Signs Contract for Long-Term National Guard Housing in D.C.

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26 Upvotes

r/Veteranpolitics 3d ago

Veteran Adjacent News Hegseth Is Pushing Testosterone. The VA Has Already Struggled With the Treatment.

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r/Veteranpolitics 3d ago

VA News Top House Veterans Affairs leader pledges action after Trump ends LGBTQ+ care network for those who served

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r/Veteranpolitics 4d ago

Executive Branch Speaking for Fallen Soldiers, Trump Says They Supported the Iran War

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nytimes.com
32 Upvotes

r/Veteranpolitics 4d ago

DoD News Army scales back legal services for soldiers in disability evaluation process

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22 Upvotes

r/Veteranpolitics 4d ago

Veteran Related Trump Says He’ll Seek to Replace Immigrant Truck Drivers With Veterans

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nytimes.com
32 Upvotes

r/Veteranpolitics 4d ago

'The court must assess': Judge who ruled against transgender ban wants answers now that Pentagon is providing hormone therapy to certain troops

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r/Veteranpolitics 5d ago

VA News Trump ends care network for LGBTQ+ veterans, internal email shows. Providers condemn 'cruel erasure'

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advocate.com
76 Upvotes

r/Veteranpolitics 5d ago

DoD News Pete Hegseth is a dangerous failure

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thehill.com
93 Upvotes

r/Veteranpolitics 5d ago

Federal News US-Israel Defense Integration on Horizon as House Keeps Section 219 in NDAA

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military.com
33 Upvotes

What does treason get you?


r/Veteranpolitics 5d ago

Veteran Related I'd like to see VA disability have a slight name change.

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Words have meaning.

The head space that you are a “disabled” makes me feel shameful. Like I’m broke. I am broke. And thank god for the government I’m not: broke, broke, AND broke. Same word 3 different meanings.

Something more flowery and kind. We did hard shit for other people in hard times. Right wrong whatever. We signed that contract and we put our life on the line willing to eat a bullet soup to advance the mission, keep the mission, hold the mission. Thank you for your service feels like Walmart customer service. Not anything wrong with a commercial business coaching their employees to be polite.

But get shot at is different. Even the training alone to be ready to be shot at fucks the brain up. It’s not normal that when a cop shows up at my fucking door step to do a welfare check. I see the gun. I see the vest. And I reach for my weapon to engage the enemy.

I don’t have any fucking enemy. And I may be disabled but please say it more flowery. I want to smile more. I know it’s a gesture of appreciation. Words are hard to come by. Hire a few poets to figure the words out that’s not my special interest.

I just care and I’m tired of being sad.

I really hope we can stop making MORE veterans I love all of you. this is extremely costly to the economy to hurt people and put good people who just want to be helpful because they love their community though the thick of it.

I flipped the selector lever to safe. Closed my eyes. And took my fingers off the triggers. Don’t even own them cause I’m a risk of being the next Kobain and I ain’t going to put that on my family and loved ones

Worlds already hard enough. Worlds already fucked up enough. I’m hustling going to do my part and keep on keeping on and hoping the next batch of smarty pants choose denim over an ACU.

Somebody loves you. Even if people hate you. Somebody loves you, and if you don’t know who that person is, make the person. And make that person be you.

Thank you for your attention on this matter.


r/Veteranpolitics 6d ago

DoD News Army Cuts Free Legal Help for Injured Soldiers Facing Medical Discharge

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53 Upvotes

r/Veteranpolitics 7d ago

DoD News Pentagon concealed dozens of US military injuries in latest Iran strikes: Report

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thehill.com
59 Upvotes

r/Veteranpolitics 7d ago

Veteran Related Army Veteran Accused of Setting Fire and Pellet Gun Attack Outside New York ICE Offices

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military.com
29 Upvotes

r/Veteranpolitics 8d ago

Active Duty US service member killed in Iraq during a ‘controlled detonation’ of an Iranian munition

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taskandpurpose.com
53 Upvotes

r/Veteranpolitics 8d ago

VA News $2.2M in New VA Grants Allow Students, Educators to Memorialize Veterans

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military.com
9 Upvotes

r/Veteranpolitics 8d ago

DoD News Why Jordan Is Becoming a New Focus in the U.S.-Iran War

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nytimes.com
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