WASHINGTON D.C., DC — The U.S. Senate unanimously passed legislation last week to extend benefits to Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans. The service members served aboard ships off the Vietnam coastline ...

Troops from the First Cavalry Air Mobile Division watch the carrier USS Boxer after arrival at Qui Nhon, Vietnam, on Sept. 12, 1965. On Tuesday, Department of Justice officials announced they will not ...

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Months after the Federal Court of Appeals ruled in favor of thousands of Vietnam vets receiving healthcare coverage for illnesses related to Agent Orange, the secretary for the ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Navy Veterans who served in the territorial waters of Vietnam are now presumed to have been exposed to herbicides such as the toxic defoliant Agent Orange. After dozens of 8 On ...

Marines come ashore in a swarm of landing crafts near the demilitarized zone in Vietnam on Sept. 15, 1966. For the second time in the last year, House lawmakers on Tuesday passed legislation to grant ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act into law on Tuesday. The law will extend benefits to Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans who served aboard ships off ...

A federal court ruled in late January that Vietnam veterans who served on ships offshore during the war are eligible for benefits to treat illnesses linked to exposure to the chemical herbicide Agent ...

WASHINGTON - Navy Vietnam veterans elated by a federal appeals court ruling that they say rights a 50-year-old wrong descended on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, pressing Congress to expand benefits to ...

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 ...

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 ...