How Veterans Tell Stories Through Song at the Grand Ole Opry When Richard Casper came home from Afghanistan, he had things to say that he couldn't. One of Nashville's top songwriters...
Navy Had Record High Suicides So Far This Year Amid Reports of High Stress, Quality-of-Life Issues The Navy reported a record number of suicides in the first quarter of 2024, again drawing attention to the myriad issues...
More than Three-Fourths of Tricare Directories' Mental Health Provider Listings Are Inaccurate, Report Finds The Government Accountability Office found issues with provider information such as specialty, gender, subspecialty, address...
How Ford and Blue Star Families Go Beyond ‘Thank You for Your Service’ Let this be the template for what supporting military families looks like.
Mental Health Tops List of Reasons Troops Were Hospitalized in 2023, New Reports Find Musculoskeletal injuries remained the top reason service members visited medical facilities, but mental health conditions...
Survey Finds a Decline in Well-Being Among Military Families Amid Stress and Loneliness A biennial survey finds the number of military families that would recommend service continues to decline.
PTSD Doesn't Mean You're Weak, or a Monster "Having PTSD means someone suffered trauma and is experiencing a natural reaction to it. There shouldn't be any stigma...
Veterans Crisis Line Experiences Brief Outage Due to Phone Carrier Technical Issues A technical issue at a contractor facility in Indiana was responsible for problems with the "Press 1" connection on the 988...
What to Expect in Therapy The Defense Centers of Excellence shares tips on what to expect in therapy and why you shouldn't be scared of it.
Veterans Get 3 Mental Health Visits a Year for Free with VA's New Copay Exemption The copay exemption applies to outpatient visits for mental health care and substance use disorder, according to the VA's...
Trump Gives DoD ‘Secondary’ Name as Department of War, Circumventing Congress President Donald Trump signed an executive order giving the Department of Defense the “secondary name” of the Department of...
Pilot and Influencer Ethan Guo Released from Antarctic Air Base After 2 Months After Ethan Guo landed in Chile's Antarctic territory on June 28, he was detained in a military base amid legal negotiations...
F-35s Will Be Deployed Against Drug Cartels in Caribbean, Marking Latest Escalation by Trump President Donald Trump’s administration is sending multiple F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico in operations against drug...
Trump's Veterans Housing Plan in West LA Advances Behind a Wall of Secrecy President Trump's executive order calling for a National Center for Warrior Independence to house thousands of veterans in...
In One DC Neighborhood After Federal Intervention, the Notion of More Authority Is a Mixed Bag People would like more law enforcement resources, but they distrust the motives behind the surge.