Pentagon Says It Will Not Restrict Gun Access to Prevent Suicide Despite Recommendations The Pentagon has decided to put its suicide prevention efforts into gun locks.
VA Launches New Ads Directed by Oscar Winner with Its 'Don't Wait. Reach Out' Campaign New ads tackle mental health and care, asking veterans why they won't seek help themselves when they readily help others.
Army Sparks Outrage with Delay of 'Brandon Act' Implementation More than two months late in implementing a policy that would give soldiers quicker access to a mental health screening, the...
After Years of Delays, Army Releases New Suicide Prevention Plan Short on Answers Three soldiers at Fort Cavazos, Texas, died by suicide in the past two weeks. But those deaths aren't unique to the...
Suicide Rates Surged Among Post-9/11 Veterans Even as Deaths Remained Steady in the General Population, Study Finds Substance use disorder, access to weapons and military-related health conditions may be responsible, researchers theorized.
Amid Deaths, Tinker Air Force Base Remains Tight-Lipped on Number of Suicides The Air Force's refusal to get into specifics on how many deaths they suspect to be suicide stems from a desire to prevent...
VA Spars with Republicans over Gun Rights for Veterans Deemed Mentally Incompetent Republicans argue the legislation is a matter of ensuring veterans receive due process before their rights to own a gun are...
How USAA’s Face the Fight Is Building a Coalition to Combat Veteran Suicide Veterans are still dying by suicide at an alarming rate, more than 16 every day, a rate 57% greater than the larger American...
Army Report Shows Increase in Suicides by Active-Duty Soldiers in 2023 Between January and March, the Army saw suicides in its active component increase from 37 in the same time frame last year to...
How 10th Mountain Is Working to Combat Suicide The Army saw a drop in suicides last year, but the issue remains a devas ting problem for the force.
Army Dramatically Expands Combat Patch Eligibility The policy shift, issued last week, covers soldiers who served in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon...
Plans for Mass VA Firings Scuttled, But Department Still Expects 30,000 Employees to Leave on Their Own The announcement walked back previous plans, first revealed in a leaked memo in March, to fire as many as 83,000 employees as...
Colonel Retaliated Against Major for Talking to Congress About Red Hill Contamination, Report Says The report said that investigators substantiated an allegation that an Air Force colonel had retaliated against Army Maj...
Air Force Academy Cutting 140 Positions; Majors Affected? As the Air Force works to cut 5,000 positions before October, the Air Force Academy expects to eliminate 140 jobs.
Mystery on Pacific Seafloor Proves to Be Part of Daring WWII Saga, US Navy Says A mysterious object spotted on the South Pacific seafloor has been identified as the bow of a torpedoed World War II ship...