Secretary McDonald looks back on two years, Servicemembers compete in Rio

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[ABOVE] Sec. Bob McDonald: Looking back on two years of successes and future opportunities

Here are the 16 Servicemembers on 2016 U.S. Olympic Team

Among the 555 members of Team USA at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, are 16 U.S. Servicemembers. The athletes represent the Army, Navy and Air Force competing in events ranging from rowing, to track and field, to shooting.

Soldier, Marine and Baton Rouge police officer laid to rest at VA national cemetery

It was another steamy morning in the south when Louisiana National Cemetery Director Maurice Roan and his seven-member crew set out to prepare for four services scheduled July 22. The motorcade arrived just 20 minutes after the previous outgoing services. With it came more than 1,000 supporters of fallen Baton Rouge Police Officer Matthew Gerald, who served in both the Army and the Marine Corps.

[Video] Million Veteran Program is now largest genomic database in the world

VA’s Million Veteran Program (MVP) has reached an important milestone when an Army Veteran from Montgomery, Alabama, became the 500,000th to voluntarily enroll in the research database program – making MVP the largest genomic database in the world.

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This week we honor Karen LeeAnn Fox.

Karen joined the Navy in 1994. She served 2 years onboard the USS Fort McHenry as diesel engine technician before transferring to Fleet Industrial Supply Center Yokosuka, Detachment Sasebo.

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