Veterans of Foreign Wars has proposed that all sailors and Marines who have been awarded a Combat Action Ribbon since Pearl Harbor should receive a medal.

The U.S. Air Force is still confident a design will be selected as planned this fall for the armed service's controversial rescue helicopter replacement program, even though forthcoming draft findings of a Defense Department inspector general investigation could slow the process of announcing a winner.

The VFW is calling on airlines to allow servicemembers traveling on orders to check a third piece of luggage without paying a $100 fee. VFW President George Lisicki made the request in a letter to the head of the Air Transport Association of America.