By Matt Saintsing Eighteen years have passed since Kevin Blanchard first stepped foot on the mountain in Snowmass, Colorado. As a...

By Medina Ayala-Lo, Public Affairs Specialist, Bay Pines VA Healthcare System SNOWMASS, Colo. – Five decades ago, earning the title of...

By Janelle Beswick, Interim Public Affairs Officer, VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System SNOWMASS, Colo. – Her eighth trip to the...

By Janelle Beswick, Interim Public Affairs Officer, VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System SNOWMASS, Colo. – At the top of the mountain...

By Medina Ayala-Lo SNOWMASS, Colo. – Draped in neon orange fleece, the assembly of Veterans and coaches who comprise the Miami VA...

By Janelle Beswick, Interim Public Affairs Officer, VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System SNOWMASS, Colo. – With seven gold medals and...

By Janelle Beswick, Interim Public Affairs Officer, VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System SNOWMASS, Colo. – One warm August night in...

By Medina Ayala-Lo, Winter Sports Clinic writer SNOWMASS, Colo. – If life has taught anything to U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Erik Jansson,...

By Kevin C. Miller After a yearlong deployment to South Korea, Army mortarman Jeremy Miller finally returned home to his wife, Viola, at...

By Medina Ayala-Lo SNOWMASS, Colo. – For U.S. Air Force Reserve Citizen Airman Maj. Monica Riggs, “aiming high” isn’t a belief that’s...

By Janelle Beswick, Acting Public Affairs Officer VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System SNOWMASS, Colo. - Command Sergeant Major...

By Donna J. Bell, communications director, VA Office of Integrated Veteran Care “Anger is not a perfect circle of stages you work through...

BY ELIZABETH DEPOMPEI Brenda Reed out-processed from the Army on crutches. Reed had injured her foot while running in ill-fitting combat...

BY BRIAN BUCKWALTER When Army Veteran Erik Castillo came out of a nearly two-month coma, he was at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in...

By Medina Ayala-Lo Winter Sports Clinic writer SNOWMASS, Colo. – It’s been nearly three decades since U.S. Army Veteran Brent King and...

Matthew Kosto has an honest, if not blunt, catchphrase: Life doesn’t suck. It’s a mantra that took on a new meaning for him after he lost...

SNOWMASS, Colo – John Wade, or Big John, as he is known to the Winter Sports Clinic community, also goes by his own self-proclaimed...

The first time combat-wounded Army veteran John Thomas went fly-fishing, he found peace. “It was [like] no other feeling,” he said. “I...

On a cold clear morning, sunlight glints off snowbanks as a line of snowmobiles zip through groves of aspens and towering firs. Pyramid...

For nine years, doctors tried to repair Sandi Braunstein’s leg. She injured it twice in back-to-back incidents in 2007 while she was in...