Eglin Air Force Base

The VA has long given veterans who served in Vietnam disability compensation for illness connected to Agent Orange. But those exposed at U.S. bases are still waiting for the same benefits.

Under an order from President Biden, the Pentagon is deploying 1,000 troops to help hospitals that are experiencing a surge in patients and have a lot of employees out sick.

Investigators are trying to determine what caused an explosion that sent a plume of potentially dangerous smoke into the air at a Panhandle Air Force…