The unemployment numbers for recent veterans have been abysmal for a while - 11.7% in December. And this week brings news that the numbers have gotten drastically worse since then, reaching an astonishing 15.2% in January.

[module align="right" width="half" type="pull-quote"]One out of every four young veterans in California is looking for a job.[/module]Meanwhile, the national employment rate dropped slightly in January from 9 ...

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You might have missed this heart-tugger tucked into the bottom of yesterday's roundup: the parents of Colton Rusk, a young Marine killed in Afghanistan, have adopted his bomb-sniffing dog, Eli.

Randy Roughton's story about Rusk and Elipaints a picture of a pair that - as you might imagine - were quite close. When Rusk was told to leave Eli out of the chow ...

While gay and lesbian veterans and servicemembers celebrate the ability to serve openly in the military, transgender veterans are continuing to fight for a place. The AP's Lisa Leff has written a comprehensive, fascinating look at this movement, with a special emphasis on San Diego-based veteran Autumn Sandeen:

As Leff points out, "Military regulations state that men and women who identify with or present a gender different from their ...