07Mar My Sincere Thanks to the Advocates at Alpha for Changing My Life I'd never talked to anyone about problems I faced every day. I was a Marine. But Alpha detected [...]
Veterans Unable to Afford Legal Representation May Lose the Right to Justice Fees paid to attorneys by the federal government for their services in representing low-income [...]
Veterans Should Go After the Disability Benefits They Justly Deserve As a veteran of two tours of duty in Iraq, I understand how a lot of young soldiers feel after [...]
How Your Medical Discharge Could Affect Your VA Compensation Benefits Allen Gumpenberger discusses the military's complex medical separation and disability rating [...]
More Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange in Korea Can Access VA Health Care and Disability Benefits A new VA regulation expands time period of service for veterans who were exposed to Agent [...]
19Jan Alpha Advocates Get Veterans the Most. Is it Worth the Cost? You may have been told by a fellow veteran or Veterans Service Officer (VSO) at a volunteer [...]
Unhealed Trauma – PTSD in World War II Veterans Would a veteran from an earlier war connect emotional problems such as depression to PTSD and [...]
Did Camp Lejeune’s Contaminated Water Supply Lead to Illnesses? From 1957 to 1987, chemicals flowed freely into the water supply used by Marines and their [...]
VA Identifies More Diseases as Causes for Chronic Illness in Veterans of the Gulf Wars and Afghanistan A final regulation on nine infectious diseases associated with service in Southwest Asia and [...]
Burn Pits Suspected as Cause for Respiratory Illness and Disability Concerns are building about whether or not the routine burning of waste products in open-air [...]
10Sep Three Diseases Added to Presumptive Conditions for Vietnam-era Veterans The Veterans Administration (VA) has added three more diseases to its list of 12 conditions [...]
10Sep My Desperation to Find Help for My Friend Led Me to Alpha Bob had pride. He didn’t want any “handouts.” My friends told me, though, that he might qualify [...]
