New Parking to Alleviate Tough Sailor Commutes at Newport News Shipyard After Spate of Suicides In the wake of a spate of suicides aboard an aircraft carrier in 2022, the Navy and Newport News Shipbuilding announced they...
Veterans Crisis Line Experiences Brief Outage Due to Phone Carrier Technical Issues A technical issue at a contractor facility in Indiana was responsible for problems with the "Press 1" connection on the 988...
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The Cost of Medical Stigmas for Military Families Decades of help-discouraging behavior and outdated medical policies have fueled a pervasive stigma that impacts military...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...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...