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Report indicates average of more than 28,000 additional cases per year since 2021
A visitor tours the Korean War Veterans Memorial during a government shutdown on Oct. 20, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Posted July 20, 2026 at 8:52pm
Surge in veterans’ brain injuries shown in VA records
The number of former servicemembers enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs system who have had traumatic brain injuries spiked considerably in the last four years on record, new data from the department shows. The figures, which were posted on the VA website last week, demonstrate that the number of reported TBI instances in the […]
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