One-Third of Military Veterans Have Been Arrested. To Help, We Need to Identify Them at the Justice System's Front Door. One in three of our 19 million veterans report having been arrested and booked at least once, and roughly 181,500 are behind...
Why a Small Motto Change Could Have a Big Impact on Female Veterans' Health The step, updating the VA's mission statement to remove male pronouns, "him" and "his," is a small move toward inclusivity...
What Is Happening at Fort Hood? "What's happening at Fort Hood?" That's the question I asked a congressional committee on July 29, 2020.
5 Reasons Veterans and Military Families Should Be Concerned About TikTok Congress and the Biden administration are currently considering bans or requiring changes to ownership for the popular social...
A String of Assassinations in Afghanistan Points to ISIS Resurgence with US Officials Warning of Possible Attacks on American Interests "Since returning to power in Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban have struggled to contain the Islamic State Khorasan province...
The First Casualty of War Is Truth: Iraq 20 Years Later Four months prior to the invasion of Iraq, I found out that the George W. Bush administration was selling the war to the...
Amid the Rising Tide of Hate, What Happened to Countering Extremism in the US Military? "Those in positions to cause change inside the military and out must embrace the long road ahead to fully address extremism...
The New Tricare Pharmacy Contract: Delivering Value for Military Families and Taxpayers Under the new contract, 98% of Tricare beneficiaries live within 15 minutes’ driving time of a network retail pharmacy, and...
Overclassification Overkill: The US Government Is Drowning in a Sea of Secrets The U.S. faces far more threats to its national security than from spy balloons or classified documents discovered in former...
The Army Needs to Explain What’s Going on With the Black Hawk Replacement For the past 40 years, the U.S. armed forces and our allies and partners have flown Black Hawks for countless missions --...
Trump Administration Fires Female Vice Admiral Amid Widening Purge of Military Officers Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield who began her career as a helicopter pilot and was the first woman to be president of the Naval...
Coast Guard Secretary? The Trump Administration Is Planning a Big Redesign of the Service. The complete document of Force Design 2028 has yet to be publicly released, but it calls for a larger workforce...
Everybody Hates You When You Are 23 ... or 43. What Every Veteran Job Seeker Needs to Know In the civilian work world, it seems like everybody hates you when you are 23. If you are a transitioning military member or...
South Dakota Airman Accused of Murdering Native American Woman Could Face Death Penalty Airman Basic Quinterius Charles Chappelle was originally charged with second-degree murder last month after local authorities...
Army Planners Are Weighing Force Reductions of Up to 90,000 Active-Duty Soldiers The Army is quietly considering a sweeping reduction of up to 90,000 active-duty troops, a move that underscores mounting...
