In the Wake of High-Profile Suicides, the Army and Navy Are Trying to Adapt The problem of suicide -- at rates higher than the civilian population -- has been plaguing the military for years.
A Soldier Attempted Suicide in Poland. Left to Roam at Fort Riley, He Killed Himself. The unit's response to Valley's first attempt to kill himself raises questions over whether the Army's suicide prevention...
After 3 Years of Delays, Army Has Again Paused Rewriting Suicide Prevention Policies The service has been promising to rewrite its suicide prevention policy for three years, but the effort has been repeatedly...
'A 9/11-like Event': Navy Report on Carrier Suicides Cites Missed Warning Signs, Leadership Failures Investigators found that the ship had the highest number of suicide-related behaviors from 2017 to 2019 when compared to all...
Sailors Sent to a Maintenance Center Died of Suicide. The Navy Says It Wasn't Prepared to Help Them. The latest investigation noted that all of the deaths at the maintenance center were among first tour sailors who were at...
Texas Public Records Loophole Lets Cities Keep Suicide Reports from Families of Dead Soldiers When Patty Troyan's son Logan Castello died by suicide in November 2019 in his Central Texas home, she immediately tried to...
Pentagon Approving New Rules for Mental Health Access More Than a Year After Passage of Law Requiring Changes The Pentagon is moving forward with a series of changes to mental health care access required by a 2021 law that was passed...
The Army Needs to Talk About its Problem with Leaders Taking Their Own Lives If our systems work, those with the most knowledge and access should have lower suicide rates.
DoD's Top Doc Calls on Congress to Overturn Law Limiting Discussions on Guns with Service Members The Defense Department's assistant secretary for health affairs said a decade-old provision hinders the physician-patient...
Navy Unveils New Mental Health 'Playbook' That Pushes Leaders to Talk with Sailors Early and Often The release of the new document comes after a year in which the Navy saw several major clusters of suicides.
Marine Corps Says Half of Barracks Had Issues, Though Only 118 Marines Moved, After Worldwide Inspection The inspection took place between February and March, a quick time frame for a herculean task that involved looking at...
Temporary Promotions for Army Noncommissioned Officers to End in June The Army will suspend the temporary promotions starting in June in one of the most significant changes to its promotion...
Marine Corps Aims for a New Way of Teaching, Ditching Old Models of PowerPoint Lectures The service will focus on the individual Marine's ability to learn rather than cramming instruction into their heads, whether...
Ukrainian Drone Attack Sets Major Russian Oil Refinery on Fire Oil-processing, one of Russia’s most important industries, has been a target of Ukrainian drone attacks since late January.
Navy's Newest Warship Named for Fierce Marine Corps Campaign in Afghanistan The top leader of the Navy announced Thursday that the service's future amphibious ship, a landing helicopter assault vessel...