veterans issues

On Veterans Day, a group of fitness experts and influencers gathered in the California desert to put themselves through Navy SEAL training for the SEALFIT Veterans Day Challenge benefitting the Burpees For Vets charity. Here’s how you can still give back to veterans for #GivingTuesday.

Veterans face a number of adjustment challenges when they leave the military. That’s why the fitness training program SEALFIT is supporting the #BurpeesForVets Challenge, which is raising money to support them in their re-entry. SealFit coach and Air Force veteran Robert Owens explains how doing 11 seconds of burpees can help support our vets on Veterans Day. Watch NBCLX from...

Finding mental health support is a struggle many people face — but it’s an even greater challenge for our veterans, who also must contend with a military stigma about showing vulnerability. Ryan Shannon is a veteran who suffered his own mental health challenges and knows this firsthand. So he’s now working to help other vets fighting the same battle. NBCLX...

The non-profit 22Kill started as a social media movement to promote awareness for veteran suicide prevention. Now, they’ve transitioned to One Tribe Foundation, to help not only veterans, but also frontline workers and their families too.  MORE: 1TribeFoundation.org

The National Personnel Records Center (NPRC), a part of the National Archives, is responsible for providing veterans and veteran families proof of service, which are often needed to obtain military benefits like financial aid, access to veterans facilities, or burials at veterans cemeteries. But a reduced on-site workforce at NPRC offices in St. Louis has created a backlog of nearly...

Help is on the way for the hundreds of thousands of families waiting for key documents needed to unlock veterans benefits, as vaccines are finally getting prioritized for the federal agency whose slow return to the office created a massive backlog of records requests, half a million requests long.

NBCLX has learned that a key federal agency, responsible for helping veterans secure critical benefits, has gotten so backlogged during the pandemic that hundreds of thousands of veteran families are going without access to benefits they earned while serving the U.S. NBCLX political editor Noah Pransky joined LX News to share what he learned.

“I was mad as hell,” said U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.), describing how he felt when he learned of the delays last fall. “They served our country; they are true American heroes and they shouldn’t have to wait.”

Dogs have been man’s best friend for thousands of years. And they have one of man’s most important jobs – serving our nation’s heroes. Rory Diamond is the CEO of K9s for Warriors, an organization that places service dogs with veterans suffering from PTSD or other trauma.

Every year on November 11th, the country unites to honor and thank our veterans for their service. NBCLX explains the history of Veterans Day and shares ideas about how to help America’s vets, especially during the pandemic.

Lodged firmly between Halloween and Thanksgiving and occurring the in the midst of a global pandemic, it could be easy to overlook Veterans Day this year. Don’t let that happen.

Exit12 is a dance and ballet company formed by an Iraq War veteran dedicated to telling the personal stories of war through art and veteran-centered workshops.