U.S. Navy sailors from the USS Carl Vinson marched across the 6th Street Viaduct on Memorial Day in Los Angeles. (Mario Tama / Getty Images) Last month, the Pentagon automatically granted honorable ...

Until “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” was repealed four years ago, gays and lesbians could be discharged from military. Now, there’s an effort change their less-than-honorable discharges to “honorable” ones.

NORFOLK, Va. — The Defense Department's old Don't Ask Don't Tell policy barring openly gay, lesbian or bisexual people from military service was repealed by President Barrack Obama in 2010. Under it, ...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by LGBTQ+ veterans who were discharged from the military because of rules like Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell that barred them from ...

The Department of Defense reached a class action legal settlement with more than 30,000 military veterans dismissed under the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and earlier iterations of the policy ...

A federal judge in Connecticut has ruled that thousands of Navy and Marine Corps veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who developed post-traumatic stress disorder but were denied Veterans Affairs benefits ...

Financial advisors serving LGBTQ veterans who were kicked out of the military due to their sexual orientation could help them get a new discharge status — and reinstated benefits — under a pending ...

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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has long maintained strict eligibility criteria for granting benefits, with the character of discharge (COD) being one of the most critical factors. Veterans ...

Last month, the Pentagon automatically granted honorable discharges to 800 of the estimated 13,000 veterans who had been pushed out of the military during the 1994-2011 "don't ask, don't tell" era ...