A Suicidal Veteran Texted the VA Crisis Line. A Responder Didn't Send Help, and Minutes Later the Veteran Was Dead. A Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General investigation released last week found numerous problems with the hotline's...
Virtual Talking Circles to Prevent Suicide: Innovative App Seeks to Reach Native American Vets at Risk In 2021, the suicide rate for Native American veterans was 46.3 per 100,000, the highest of any ethnic or racial group.
VA's Veteran Suicide Prevention Algorithm Favors Men An artificial intelligence (AI) program designed to prevent suicide among U.S. military veterans prioritizes white men and...
VA Not Complying with Law on Suicide Prevention Training for Police Officers, Senator Alleges Sen. Jerry Moran demanded McDonough explain the department's lack of compliance with the law and provide a plan to "guarantee...
The Cost of Medical Stigmas for Military Families Decades of help-discouraging behavior and outdated medical policies have fueled a pervasive stigma that impacts military...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...
'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...
Tennessee Man Shot Dead After Flipping Middle Finger at War Memorial Albert Sturgill Jr., 63, was confronted by a group while gesturing at the flag and monuments at Cumberland County Veterans...
Chicago Braces for Potential National Guard Deployment Amid Trump Threats Illinois politicians are sounding an alarm and bracing for possible National Guard deployments to Chicago amid President...
9/11 Air Defense Stories You Might Not Know As hijacked planes turned into weapons on September 11, 2001, inside a quiet Air National Guard facility in upstate New York...
Is Trump's Troop Buildup in US Cities a Declaration of War — or Something Else? As President Donald Trump goads Democratic-led cities, Americans are grappling with a fundamental question of American...
Navy Demotion Reversed for GOP Congressman Who Government Watchdog Found Abused Subordinates Jackson was quietly demoted to captain in 2022, three years after his retirement from the Navy, following an inspector...