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...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
