Past PTSD: Reclaiming Who You Are Before his first deployment, Rick was a fun-spirited, loving husband and doting father.
Psychiatrist Honored for Treating Spec Ops Troops A Navy psychiatrist was presented the U.S. Special Operations Command Patriot Award for treating 68 Special Forces operators.
Mental Health Issues Accounted for One-Third of Military Medevacs from Middle East in 2020 Among the evacuations, 27%, or 328, were for mental health conditions, and 19% were for non-battlefield injuries.
Since 9/11, Suicide Has Claimed Four Times More Military Lives Than Combat A study estimates that 30,177 troops and veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken their own lives over the...
PTSD Myths Persist in the Military Community, New Survey Finds A poll found that members of the military community are twice as likely as civilians to believe persons with PTSD are violent...
Navy Needs More Mental Health Specialists, Top Civilian Says Sailors would get easier access to mental health providers in their own units under a new plan from Acting Navy Secretary...
Free Health Care for All Troops Is Key Priority, National Guard General Tells Congress Lack of easy access to mental health services may be compounding the suicide issue in the National Guard, its top officer...
Why We Need Mental Health Providers Who Understand the Military Should every counselor who works with military families be required to have first-hand experience of military life?
Depressed? 8 Resources for Military Spouses Finding resources to help you or your friends who are suffering from depression is not something to be ashamed of. Here are 8...
Military Deaths by Suicide Jumped 25% at End of 2020 The number of deaths by suicide among military service members increased alarmingly in the fourth quarter of 2020, according...
Trump Is Renaming 7 Army Installations. Here Are the Stories Behind the Names Being Scrubbed. President Donald Trump's announcement is the administration's latest move in its concerted effort to shift the people and...
Veteran Who Fired at Gunman and Inadvertently Killed Utah Protester Was a Safety Volunteer, Organizers Say Police said that the permit for the protest did not specify that there would be armed security, and that the role and...
Air Force Lowered Annual Recruiting Goal Due to Budget Woes, But Still on Track to Hit Target This Month The Air Force had to reduce its target recruiting goal by several thousand airmen due to ongoing congressional budget delays...
‘They’re Taking Shirly’: An Army Sergeant Thought His Family Was Safe. Then, ICE Deported His Wife. For tens of thousands of U.S. service members with undocumented family members, there’s no guaranteed protection from...
Air Force's Bunker-Buster Bomb Could Take Out Iran Nuclear Facility, But Israel Hints at Other Options The Israeli campaign to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons will be considered a failure if the centrifuges deep...
