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...
'Broken and Alone': Father Pens Scathing Letter to Top Brass After Losing Airman Son to Suicide A grieving father who lost his son -- an airman at Cannon Air Force Base -- to suicide this month has written an open letter...
Space Force Reports 2 Suicides This Year, Marking the First in the Service's Short History Until this year, the relatively tiny and new Space Force had been an outlier among the other services as they have struggled...
Wi-Fi for All Bases? Navy Weighs Quality-of-Life Improvements Amid Poor Living Conditions for Sailors in Shipyards The Navy's Quality of Service Cross-Functional Team has spent the last six months trying to improve conditions for sailors at...
Veteran Suicides Ticked Upward in 2021 Following 2 Years of Decline, Latest VA Statistics Show Nearly 6,400 veterans died by suicide in 2021, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs annual report.
VA Defends Crisis Line's Special Unit After Whistleblowers Allege It's Failing Veterans "Our top priority with the VCL is to make sure that veterans get the support they need, whenever and wherever they need it --...
'The Greatest Soldier in American History' Took a Tank Round to the Leg and Kept Fighting The only reason Matt Urban didn't receive the Medal of Honor for single-handedly breaking an entire battalion through France...
4th US Soldier's Body Recovered from Lithuanian Swamp The Army has not released the names of the soldiers pending notification of the next of kin. The bodies of the other three...
How Comic Legend Mel Brooks Defused Land Mines During World War II Brooks participated in the Battle of the Bulge -- Germany's final major offensive on the Western Front -- but to his...
Pentagon Civilians Again Told They Can Resign Now, or Face Potential Firings in the Future Hegseth signed a memo Friday to restart a deferred resignation program that emerged out of billionaire Elon Musk's "Fork in...
A Gulf War Veteran Convicted of Killing His Girlfriend and 3 Children Is Set for Execution Jeffrey Hutchinson, 59, is set to die by lethal injection May 1 at Florida State Prison near the city of Starke. DeSantis, a...
