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.
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...