VA Rolls Out New Mental Health Scholarship as Need Increases The Department of Veterans Affairs launched a scholarship program aimed at recruiting mental health and counseling...
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.
Top Enlisted Sailor Says Service Members Should Be Able to Access Mental Health Care Without a Referral During a hearing before a House Appropriations subcommittee, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy James Honea said the...
Gun Buying Restrictions on Base Are Needed to Reduce Suicides, Pentagon Panel Says On-base stores in the U.S. sold 113,200 firearms in 2021, according to figures provided to Military.com by the exchange...
Female Soldiers Twice as Likely to Be Diagnosed with Mental Health Conditions in Theater Than Males, Study Finds Women had higher diagnostic rates than men for a dozen mental health disorders examined by Pentagon researchers.
‘Valhalla Can Wait’—The National Guard Stands at the Crossroads of Crisis As many as 44 veterans die by suicide per day, which is 2.4 times higher than the VA reported national suicide rate.
A Navy Command Tries Radical Transparency to Help Prevent the Next Suicide Historically, the Navy's approach to suicide prevention has been largely reactive.
Three More Sailors Die by Suicide While Their Carriers Are Stuck in Shipyards The suicide aboard the George Washington comes a month after the Navy released its first report on the last three suicides...
Elmo and His Sesame Street Pals Teach Military Kids How to Deal with Post-Pandemic Stress The resources focus on general aspects of wellness and how military families can tackle an already uncertain life with the...
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...
Coast Guard Ranks: A Complete Guide to Enlisted and Officer Ranks Explore U.S. Coast Guard ranks from seaman to admiral. Learn about the rank structure, pay grades, insignia, and promotion...
Prosecutors Seek to Have Ex-Green Beret Accused of Failed Venezuelan Plot Back in Custody Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to revoke the release of a former Green Beret who is accused of planning a failed...
Battle Of The Bulge Veteran Celebrates 101st Birthday With Dream Flight So, when the World War II veteran, Battle of the Bulge soldier and guard at the Nuremberg Trials, had an opportunity to fly...
Did Sherrill Violate Naval Academy’s Honor Code? Classmates Speak out About Notorious Cheating Scandal Mikie Sherrill, a New Jersey Democratic congresswoman running for governor, says she did not cheat but was penalized because...
