Concerned Veterans for America, a group of policy advocates funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, who want to shrink the size of federal bureaucracies including the Department of Veterans Affairs, appears to have won a major victory with President Trump’s firing of Dr. David Shulkin as VA secretary.

Retirees and surviving spouses and their families have experienced significant cost-share increases for their TRICARE benefits over the past couple military budgets.

By Genelle Cox To celebrate and show their gratitude to the nation’s servicemembers and veterans, many companies and organizations offer discounts and freebies throughout the year. Here are six military deals to check out

Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.), chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, returned from a recent visit to Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., alarmed that the Department of Veterans Affairs might have made a bad decision last June to replace its legacy electronic health record system, VistA, with the same commercial off-the-shelf system that the military is adopting, starting with Pacific Northwest bases.