The Cost of Medical Stigmas for Military Families Decades of help-discouraging behavior and outdated medical policies have fueled a pervasive stigma that impacts military...
Overall Military Suicide Rate Dropped, But Active-Duty Deaths Increased Slightly, Pentagon Reports Suicide rates throughout the military decreased slightly last year, according to the latest annual data released by the...
How Trauma Before Service is Shaping a Generation of Troops Acknowledging the prevalence of pre-service trauma -- and how it affects adult service members -- can be helpful for many...
'The Keeper': Why an Army Vet Hiked the Appalachian Trail with 363 Name Tapes In the upcoming movie "The Keeper," Angus Benfield ("The Post") plays George Eshleman, an Army veteran who hikes the entire...
Pentagon Watchdog Will Assess Navy's Suicide Response and Prevention Efforts Following Spate of Deaths The investigation comes after the sea service experienced several suicide clusters aboard its ships that were undergoing...
Service Members and Vets Belonging to Racial Minority Groups Face Disproportionately High Suicide Rates The military and veterans' communities have spent years trying to combat suicide rates much higher than the national average...
Survey: More than Half of US Veterans Who Own Guns Store Them Unsafely A new survey published in the Journal of Affective Disorders finds that, although the number of veterans storing firearms...
Sailor Who Died by Suicide on Roosevelt Carrier Faced Lack of Resources, Poor Leadership by Enlisted Supervisors A Navy investigation of a suicide aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier last year has revealed deadly...
Firearm-Related Suicides Among Women Veterans Are Rising. We Must Do More on Secure Gun Storage. As gun ownership among women veterans has surged, so, too, have suicides where firearms are used.
No More Late Night Alcohol Sales: Army and Air Force Exchange Stores to Ban the Practice Next Month The change on Army and Air Force bases is meant to support the Pentagon's suicide prevention initiative, which said that...
Nomination of Air Force Officer at Center of GOP's Fight Against 'Woke' Military Extended to 2025 Col. Ben Jonsson's nomination to become a one-star general was set to expire May 1 under a law that says military officer...
Camp Lejeune Sergeant Identified as Marine Killed During Training in North Carolina Sgt. Colin Arslanbas, a Marine with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, died Thursday evening during a training...
‘Indefinite’ Defense Department IDs Inconvenience Air Travelers, May Be Dropped as Acceptable Identification The Transportation Security Administration's Credential Authentication Technology reads the cards' INDEF date field as...
Fort Liberty Soldier Sentenced to Over 3 Years for Romance Scams, Bilked Over $350,000 from Victims Specialist Sanda G. Frimpong, who was serving on active duty until his arrest in 2023, was ordered to pay back over $350,000...
Navy Chief Petty Officer Convicted of Attempted Espionage at San Diego Court-Martial The Navy has convicted a chief petty officer of attempted espionage, among other charges, at a court-martial in San Diego...