In December 2025, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced the most consequential restructuring of Veteran health care delivery in decades. While headlines focused on internal reorganization, the signal to the private sector was unmistakable: VA Community Care is being streamlined, normalized, and expanded—and the transformation will occur over the next 18–24 months.
With the passing of the Elizabeth Dole Act, we are entering an unprecedented period of access of local healthcare options to veterans. Having worked within VA Community Care, I’ve seen firsthand how this program can bridge the gaps in veteran healthcare. Community Care isn’t just a term you’ve heard in passing—it’s a transformative approach to delivering care that meets veterans where they are. Let’s explore why this matters now more than ever.
Veterans don’t need a lecture on firearm safety—they’ve heard enough of those. Home Front Secured is here to change the conversation by respecting their experience and providing adaptable tools for organizations to have meaningful, judgment-free discussions about secure firearm storage. Learn how to engage veterans on their terms and make a real impact.
Veteran marketing is a specialized field that demands researched insights, proven approaches, and pacing with trends that can make outreach more effective. Having designed and executed hundreds of military veteran marketing campaigns, MARCH Marketing recognizes the changing dynamics of veteran marketing and plays them forward into the year ahead. This article reviews the key aspects of this evolving field, elaborating on the essential strategies that can enable you and your company to connect with various military veteran audiences.
The rapid growth of Over The Top (OTT) streaming media make it one of the most powerful options to reach military recruiting prospects in 2021 and beyond. We are entering the connected decade of 20’s, and OTT is a great example of this with the benefits of TV and the targeting and prices of digital. With Increased consumption in winter months and as remote learning continues, OTT needs to be a cornerstone of military recruiting media. However, it’s important to understand OTT to maximize its value in a military recruiting application.
The SBA calls veterans one of the most successful group of business owners in America. So you would expect organizations would be pushing for supplier diversity through veteran owned businesses. But despite the focus on veteran employment through the diversity & inclusion community, there’s very little on supplier diversity around veteran owned businesses.
U.S. Navy Adm. (ret.) Mike Mullen coined the term “sea of goodwill” to describe the positive attitudes in the United States toward veterans and the military in general. However, amid the current sea of goodwill there is an undercurrent of discrimination against veterans, and it may surprise you where it is coming from.
25 million Americans have served in the U.S. armed forces, and you just need to look online or watch TV to see how advertisers are increasingly pursuing them. However, most companies don’t understand the veteran market segment opportunity and fewer understand their target insight. While it is not an exact analogy, thinking of military veterans as a part of the multicultural advertising mix gives marketers a framework to think about how they might act with this important market.
