In One of the Marines' Most Iconic Jobs, a Stunning Pattern of Suicide Marine Corps drill instructors are a national symbol of discipline. But for some, their imposing persona belies a dark...
Reckoning with Mortality: The Hidden Toll of Being a Military Family in the Aviation Community "The aviation community is very small. The rotary aviation world is even smaller. Since I met my husband in 2010, we have not...
Burn Pit Exposure Linked to Higher Rates of Mental Health Disorders, Brain Injury A new study also confirms earlier research on a connection between burn pit exposure and suicide.
'Complex' Veterans Crisis Line Calls Passed Off to Undertrained Responders, Watchdog Report Finds In response to the GAO findings, the VA promised to assess the outcomes of calls to the complex unit compared to the main...
Tricking Veterans: Using Suicide and Mental Health Struggles as a Guise for Privatizing the VA While attention remains focused on the looming crisis of Department of Veterans Affairs employees facing termination, an even...
Navy Unit Commanders Fall Short in Suicide Crisis Planning, Watchdog Finds The service meets standards for collecting data on suicide prevention and response, but nearly 30% of commanders didn't have...
Veterans Fight to Fast-Track Study of 'Lifesaving' Psychedelic Therapy A month after the treatment, study participants experienced on average an 88% reduction in PTSD symptoms, 87% reduction in...
A Navy Veteran Is Determined to Find His Own Way Through PTSD—Without VA Each appointment with VA was another nail sealing the coffin shut, suffocating any hope that they could help me.
Veterans Crisis Line Employees Were Caught in Mass Firings. A New Bill Aims for Staff Protections. The bill comes after the Department of Veterans Affairs acknowledged in a letter to senators last month that 24 support...
Job Cuts Delay Pentagon Plans to Expand Work to Prevent Sex Assaults and Suicides Plans for a prevention workforce to address that broader spectrum of issues began in 2022, when sexual assaults and suicides...
Walks on the Mall, Shake Shack Burgers and a Car Crash: Scenes from the Guard's Deployment in DC What started as an 800-troop mission for the D.C. National Guard has ballooned to more than 2,000 troops as Republican...
Former Space Force Sergeant Fatally Shot Teen in 'Vigilante Violence,' Colorado Officials Say Orest Schur received a 54-year prison sentence after a jury in June found him guilty of second-degree murder and attempted...
Airman Killed in Off-Base AK-47 Shooting Near F.E. Warren Air Force Base Identified An airman stationed at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, who died after being shot by an AK-47 fired through the wall of an off...
VA Processes Record-Breaking Number of Disability Claims This Year, with 62% Approval Rate The department has made changes in the past several years designed to process disability compensation claims faster and...
Air Force Chief's Sudden Retirement Raises Question of 'Who Is Next' in Leadership Shake-Up Policy experts told Military.com that the departure raises alarm amid other leadership changes within the Department of the...
